PRIMARY LEAVING EXAMINATION

2019
MATHEMATICS
Time Allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Random No. Personal No.

I I
Index No.

m
I' I
I I
I
I
i
I
i I

o
Candidate's Name: ..........................................................................................................

.c
Candidate,s Signature: ...................................................................................................
School Random No. ..........................................................................................................

Read the following instructions carefully: i ,, FOR EXAMINERS'

rs
District ID: .........................·...........................................;·:� .................................................
e
ap
1. Do not write your school or district name i USE ONLY
■ i Qn. No. MARKS · EXR'S
anywhere on this paper. '
I i NO.
tp

2. This paper has two sections: A and B.

Section A has 20 questions and section B 1-5
as

has 12 questions. The paper has 16

I
l

printed pages.
;
6-10

I
j
3. Answer all questions. AU the working for 11-15
p

both sections A and B must be shown in the I

eb

!
spaces provided. 16-20
!
4. All working must be done using a blue or
t I

black ball point pen or ink. Any work done

I
I
21-22
I
un

in pencil other than graphs and diagrams i

will not be marked.
i
' 23-24
I
5. No calculators are allowed in the I 25-26
examination room.
I
1

I 27-28
6. Unnecessary changes in your work and
handwriting that cannot easily be read may i 29-30
lead to loss of marks.
i 31-32
7. Do not fill anything in the table indicated:
"For Examiners' use only" and boxes
TOTAL
I
i

inside the question paper.

I

1 Turn Over
 SECTION A: 40 MARKS
Answer all the questions in this section
Questions 1 to 20 carry two marks each

1. Work out: 534

-123

om
2. Write XCVII in Hindu Arabic numerals.

.c
rs
pe
3. Simplify: 3p + p- 2 p
pa
st
pa
eb

4. . In the Venn diagram below, shade the region (Su T)'

un

2
5. Round off 53.86 to the nearest tenth.

D
6. Using a pair of compasses, a pencil and a ruler only, construct a
perpendicular from point C onto the line segment AB below.

om
.c
rs
pe
A B
pa
st
pa

7. Change 250 grammes into kilogrammes.

eb
un

3
Turn Over
 *
** *
8. Given that * represents 26 girls in a class and represents 20 boys

in the class, find the total number of pupils represented by

om
9. Solve: 3 + m = 2(finite 5)

.c
rs
pe
pa

10. In the diagram below, find the value of bin degrees.

st
pa
eb
un

D
4
11. Find the next number in the sequence:

58, 33, 17, 8,

12. Calculate the speed of a motorist who covered a distance of

210 kilometres in 21 hours.

om
.c
rs
pe
pa

13. Change Sten to binary system.

st
pa
eb

14. Find the smallest number that can be divided by 8 or 12 and leaves 5 as
un

the remainder.

5 Tum over
15. A teacher deposited sh 72,000 in a bank. After one year, the teacher
earned a simple interest of sh 3,600. Calculate the simple interest rate
of the bank.

om
D
.c
16.
rs
Study the coordinate graph below and use it to answer the questions
pe
that follow:

" ' , y-axis

pa

..
st
pa

1
-
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 4 x-axis
eb

-1
-2
un

-3

-4,,

(a) Write the coordinates of point G.

(b) Plot the point H(-3,0) on the coordinate graph.

6
17. A train left station Kat 11 38 hours and reached station Mat
14 27 hours. How long did the train take to travel from Kto M?

18. Find the solution set for k + 2 < 6.

om
.c
rs
pe
19. A shopkeeper bought 19 plates at sh 34,200. At what price must the
shopkeeper sell each plate in order to raise a profit of sh 3,800?
pa
st
pa
eb

20. Mawa built a circular hut of circumference 66 metres using poles. The
un

poles were fixed at intervals of 1.5 metres. Calculate the number of

poles he used.

7
D
Turn Over
 SECTION B: 60 MARKS
Answer all questions in this section
Marks for each question are indicated in brackets

21. The diagrams below represent subtraction of two numbers on abacus.

Study the diagrams and use them to answer the questions that follow:

om
.c
rs
pe
(a) Write down the numbers represented in the subtraction.
(02 marks)
pa
st
pa

(b) Work out the subtraction and represent your answer on the third
eb

abacus. ( 03 marks)
un

8
22. A class of 68 pupils was served matooke (M} and rice (RJ. 30 pupils
ate matooke and 2h ate rice. 7 pupils ate both matooke and rice while
9 pupils did not eat either of the foods.
(a) Use the given information to complete the Venn diagram below.
(02 marks)

n(E) = 68

n(M)=30 n(R)=2h

om
.c
rs
pe
{b) How many pupils ate rice only? (03 marks)
pa
st
pa

D
eb

2•4x0•5
un

23. (a) Work out: (03 marks)

0· 12

9 Tum Over
 (b) Simplify: o · 37 - 1 · 03 + 2 · 6 (02marks)

24. In the figure below, PQ is parallel to RS and AB is perpendicular to AR.

Study the figure and answer the question that follows.

om
.c
rs
pe
pa
st

Find the size of angle c. (04marks)

pa
eb
un

10
D
25. The diagram below represents a container which 'a shopkeeper uses to
sell cooking oil.

"/,) • I,' ',

E
8

om
.c
rs
On a certain day, the shopkeeper sold 15.4 litres of cooking oil. How
many such containers of cooking oil were sold that day? (Use re == 2/ ).
pe
(05 marks)
pa
st
pa
eb
un

11 Turn Over
26. Kizza went to a market with sh. 30,000. She bought the items shown in
the table below. After paying for all the items, she remained with
sh. 9,250.
Complete the table. (06marks)
I
i Item
!
j Unit cost Total cost

I sh 4 000 sh ................... .
3 loaves of bread sh ... . ... . .... . .. er loaf sh ...................

......... litres of milk I sh 1 500 er litre sh 2 250

om
Total Expenditure sh ................ .

.c
rs
pe

D
pa
st

27. A bus that left town A at 11:30 a.m. moving at a speed of 60 km/h
pa

reached town Bat 1:30 p.m. The bus stayed at town B for 40 minutes.
It then continued to town Cand covered a distance of 96 Kilometres at
eb

a speed of 64 km/h.

(a) Calculate the total distance covered by the bus from

un

town A to town C
(03 marks)

12
 (b) At what time did the bus reach town C? (03 marks)

om
28. The table below shows the marks obtained by some pupils in a test.
Use the information to answer the question that follows.

.c
Marks 40 I m
II
I 60 Ii 70 i

Number of pupils 2
rs 6 3
I
I
I
3
I

i
pe
If the mean mark of the pupils was 55, find the value of m. ( 04 marks)
pa
st
pa
eb
un

D
13 Turn Over
29. The number of goats, cows and sheep on a certain farm are in the ratio
of 4:3:5 respectively. There are 40 more sheep than goats on the farm.
Find the number of each type of animal on the farm.
(05 marks)

om
.c
rs
pe
30. In the parallelogram ABCDbelow, lines DX and DYare perpendiculars to
AB and BCrespectively. Line AB= 16 cm, BC= 12 cm and DX= 6 cm.
pa
st

I ',
pa

I ...... ,
I ....., .....
1 6cm ', .
I ',
eb

A..___....,X___ �---!.B
16cm
un

(a) Calculate the area of the parallelogram. (02 marks)

14
 (b) Find the length DY. {03marks)

om
31. In a market, the cost of a pawpaw is sh 800 more than the cost of a
mango. A mango costs two thirds of the cost of a pineapple. The total

.c
cost of the three fruits is sh 4,300. Calculate the cost of a pineapple.
(04 marks)

rs
pe
pa
st
pa
eb
un

15 Turn over
32. A boatman sailed from island Pon a bearing of 300 ° to island Q for a
distance of 56 km. The boatman then left island Q and sailed on a
bearing of 230 ° to island R for a distance of 40 km.

(a) Using a scale of 1 centimetre to represent 8 kilometres, draw an

accurate diagram to show the route of the boatman.
(05 marks)

om
.c
rs
---
pe
pa
st
pa
eb
un

(b) Find the bearing of island R from island P. (01 mark)

D
16 END