TEST PAPER 1
SECTION A (20 MARKS)
1. State the number of significant figures in the
following numbers
A. 2 s.f
B. 5 s.f
C. 3 s.f
D. 4 s.f
2. Which one of the following represents an
increasing ratio? A. 3:5
B. 1:2
C. 9:7
D. 3:5
3. A group of people attended an event at siko
junior school. The number of men who attended
was more than 50 but less than 60. Represent this
information in form of an inequality A.
50<m>60
B. 50>m>60
C. 50>m<60
D. 50<m<60
4. Write the following number in standard form
A. 9.2×10-2
B. 92.4×10-3
C. 9.24×102
D. 9.24×10-3
5. During an election, three candidate James, Helen
and Amina got 231097, 465219 and 97657 votes
respectively. How many votes did they get
altogether?
A. 696316
B. 793973
C. 562876
D. 327754 ❑ ❑
6. Liam wrote the following number on whiteboard
during mathematics lesson. Work out the square of
the number using mathematical table 0.1681
A. 0.02825
B. 0.02825761
C. 2.825
D. 0.2825
7. The exterior number angle of a certain polygon
is 60. . How many side does the polygon have?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 4
D. 7
8. Solve:
5 1 3
. 12 ×2 3 ÷ 1 4
5
A. 12
2
B. 3
5
C. 9
1
D. 3
9. Mr Zack shared his piece of land among his four
sons Sandiki,Shukuru,Hasara, and Umoja. Sadiki
2 3 3
received 5 of the land, Shukuru 40 , Hasara 8 and
3
Umoja 20
3 2 3 3
A. , , ,
8 5 20 40
3 3 3 2
B. , , ,
40 20 8 5
3 3 2 3
C. , , ,
40 20 5 8
2 3 3 3
D. , , ,
5 8 20 40
10. The diagram below represents a flower garden
in this shape of a triangle
. C
24m
A B
What is the length of the distance metered BC?
A. 36m
B. 25m
C. 40m
D. 28m
11. Convert 98. into kelvin
A. -175.15K
B. 320.15K
C. 371.15K
D. 112K
12. Jerop ran around the track shown 3 times
22
What distance did he cover in km? (Take = 7 )
A. 1.542
B. 0.514
C. 1542
D. 514
4
13. Convert 9 as a decimal
A. 0.4
B. 0.4̇
C. 1.4
D. 0.44
14. If I divide a number by 27, the quotient is 120
and the reminder is 14. What is the number?
A. 3240
B. 340
C. 3254
D. 304.58
15. The number of lines in a part was 2548367.
What is the difference between the total values of
digits 4 an 3 in the number?
A. 4000
B. 300
C. 4300
D. 3700
16. Find the value of 0.048÷(0.64-0.48)
A. 0.3
B. 0.03
C. 0.16
D. 0.00768
17. 10 learners scored the following points in an
assessment: 8,6,10,9,11,7,8,9,12 and 9. What is
the mode of the scores?
A. 9
B. 8
C. 10
D. 7
7 4
18. Angeline had 8 kg of saalt. She used 5 of the
salt, What amount of salt did she remain with?
3
A. 40
27
B. 1
40
7
C. 10
1
D. 6
19. Which of the following numbers is divisible by
9?
A. 90919
B. 457112
C. 89000
D. 231174
20. What is the value of x in the figure below
A. 28.
B. 140.
C. 70.
D. 35.
SECTION B (80 MARKS)
21. The cash price of a refrigerator is sh 90000.
Melok bought it on hire purchase by paying a
deposit of sh 32000 and 11 equal monthly
installments of sh 6300
A. What was the hire purchase price of the
refrigerator?(3 mrks)
B. How much more than the cash price did he pay?
(2 mrks)
22. The diagram below represents a cylindrical
piece of wood of a diameter 14m and a length of
12m made by grade 8 students during artwork.
The students split the wood into half as shown
below.
What is the total surface area of the wood?(5
marks)
23. The sides of a rectangular kitchen garden are
as shown in the figure below.
A. Form two simultaneous equations from the
information represented in the diagram( 2 marks)
B. Solve the simultaneous equations by elimination
method (4 marks)
C. Work out the area of the figure(2 marks)
D. Find the length of the diagonal of the rectangle
in 2dp (2 marks)
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24. In A congregation, 5 of the attendants are
1
ladies, 3 of the reminder are men and the rest are
children, there are 60 children in the congregation.
A. Find the fraction representing the number of
children (3 marks)
B. Calculate the number of men in the
congregation ( 3 marks)
C. How many more ladies attended than the men
(4 marks)
25. A. Simplify:
x {2 }+ xy +4 x + 4 y
(x + 4)
(3 marks)
1 22
C.If v= 3 7 r {2 }ℎ , Find v ,r=14
and h=9 ( 2 marks)
26. The exterior angles of a regular polygon are
each 40.
A. Find the number of sides of the polygon.(2
marks)
B. Find the sum of the interior angles of the
polygon. (3 marks)
27. Construct a triangle PQR of sides PQ= 4cm and
angle RPQ= 45. . Construct a circle that passes
through the vertices of the triangle PQR an
measure its radius. (6 marks)
28. The population of learners in a given county is
12305219.
A. Write the number of learners in words ( 2 marks)
B. Write the number of the learners in four
significant figures. ( 2 marks)
29. Nine minibuses of the same capacity can
transport 189 people when full
A. Find the number of such minibuses required
when full to capacity to transport 336 people. (4
marks)
B. If each person paid sh 80 as bus fare, calculate
the total amount collected if 12 of such minibuses
were full to capacity to transport 336 people (4
marks)
30. Amina bought a tea estate at a cost of
sh58000000 three yrs ago. The value of the estate
appreciates at the rate of 10%per annum.
A. Find the present value of the tea estate ( 5
marks)
B. Suppose the value of the estate depreciated at
the same rate for three consecutive years, what
could be its present value? (5 marks)
31. Construct a net of a solidof side 5cm. Use the
net to find the surface area of the solid. ( 7 marks)
32. Convert the following as fractions:
A. 2.8̇ ( 2 marks)
B. 1.74˙ 2̇ ( 3 marks)
