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MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1
TIME: 2½ HOURS

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MODEL 2
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1
TIME: 2½ HOURS

INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATE’S:
1. Write your name, index number and school in the spaces provided at the top of this page.
2. Sign and write the date of examination in spaces provided above.
3. This paper consists of two Sections; Section I and Section II.
4. Answer all the questions in Section I and any FIVE questions from Section II.
5. All answers and working must be written on the question paper in the spaces provided
below each question.
6. Show all the steps in your calculation, giving your answer at each stage in the spaces
provided below each question.
7. Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
8. Non-programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical tables
may be used, except where stated otherwise.
9. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed
as indicated and that no questions are missing.

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 GRAND TOTAL

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 SECTION I (50 Marks)
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided.
1. Without using a calculator evaluate. (3mks)
 16  36  4 17  5
18   6  10 8

2. A farmer has two water tanks, one of capacity 200 litres and the other 360 litres. The farmer uses
the same container to fill each of the two tanks in an exact number of times. Find the least
possible number of times it would take to fill both tanks. (3mks)

3. The size of an interior angle of a reqular polygon is 3 ½ times that of its exterior angle. Determine
the sum of the interior angles of this polygon. (4mks)

4. A solid metal pyramid has a square abase of side 3 cm and a mass of 54kg. Find the mass of a
similar pyramid whose base is a square of side 6 cm. (3mks)

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5. Simplify fully the expression (3mks)
6 x 2  9 xy  6 y 2
8x 2  2 y 2

6. The triangle ABC below has dimensions as shown.

(a) Calculate to 4 significant figures, the area of the triangle (3mks)

(b) Find to one decimal place the length of the perpendicular from A to BC. (2mks)

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7. Find the value of x in the equation (3mks)
36 x1  6 2 x  222

5
8. The position vectors of P and Q with respect to the origin   respectively. Point T lies on
 1
PQ such that 3PT = PQ. Determine the coordinates of T. (3mks)

9. On the line AB below and using ruler and compasses only

(i) Construct a triangle ABC such that angle CAB = 750 and AC = 5 cm. (2mks)

(ii) A point X is equivalent from lines AC and A B and AX = BX. Locate X. (2mks)

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10. The equation of a line L1 is x  3 y  6. Find the equation of a line perpendicular to L1 which
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passes through 1,2  . (3mks)

11. Find the range of values of x which satisfy the inequalities (3mks)
1
x  2 x  7  14  x
3

12. An open cylindrical concrete water tank has an external diameter of 1.2m and an external height
of 1.5m. The thickness of the concrete is 8cm. Calculate the volume of the concrete is 8cm.
Calculate the volume of the concrete making the tank. Give your answer in m3. (4mks)

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13. A Japanese tourist visiting Kenya charged 1,307,000 Yen into Kenya shillings. While in Kenya he
spent Ksh. 560,000 and converted the rest to sterling pounds as he headed back to the U.K.
Calculate the amount he got to the nearest pound if the bank buys and sells currency as shown
below. (3mks)
Buying (Ksh) Selling (Ksh)
100 Yen 65.35 66.01
1 sterling pound 126.95 127.31

14. On a market day, Amina bought 2 bags of potatoes and 3 bags of carrots at a total cost of sh.
3,450. Wanja bought 3 bags of potatoes and 2 bags of carrots but paid sh. 150 less than Amina.
Find the cost of 1 bag of each item. (3mks)

15. Find the reciprocal of 2.095 using the tables of reciprocals. (1mk)

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Hence evaluate without using mathematical tables or calculator. (1mk)
20.95

16. Given Sin 2 x 0  Cos 3x  10 0  , find the value of x. (2mks)

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 SECTION II (50 Marks)
Answer only Five questions in this section in the spaces provided.
17. Mr. Kamau, a salesman is paid a commission of 6% on goods worth over sh. 600,000. In addition
he is paid a monthly salary of sh. 35,000.
(a) Calculate his total earnings in a month when his total sales was sh. 750,000. (3mks)

(b) In the following month, the rate of commission was changed to x% but his monthly salary
remained the same. If Mr. Kamau received a total monthly earning of sh. 100,000 for
selling goods worth the same amount, find the value of x. (3mks)

(c) If the rate of commission in (b) above was reduced in the ration 3:4 and his monthly
increased by 10%, find the percentage change in his total monthly earnings for selling the
same amount of goods. (4mks)

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18. The frequency table below shows the masses in kg of 200 animals in a herd.
Mass (kg) 0-5 5-15 15-25 25 -45 45 - 75
Number of animals 16 44 48 56 36

(a) Find the size of the modal class. (2mks)

(b) Calculate the mean mass. (4mks)

(c) On the grid below, draw a histogram to represent the above information. (4mks)

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19. The points A 2,  1 B (8,2) , C (7,5) and D are the vertices of a parallelogram ABCD. Use the
vector method to find.

(a) (i) The coordinates of point D (3mks)

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(ii) the coordinates of E such that AE  AB (2mks)
~ 3 ~

(iii) the coordinates of F such that AF  2 DA (2mks)

~ ~

(b) Show that points C, E and F are collinear. (3mks)

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20. Rectangle ABCD has the vertices A(2,1), B (5,1), C(5,3) and D (2,3). A1B1C1D1 is the image of
ABCD under a rotation of - 900 about (0,0).

(a) Draw ABCD and A1B1C1D1 on the grid provided. (3mks)

(b) A11B11C11D11 is the image of A1B1C1D1 under a reflection I the line y = -x.

(i) Draw A11B11C11D11 on the same grid. (3mks)

(ii) State the coordinates of the invariant points of A1B1C1D1 under this reflection.

(1mk)

(c) Describe fully a single transformation that maps

(i) A1B1C1D1 onto ABCD. (2mks)

(ii) A11B11C11D11 onto ABCD. (1mk)

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21. A lamp shade is in the form of an open – ended frustum of a cone. Its bottom and top diameters
are 14cm and 7cm respectively. Its height is 10cm.

(a) Find

(i) the height of the cone from which the frustum was cut. (2mks)

(ii) the area of the curved surface of the lamp shade. (5mks)

Use   3.142

(b) The material used for making the lamp shade is sold at sh. 800 per square metre. Find the
cost of ten lampshades if a lampshade is sold at twice the cost of the material. (3mks)

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22. The distance between tours X and Y is 320km. A car and a lorry started from X at the same time
and travelled towards Y. The car travelling at an average speed of 20km/h higher than that of the
lorry reached r 48 minutes earlier than the lorry.

(a) If the speed of the lorry is t km / h , find the value of t. (6mks)

(b) If the two vehicles left town X at 8. 15 a.m, determine the time the ca arrived at town Y.
(4mks)

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23. Two aeroplanes P and Q leave airport at the same time, P flies on a bearing of 0750 at 800 km/h.
While Q flies on a bearing of 1500 at 1000 km\h.

(a) Using a scale of 1 cm to represent 100km, draw a diagram to show the positions of the
aeroplanes after 45 minutes. (4mks)

(b) Use your scale drawing to determine

(i) the distance between the two aeroplanes after 45 minutes. (2mks)

(ii) The bearing of P from Q. (1mk)

(c) By further construction on the same diagram determine how far Q is to east of P. (3mks)

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24. The figure below is a sketch of the curve y  x 2  4 .

(a) Using he trapezoidal rule with six strips estimate the area bounded by the curve, the x-axis
and the lines x = -2 and x = 4. (4mks)

(b) Calculate the area in (a) above by integration. (4mks)

(c) Assuming the area found by integration is exact, calculate the percentage error in using the
trapezoidal rule. (2mks)

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