Mathematics Questions and Answers - Grade 6 End Term 1 Exams 2023 Set 3

QUESTIONS

1. Write the number 999909 in words. 
   1. Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ten 
   2. Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and nine
   3. Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine
   4. Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety
2. There were 489126 tree seedlings in a certain farm. What is the place value of digit 8? 
   1. Tens of thousands
   2. Thousands
   3. Hundreds of thousands 
   4. Tens
3. There were 199564 learners who registered for a national competition. What is the number of learners rounded off to the nearest thousand?
   1. 199000 
   2. 199600 
   3.  200000 
   4. 199560 
4. Learners were playing number games. They picked the numbers shown in the number cards below. 
   
   Which was the second highest number? 
   1. 19108 
   2. 19018 
   3.  19810 
   4.  19801 
5. A square plot of land has a length of 89m. What is the area of the plot? 
   1. 7921m² 
   2. 356m² 
   3. 7021m² 
   4. 356m² 
6. Thika town has 39856 men, 44386 women and 64973 children. How many more adults than children are there in that town? 
   1. 84242 
   2. 149215 
   3. 109359 
   4. 19269 
7. Grade six teacher wrote the question below.
   √576 
   What is the correct answer? 
   1. 26 
   2. 144 
   3. 24 
   4. 36 
8. A dairy factory processes 3684 cartons of milk everyday. How many cartons does the factory produce in 15 days? 
   1. 3699 
   2. 55260 
   3. 22104
   4. 54720 
9. What is the next number in the pattern below 
   4, 12,36, 108, 324, _________________________
   1. 648 
   2. 972 
   3. 762 
   4. 884 
10. A company has 89 workers. The manager of the company bought 2155 gifts to share equally among workers. How many gifts remained? 
    1. 24 
    2. 29
    3. 19
    4. 2066
11. Estimate the quotient of 2496 and 48 by rounding off each of the numbers to the nearest 10 before working out.
    1. 52
    2. 119808 
    3. 125000
    4. 50 
12. Work out the operation below
    48 ÷ 6 x 9 + 19 − 54 = 
    1. 37
    2. 91
    3. 7
    4. 24
13. Grade 6 learners were asked by their teacher to give two common multiples of 12 and 9. Who gave the correct answer?
    1. Alex - 18 and 24 
    2. Joy - 24 and 36 
    3. Faith - 18 and 36 
    4. Moses - 36 and 72 
14. Mutua bought ¹/₂kg of sugar. He later added ³/₈ kg of sugar. How many kilograms of sugar did he buy in total? 
    1. ⁷/₁₆kg
    2. ⁷/₈kg
    3. ¹/₈kg
    4. 1¹/₂kg
15. What is the place value of digit 9 in the number 0.849? 
    1. Ones 
    2. Thousands 
    3.  Thousandths 
    4. Hundredths 
16. Work out: 
    18 + 0.49 = 
    1. 18.49 
    2.  0.67 
    3.  2.29 
    4. 180.49 
17. The distance from school to the market is 2km 40m. What is the distance in metres? 
    1. 240m 
    2. 2400m 
    3. 24m 
    4. 2040m 
18. One side of a cube measures 10cm. What is the volume of the cube? 
    1. 10000cm³ 
    2.  1000cm³ 
    3. 30cm³ 
    4.  100cm³ 
19. A farmer sold 20 litres of milk to a dairy company. What was the amount of milk in millilitres? 
    1. 2000ml 
    2. 200ml 
    3. 20000ml. 
    4. 20ml 
20. What is the name of the angle shown below? 
    
    1. Acute angle 
    2. Obtuse angle 
    3. Reflex angle 
    4. Right angle 
21. One sack of potatoes weighs 78kg 200g. What is the total mass of 6 sacks? 
    1. 79 kg 200g 
    2. 468kg 200g 
    3. 469kg 200g 
    4. 468kg 1200kg 
22. How many cubes have been used to make the stack below? 
    
    1. 18 
    2.  24 
    3.  9 
    4. 27 
23. Find the LCM of 15, 20 and 30 
    1. 60 
    2. 90 
    3. 5 
    4. 120 
24. How many ½ litre packets of milk can one get from 10 litres? 
    1. 5 
    2. 20
    3. 10 
    4. 40 
25. Change ⁶¹/₃ into a mixed number. 
    1. 2¹/₃
    2. 1³/₂₀
    3. 20¹/₃
    4. 3¹/₂₀
26. Work out: ¹/₅ + ⁶/₇ =
    1. 1²/₃₅ 
    2. ⁷/₁₂
    3. ²³/35 
    4. ⁵/₁₂
27. Which of the fractions below is equivalent to ²/₅?
    1. ⁴/₂₀
    2. ²/₁₅
    3. ¹⁰/₄ 
    4. ⁸/₂₀ 
28. Arrange the fractions ²/₃, ¹/₂, ³/₄ and ³/₅ in ascending order. 
    1. ¹/₂, ³/_5, ²/_3, ³/₄ 
    2.  ³/_4, ²/_3, ³/_5,¹/_2, 
    3.  ¹/_2, ²/_3, ³/_4, ³/_5, 
    4.  ³/_4, ²/_3, ¹/_2, ³/_5, 
29. A farmer had y goats. He later added 17 more goats. If the farmer had a total of 22 goats, how many goats did he have at the beginning? 
    1. 39 
    2.  5 
    3. 10 
    4. 12 
30. What is the name of the 3-D object shown below?
     
    1. Cuboid 
    2. Cylinder
    3. Pyramid 
    4. Sphere 

MARKING SCHEME

1. B
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. A
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12. A
13. D
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20. D
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30. B