STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL ZZANA
S.2 MATHEMATICS TEST 1
Duration: 1&20 Minutes
Instructions
Attempt all questions
Section A
1. A company selling newspapers spends shs . 1500 to produce a copy of the newspaper and
sell it at shs . 2000. On a given day, the company produced 3000 copies and managed to sell
only 2500 copies.
i) Did the company m,ake a loss or a profit on that day
ii) Calculate the percentage loss or profit for that day. (4 marks)
2. James borrowed shs . 1200000 shillings from the bank on an understanding of paying the
money back with the interest. If the bank charges a simple interest at a rate of 10 % per
annum. What is the simple interest that James pays after one year?
iii) If he decides to pay back after 3.5 years, how much money will he pay back in total
(4 marks)
3. Workout the value of the angles x, y and w in the figures below.
b)
Kayesu knows that one of the angles in an isosceles triangle is 48 0. She says that one of the other
angles must be 66 0. Explain why Kayesu is wrong. (6 marks)
4. Twice the sum of a number and 4 is the same as four times the number decreased by 12.
Find the number (4 marks)
5. A school conducted a survey to know the favourite sports of the students. The table below
shows the results of this survey
Sport Number of students
Swimming 30
Basketball 16
Football 24
Chess 12
Table tenis 8
Bad minton 10
Draw a bar graph representing the sports and the number of students. (6 marks)
6. In Karo secondary school, one learner’s book is used by 3 students in a math lesson.
Use this information to fill in the missing values in the table. (4 marks)
Stream Number of learners Number of learner’s books used in lesson
S.2 A 96 _______
S.2 B _________ 31
S.2C 87 _________
S.2 D _____________ 33
SECTION B
7. Kaziba walks 800 m on a bearing of 055 0. He then walks on a bearing on a bearing of 3150
until he is due north of his starting point and the stops.
a) Using a scale of 1 cm to represent 100 m , draw an accurate diagram to show Kaziba’s
routes.
b) How far does he walk on the bearing of 3150
c) How far is Kaziba at this point from the starting point. (7 marks)
8. Construct a rhombus of sides 7 cm and an interior angle of 45 0. (5 marks)
