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MATHEMATICS
PAPER 2
MARCH 2024
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TIME: 2 HOURS
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GANGRE MIXED SECONDARY SCHOOL

END OF TERM ONE EXAMINATION, 2024
FORM FOUR
MATHEMATICS
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your name, admission number, date of examination and sign in the spaces provided.
2. This paper consists of two sections; Section I and Section II.
3. Answer ALL the questions in Section I and ONLY FIVE questions in Section II.
4. All answers and working must be written on the question paper in the spaces provided
below each question.
5. Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answer at each stage in the space
provided below each question.
6. Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
7. Non programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC mathematical tables may be
used except where stated otherwise.
8. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing.
FOR EXAMINORS USE ONLY
SECTION I
Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 TOTAL

Marks

SECTION II
Question 1 18 19 20 2 22 23 24 TOTAL
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Marks

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 Grand Total

SECTION I (50 Marks)

Answer all questions in the spaces provided in this section.
1. Use logarithms to evaluate

2347 x 0. 46662
3
√ 0. 0924 (4mks)

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2. Simplify; + leaving the answer in the form a + b√ c , where a, b and c are
√7−2 √7
rational numbers (3mks)

3. (a) Expand and simplify the binomial expression (2 + x)5 up to the term in x3.
(2mks)

(b) Use your expression to estimate (1.97)5 correct to 4 s.f (2mks)

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4. Make b the subject of the formula. (3mks)

2bc
a=
√ b2 − 3d

5. Solve for x

2
[ log 2 x ] + log 2 8 = log 2 x 4 (3mks)

6. The base and perpendicular height of a triangle measured to the nearest centimeter are
6cm and 4cm respectively. Find
(a) The absolute error in calculating the area of the triangle. (2mks)

(b) The percentage error in the area giving the answer to 1 decimal place.
(1mk)

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7. An investor invested his money in a bank that gives compound interest of 12% p.a
compounded quarterly. If he invested Kshs 16800 for 2 years and then withdraws all
the money at the end of the 2 years, how much interest does he get? (3mks)

8. Given that P varies directly as V and inversely as the cube of R and that P = 12 when
V = 3 and R = 2,
(a) Find an equation connecting P, V and R. (3mks)

(b) Find the value of V when P = 10 and R = 1.5 (1mk)

9. Two grades of coffee, one costing sh.42 per kilogram and the other costing sh.47 per
kilogram are to be mixed in order to produce a blend worth sh.46 per kilogram. In
what proportion should they be mixed? (3mks)

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10. Solve the following simultaneous equations using matrix method (4mks)

3 x−4 y=2
3 x+5 y=13

11. Find the value of y in the figure below. (2mks)

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Evaluate ∫−1
( 2 x2−3 x−14 ) dx
12. (3mks)

13. Find the Centre and the radius of a circle whose equation is
5 2 5 2 20
x + y =10 x− y +5
3 3 3 (3mks)

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14. A dam containing 4158m3 of water is to be drained. A pump is connected to a pipe of
radius 3.5cm and the machine operates for 8 hours per day. Water flows through the
pipe at the rate of 1.5m per seconds. Find the number of days it takes to drain the
dam. (3mks)

9 a2 y − 16 b 2 y 3
4 by 2 − 3 ay
15. Simplify completely (3mks)

16. In the figure below lines ABC and DC are tangents to the circle at B and D
respectively. Angle ACD = 40 and angle ABE = 60.

E 40º C

60º
A
B

Find the size of angle:

(a) CBD (1mk)

(b) BDE (1mk)

(c) BED (1mk)

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 SECTION I (50 Marks)
Answer any FIVE questions in the spaces provided in this section
17. The table below shows the mark scored by students in a maths exam.

Class 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 – 59 60 – 69 70 – 79 80 – 89

No. of students 3 17 27 23 8 2

(a) Draw a cumulative frequency curve for the data above (3mks)

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(b) Use your graph to find
(i) The median (1mk)

(ii) The quartile deviation (2mks)

(iii) The number of students who scored above 67. (1mk)

(c) Use an assumed mean of 64.5 to calculate the standard deviation of the above
data. (3mks)

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18. In a triangle ABC, AB = 17cm, BC = 28cm and AC = 34cm.

(a) Find:-
(i) ¿BAC (3mks)

(ii) Using the angle BAC in (a) (i) above, find the area of triangle ABC.
(2mks)

(iii) The radius of the circumcircle that can be drawn on the triangle.
(2mks)

(b) A stone is hung from a horizontal beam by two strings. The longer string
makes an angle of 420 with the horizontal and is 3.2m long. If the shorter
string makes an angle of 600 with the horizontal, calculate its length.
(3mks)

420 600

3.2m

Stone

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19. In the figure below, VABCD is a right pyramid on a rectangular base. Point O is
vertically below the vertex V. AB = 12cm, BC = 5cm and VA = VB = VC = VD =
18cm.
V

18 CM

D C

5 CM
O

A B
12 CM
Calculate
(a) The height VO
(3mks)

(b) The angle between

(i) VC and the plane ABCD (3mks)

(ii) The planes VAB and ABCD (2mks)

(iii) The planes VAD and VBC (2mks)

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20. In the triangle PQR below L and M are points on PQ and QR respectively such that
PL: LQ = 1:3 and QM:MR 1:2. PM and RL intersect at X. Given that PQ = b and
PR = c

(a) Express the following vectors in terms of b and c.

(i) QR (1mk)

(ii) PM (1mk)

(iii) RL (1mk)

(b) By taking PX = hPM and RX = kRL, where h and k are constants, find two
expressions of PX in terms of h, k, b and c. Hence determine the values of the
constants h and k. (6mks)

(c) Determine the ratio LX: XR (1mk)

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21. The table below shows monthly income tax rates for a certain year.

Income, k£ p.m Rate of tax, shs per £

1 – 342 2
343 – 684 3
685 – 1026 4
1027 – 1368 5
1369 – 1710 6
Over 1710 7
A civil servant earns a salary of Ksh.42,000 and is provided with a house at a nominal
rent of Ksh.1500 per month.
(a) Taxable income is the employee’s salary plus 15% of the salary less nominal
rent. Calculate the civil servants taxable income in k£ p.m (2mks)

(b) If the employee is entitled to a personal relief of Ksh.900p.m, what is his

PAYE? (5mks)

(c) The following deductions are also made from his monthly pay; NHIF
Ksh.630; WCPS – Ksh. 540, union dues Ksh. 330; SACCO loan recovery –
Ksh. 7,000, co-operatives shares – Ksh.2500. Calculate his net pay (3mks)

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22. Auma, Hassan and Kamau competed in a game of darts. Their probabilities of hitting
the target are 2/5, 1/5 and 3/10 respectively.

(a) Draw a probability tree diagram to show all the possible outcomes. (2mks)

(b) Calculate the probability that

(i) No one hit the target. (2mks)

(ii) Only one of them hit the target. (2mks)

(iii) At least one of them hit the target. (2mks)

(iv) At least one of them missed the target. (2mks)

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23. Mr Mulei saved Kshs. 2,000 during the first year of employment. In each subsequent
year, he saved 15% more than the previous year, until he retired.
(a) How much did he save in the third year? (2mks)

(b) How many years did he take to save Kshs. 58,000 to the nearest 1d.p?
(3mks)

(c) How much had he saved after 20 years of service to the nearest 1d.p?
(3mks)

(d) If he had save equal amounts per year in the 20 years of service, how much
would he have to save per year to the nearest 1d.p? (2mks)

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24. A company wishes to buy two types of squash machines; electric and manual. A
manual machine requires 4 attendants where as an electric one requires two. An
electric machine fills 300 packets per hour; a manual one can fill 200 packets per
hour. At least 3000 packets need to be filled per hour and the number of attendants
should not exceed 40.
(a) Write down inequalities to describe these conditions and graph them.
(7mks)

(b) If for every hour it is used, an electric machine brings a profit of shs 200 and a
manual one is shs 500, determine the number of machines of each type that
should be installed in order to maximize profit per hour. (1mk)

(c) Find the maximum profit. (2mks)

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