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QUESTIONS

1. Write the number 99099 in words.
   1. Ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine.
   2. Ninety thousand and ninety nine.
   3. Ninety nine thousand and ninety nine
   4. Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand and ninety nine.
2. A tea factory sold 24568 packets of milk in one day. What is the place value of digit 4?
   1. Thousands
   2. Tens
   3. Hundreds
   4. Tens of thousands
3. Find the LCM of 12, 18 and 36
   1. 6
   2. 36
   3. 12
   4. 72
4. Find the quotient of 9060 and 3
   1. 203
   2. 3020
   3. 27180
   4. 2030
5. A shopkeeper bought 4-kg of sugar. He later bought another 2-kg. How many kilograms did he buy altogether?
   1. 6½kg
   2. 6⁴/₆kg
   3. 2¹/₆kg
   4. 5⁵/₆kg
6. Which number is represented by letter x in the equation below?
   x + 9 = 24
   1. 33
   2. 15
   3. 18
   4. 23
7. Dennis was sent by his mother to buy the following items:
   Two packets of milk @sh. 60
   I loaf of bread @sh. 65
   Three pencils at sh. 60 each
   He gave the shopkeeper sh. 500 note. How much balance did he get?
   1. sh. 365
   2. sh. 235
   3. sh. 135
   4. sh. 315
8. Moses bought 19kg of meat. He later sold 8.4kg. How many kilograms remained
   1. 6.5kg.
   2. 27.4kg
   3. 10.3kg
   4. 10.6kg
9. What is the place value of digit 8 in the decimal 39.0985?
   1. Tenths
   2. Thousandths
   3. Thousands
   4. Hundredths
10. A grade 5 boy had a box with the measurements below
    
    Find the volume of the box
    1. 120cm²
    2. 24cm³
    3. 120cm³
    4. 240cm³
11. Arrange the fractions ¹/₂, ⁵/₆,¹¹/₁₂, and  ²/₃ ascending order.
    1. ¹/₂, ²/₃, ⁵/₆,¹¹/₁₂
    2.  ¹/₂,⁵/₆, ²/₃, ¹¹/₁₂
    3. ¹¹/₁₂,⁵/_6, ²/_3,¹/₂
    4.  ⁵/_6, ²/_3,¹¹/₁₂,¹/₂
12. Nyeri town had a population of 124989 people. Round off this number to the nearest thousand.
    1. 124900
    2. 130000
    3. 125000
    4. 124000
13. Find the reciprocal of 12⁵/₆ 
    1. ⁷⁷/₆ 
    2. ⁶/₇₇ 
    3. ¹²⁵/₆
    4. ⁶/₁₂₅ 
14. Work out:
    √1296 + 5² 
    
    1. 25
    2. 36
    3. 180
    4. 61
15. A school has 952 learners. Each learner was given 13 exercise books. How many exercise books were given altogether?
    1. 12476
    2. 965
    3. 95213
    4. 12376
16. Find the missing number in the equivalent fractions below
     = 63
       8     72
    1. 7
    2. 9
    3. 8
    4. 13
17. Allan scored 88% in a Mathematics test. Express his mark as a fraction in its simplest form.
    1. ⁸⁸/₁₀ 
    2. ²²/₂₅ 
    3. ⁸⁸/₁₀₀ 
    4. ⁴⁴/₅₀ 
18. Susan had 19.596kg of flour. Round off the number of kilograms to two decimal places.
    1. 20.00
    2. 19.59
    3. 19.6
    4. 19.60
19. During a Mathematics lesson 0.63 of the. learners were girls. What percentage of the learners were girls?
    1. ⁶³/₁₀
    2. 6.3
    3. 63%
    4. 0.63
20. Complete the pattern below
    70, 140, 210, 280, ________________
    1. 210
    2. 350
    3. 340
    4. 420
21. How many ½ kg packets of flour can one get from 36kg of flour?
    1. 72
    2. 18
    3. 36
    4. 12
22. A carpenter had a piece of wood measuring 73m 50cm long. It was cut into 7 equal pieces. What was the length of each piece?
    1. 10M 50cm
    2. 10M 5 cm
    3. 514M 50cm
    4. 7 M 350cm
23. What is
    (1²/₃)² ?
    1. 2⁷/₉ 
    2. ³/₅ 
    3. 1⁴/₉ 
    4. ⁹/₂₇ 
24. The distance from Bungoma to Busia is 65398m. What is the distance in kilometres and metres?
    1. 65m 398km
    2. 65km 398m
    3. 653km 98m
    4. 6km 5398m
25. In a hall, chairs are arranged in 252 rows. Each row has 42 chairs. how many chairs are there in the hall?
    1. 6
    2. 10484
    3. 10584
    4. 10574
26. A certain test took 45 minutes 30 seconds. How much time was this in seconds
    1. 2700 seconds
    2. 4530 seconds
    3. 75 seconds
    4. 2730 seconds
27. A square has a length of 28cm. What is the area of the square?
    
    
    1. 784cm
    2. 112cm² 
    3. 784cm² 
    4. 112cm
28. Using a protractor, measure angle X below.
    
    What is the measure of the angle?
    1. 95°
    2. 85°
    3. 90°
    4. 63°
29. Francis walked from home to school in the morning. Later his teacher sent him to the market to buy him a book which he took to back to school. What distance did he cover if he later went home in the evening?
    
    1. 1km 700m
    2. 3km 400m
    3. 2 km 300M
    4. 2 km 900m
30. The table below shows the number of learners from grade one to six in Bidii primary school.
    

    Grade	Number of learners
    One	46
    Two	48
    Three	42
    Four	39
    Five	41
    Six	45

    What is the total number of learners from grade one to six in the school?
    1. 222
    2. 263
    3. 219
    4. 261

MARKING SCHEME

1. C
2. A
3. B
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. D
9. B
10. C
11. A
12. C
13. B
14. D
15. D
16. A
17. B
18. D
19. C
20. B
21. A
22. A
23. A
24. B
25. C
26. D
27. C
28. A
29. B
30. D