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LUGULU GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL
END YEAR HOLIDAY 2025
MATHEMATICS
FORM 2
MATHEMATICS
FORM 2 END YEAR HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
DECEMBER ASSIGNMENT 2025
PAPER ONE Instructions to Candidates
Write your name and admission number in the spaces provided above.
Write the name of your school and sign in the spaces provided above.
This paper consists of two sections: Section I and Section II.
Answer all questions in section I and only five questions from section II.
Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces provided
below each question.
Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
Non-programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC mathematics tables may be used, except
where stated otherwise.
FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY
Section I
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total
Section II
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total
SECTION I (attempt all questions)
1. Use logarithm tables in all your steps to evaluate:
leaving your answer to four decimal places (4mks)
3 38.32 x
12.964
86 37 x 6 285
2. When a certain number x is divided by 30, 45 or 54, there is always a remainder of 21.
Find the least value of the number x (3mks)
3. Find the value of x (3mks)
(x-3) (x+2)
2 x8 = 128
4. Evaluate without using a calculator (3mks)
3 5 2
1
7 8 3
3 5 4 1
1 of 2
4 7 7 3
5. Without using tables and calculators, evaluate
0 . 032 0 . 0608
3
(3mks)
1 . 28 0 . 4
6. Use tables of squares, square roots and reciprocals to evaluate correct to 4 s.f
3 - 2 (3mks)
0.0136 (3.72)
2
7. Simplify the following expressions by reducing it to a single fraction
2x - 5– 1 - x – x - 4
4 3 2 (3mks)
8. Foreign exchange on 27/5/2010 was given as follows:
Currency Buying (Kshs) Selling (Kshs)
1 Euro 84.15 84.26
1 Sterling 118.35 121.47
pound
A tourist came to Kenya from London with 6000 Euros which he converted to Kenya
shillings at a bank. While in Kenya he spent a total of Kshs.300,000 then converted the balance
into sterling pounds at the Same bank.
Calculate the amount in sterling pounds he received (4 mks)
9. Sixteen men working at the rate of 9hrs a day can complete a piece of work in 14 days.
How many more men working at the rate of 7 hours a day would complete the same job in 12
days?(3mks)
10. Solve the equation;(3mks)
x+1 2x + 1
9 +3 = 36
11, A triangle ABC is formed by the points A (3,4), B (-7,2), and C (1,-2).
(a) Find the coordinates of the mid-points k of AB and p of AC (1 mk)
(b) Find the equation of the perpendicular bisector of the line kp (2 mks)
12. Two similar cans have different heights 8cm and the other one 10cm. If the surface area of the
2
larger can is 480cm , find the surface area of the smaller can.
(3 marks)
[Link] the value of x that satisfies the equation log (2x – 11) – log 2 =log 3 – log x(3 marks)
14. A metal hemisphere of radius 12cm is melted done and recast into the shape of a cone
of base radius 6cm. Find the perpendicular height of the cone (3mks)
15,Solve the inequality and show the solution on the number line.(3mks)
3 – 2x x 2x + 5
16 .The angle of elevation of the top of a tree from a point P on the horizontal ground is24.5°.
From another point Q, five metres nearer to the base of the tree, the angle of elevation of
the top of the tree is 33.2°. Calculate to one decimal place, the height of the tree (3mks)
.
SECTION II (attempt any five)
[Link] and Mkimwa entered into a business partnership in which they contributed ksh.
120,000 and
ksh 150,000 every year respectively. After one year, Kuku joined the business and contributed ksh.
90,000.
(a)Calculate the ratio of their investment after 3 years of business (3mks)
(b)It was agreed that 30% of the profits after 3 years be used to cater for the cost of running the
business, while the remaining would be shared proportionally. Calculate each person’s
share, if the profit made after three years was ksh. 187,000 (4mks)
(c)If each of them invested their shares back in the business, find their new individual
investments at the beginning of the fourth year (3mks)
18 .A square floor is fitted with rectangular tiles of periemeter 220 cm. each row (tile length wise)
carries 20 less tiles than each column (tiles breadth wise). If the length of the floor is 9.6 m.
Calculate:
a. The dimensions of the tiles (6 marks)
b. The number of tiles needed (2 marks)
c. The cost of fitting the tiles, if tiles are sold in dozens at sh. 1500 per dozen and the
labour cost is sh. 3000 (2 marks)
[Link] town P,Q and R are such that P is on a bearing of 120° and 20 km from Q. Town R is on
o
bearing of 220 and 12km from P
a) Using a scale of 1 cm to 2 km, draw and locate the positions of the three towns. (3mks)
b) Measure
i) the distance between Q and R in kilometres. (2mks)
ii)the bearing of P from R. (1mk)
iii)the bearing of R from Q. (2mks)
c)Calculate the area of the figure bounded by PQR. (2mks)
[Link] information below shows the entries in a surveyor’s field book after a survey of a farm.
XY = 280m is the baseline. All measurements are in metres
280 Y
B 105 230 110E
190
160 45E
A 100 90
40 95G
X O
(a) Use a scale of 1cm represents 20m to draw the map of the farm (5mks)
(b) Estimate the area of the farm in hectares (5mks)
21. Triangle PQR has vertices P(3,2), Q(-1,1) and R(-3,-1).
(a) Draw PQR on the grid provided. (USE YOUR OWN GRAGH PAPER)
(1mk)
1 1 1 1 1 1
(b) Under a rotation the vertices of P Q R are P (1,4), Q (2,0) and R (4,-1). Find the centre
and angle of rotation using points P and Q.
(4mks)
2 2 2
(c) Triangle PQR is enlarged with scale factor 3 centreO(0,0) to give triangle P Q R . Draw
2 2 2
triangle P Q R and state its co-ordinates.
(2mks)
1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3
(d) Triangle P Q R undergoes reflection in line y = -x to give triangle P Q R . Draw P Q R
and state its coordinates.
22 The results of a mathematics test that a hundred students took are as shown below:-
Marks No. of
students
30-34 4
35-39 6
40-44 10
45-49 14
50-54 X
55-59 24
60-64 14
65-69 6
(a) Determine
(i) the value of X (1mk)
(ii) The modal class(2mks)
(b) Calculate the mean(4mks)
(c) The median (3mks)
[Link] the figure below PQR and S are points on the circumference of a circle centre O. The point
TSO and Q lie on a straight line MPT is a tangent to the circle at P.
Find the values of the following angles stating reasons in each case.
(a) SRP (2mks)
(b) ORP (2mks)
(c) RPT (2mk)
(d) STP (2mks)
(e) QPM (2mks)
24.A country bus left Nairobi at 10.45a.m and traveled towards Mombasa at an average speed of
60km/h. A matatu left Nairobi at 1:15p.m on the same day and traveled along the same road at an
average speed of 100km/h. The distance between Nairobi and Mombasa is 500km.
(a) Determine the time of the day when the matatu overtook the bus (5mks)
(b) Both vehicles continue towards Mombasa at their original speeds. How long had the
matatuwaited before the bus arrived? (5mks)
