FORM FOUR TRIAL 2, 2019

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

121/1 MATHEMATICS
PAPER ONE
TIME: 2½HRS
Instruction: Attempt ALL Questions in Section I and any FIVE in section II
SECTION 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total

SECTION 2
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 GRAND
TOTAL

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 SECTION I (50Mrks)
Answer ALL the Questions in the section
1. Evaluate: 3mks
1 3 1
2 𝑜𝑓 1 − 5
2 4 4
2 1 3
1 + 2(1 − 2 )
5 4 4

2. An electrician made a loss of 30% by selling a multi plug at Sh. 1400. What profit
would he have made if he sold the multi plug at sh 2300. 3mks

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 12𝑥 4 𝑦 −1 𝑧 5
3. Simplify √ 2mks
3𝑥 −2 𝑦 −3 𝑧 3

4. Solve the following inequalities and represent the solutions on a number line
X + 1≤ 4x – 5< 3x + 2

5. The figure below shows a net of a solid.

a. Sketch the solid of the net showing the hidden edges with broken lines. 2mks

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 b. Find the surface area of the solid. 2mks

6. Determine the quartile deviation for the following distribution. 3mks

3,4,9,5,4,7,6,2,1,6,7,8,9

7. Given that 23/2x = 4096, find the value of x 2mks

8. It would take 15men 8days to dig a trench of 240m long. Find how many days it
would take 18men to dig a trench 360meters long working at the same rate.
3mks

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9. Use logarithms to evaluate. 4mks

3 0.921 𝑥 0.00739
√
0.023

10. A regular polygon is such that its exterior angle is one eighth the size of interior
angle. Find the number of sides of the polygon. 3mks

𝑥−1
11. A translation vector ( ) maps a point A(4,6) onto AI(9,12). Find the value of
2−𝑦
x and y. 3mks

12. A Canadian tourist arrived in Nairobi with Canadian dollars 6200. She converted
all his money into Kenya Shillings and then spent a total of Kshs. 100,000. She

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 paid her Kenyan tour guide a commission equivalent to 20% of the remainder.
Given that 1 canadian dollar = Ksh. 48.12. calculate
A. How much she got in kenya shillings after converting all her money. 1mk

B. The amount of kenya shillings she was left with at the end. 2mks

13. In the figure below <A=62°, <B = 42°, BC = 8.4cm and CN is a bisector of angle
ACB. Calculate to 1dp the length of CN. 3mks

14. A father is now four times as old as his son. Five years ago, he was exactly one
year and half times as old as his son will be in ten years from now. Determine
the sum of their present ages. 4mks

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15. An arc length of 11cm subtends an angle of 140° at the circle. Find the area of
the enclosed sector. 4mks

16. Factorize and simplify the expression. 3mks

𝑥 2 + 6𝑥 + 9
𝑥2 − 9

SECTION II (50 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions from this section
17. The triangle ABC with coordinates A(2,3), B(4,2) and C(1,1) is mapped onto
triangle A1B1C1 by a reflection in the line y + x = 0.
a. (i) Draw triangle ABC and its image A1B1C1on the same plane. 3mks

(ii) Triangle A1B1C1 is mapped onto A11B11C11 by a transformation

0 1
represented by the matrix. ( )
−1 0
Draw triangle A11B11C11 and describe fully a single transformation that maps
triangle ABC onto triangle A11B11C11 4mks

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 b. Triangle ABC is mapped onto xyz with A being mapped onto x, B onto Y and C
onto Z. given that the coordinates of x is (-4,3), Y is (0,2) and Z is (-1,1), find
the matrix representing the transformation. 3mks

18. A lorry left town A for B at 6.50pm at an average speed of 60km/h. at 8.35pm, a
car left tow A for B at an average speed of 90km/h. if A is 317km from B.
determine:
a. The distance of the lorry from town A when the car took off. 3mks

b. The distance the car travelled to catch up with the lorry. 4mks

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 c. What time of the day did the car catch up with the lorry? Give your answer in
24hrs system. 3mks

19. Three ships X, Y and Z are approaching a habour H. X is 150km from the habour
on a bearing of O90°. Y is 130km from the habour on a bearing of 130°E and Z is
180km to the west of Y.
a) Taking a scale of 1cm to represent 20km, make a scale drawing of the routes
of the three ships to the habour. 2mks

b) What is the distance between ships X and Z? 2mks

c) Find the bearing of H from Z. 2mks

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 d) If ship Y is travelling at a speed of 50km/h how long will it take to reach the
harbor. 2mks

20. The figure below shows a triangle OAB with O as the origin. OA=a OB = b, OM
2/5a and ON = 2/3b.

a) Express in terms of a and b the vectors

(i) BM 1mk

(ii) AN 1mk

b) Vector OX can be expressed in two ways: OB + KBM or OA + hAN, where K

and h are constants.
Express OX in terms of:

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 i. a, b and k. 2mks

ii. a, b and h. 2mks

c) find the valuesof k and h. 4mks

21. in a certain meeting, there were 95men in attendance. There were 50 more
women than men and twice as many children as men.
a. Determine the number of people in attendance. 2mks

b. Find the percentage of children in attendance, correct to 3 significant

figures. 2mks

c. A hall for the meeting was fitted with benches that could accommodate
eighher 10 children or 7 adults per bench.
Find the number of benches
i. Used by the children 2mks

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 ii. Completely filled by the adults. 2mks

iii. Adults who would fill the unoccupied space. 2mks

22. a) The point A(-2, 4) and B(3,-6) lies on a straight line AB, find
(i) the equation of the line perpendicular to AB and passing through A 3mks

(ii) The equation of the line parallel to AB and passing through the point.
(3,-1). 3mks

b) The points A and B are translated by a vector

2
M=( ). Find
−1
(i) the images of A and B. 2mks
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 (ii) the equation of the line passing through A1 and B1 the images of A and B
respectively. 2mks

23. the figure below represents a solid made up of a conical frustum and a
hemispherical top. The slant height of the frustum is 8cm and its base radius is
4.2cm.

4.2cm
If the radius of the hemispherical top is 3.5cm
a. Find the area of:
i. The circular base 2mks

ii. The curved surface area of frustum. 4mks

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 iii. The hemispherical surface 2mks

b. A similar solid has a total surface area of 81.5cm2. determine the radius of
the base. 2mks

24. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses, construct parallelogram ABCD such that
AB = 8cm, diagonal AC = 12cm and angle BAC = 22.5° 4mks

a) Measure (i) The diagonal BD 1mk

(ii) The angle ABC 1mk

b) Draw the circumference of triangle ABC 2mks

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 c) Calculate the area of the circle drawn 2mks

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