Candidate’s Name Assessment

Number
School Name School Code
Candidate’s Signature Date
MONITORING JUNIOR SCHOOL LEARNER PROGRESS
GRADE 8: 803: MATHEMATICS

CODE: 008 YEAR: 2025

TIME: 2 HOURS KJSEA

INSTRUCTIONS TO LEARNERS

1. Write your name and Assessment number in the spaces provided above.
2. Sign and write the date of the assessment in the spaces provided above.
3. This question paper consists of TWO sections: A and B.
4. Answer ALL the questions in Section A on the separate ANSWER SHEET provided.
5. Show all the workings in Section B in the spaces provided.
6. Non-programmable calculators may be used, except where stated otherwise.
7. Answer ALL the questions in Section B in the spaces provided in this QUESTION PAPER.
8. For π, use either the calculator value or 3.142.
9. Give non-exact numerical answers, correct to 3 significant figures and one decimal place for angles in
degrees, unless a different level of accuracy is specified in the question.
10. Do NOT remove any page from this question paper.
11. Answer ALL the questions in English.

For Official Use Only

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Score 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 20
Candidate’s score

Section B: Structured Questions (50 Marks)

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Mar 2 2 3 1 3 2 4 3 3 2 4 1 2 2 3 2 1 1 2 4 2 1 2 50
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pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.

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 SECTION A: (20 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

B. 44 cm
1. What is the total value of the digit 7 in the number C. 49 cm
47,839,215? D. 154 cm
A. 70,000,000
B. 700,000 Working space
C. 7,000,000
D. 7

2. What is 3,489.954 rounded off to the nearest

tenth? A. 3,489.9
B. 3,490.0
C. 3,489.95
D. 3,490

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3. A class has 48 students. If of the students are
8
boys, how many girls are in the class?
A. 18
B. 24
C. 30
D. 32

4. Which of the following is the correct list of the

first four even numbers greater than 10?
A. 10, 12, 14, 16
B. 11, 13, 15, 17
C. 12, 14, 16, 18
D. 12, 14, 15, 16

2
5. Solve the equation: x−4=6
3
A. x = 15
B. x = 3
C. x = 12
D. x = 6.67

6.What is the Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) of:

8, 12, and 16?

A. 24 B. 48
C. 96 D. 192

7. The area of a circle is 154 cm². What is the

22
circumference of the circle? (Take π = )
7
A. 22 cm

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 A. 0.12
B. 1.2
C. 0.012
8. A salesperson earns a basic salary of Ksh. 15,000 D. 0.0012
plus a 5% commission on all sales above Ksh.
50,000. If they sold goods worth Ksh. 120,000 in Working space
one month, what were their total earnings?
A. Ksh. 18,500
B. Ksh. 21,000
C. Ksh. 17,500
D. Ksh. 3,500

9. Factorise the expression:

5a² - 10a

A. 5a (a - 2)
B. 5(a² - 2a)
C. 5a(a - 10)
D. a(5a - 10)

10. A map is drawn to a scale of 1:200,000. What is

the actual distance in kilometres of a road that
measures 4.5 cm on the map?

A. 900 km
B. 90 km
C. 9 km
D. 0.9 km

11. Which of these is a property of a parallelogram?

A. All angles are 90°.
B. Diagonals are perpendicular.
C. Opposite sides are equal and parallel.
D. All sides are equal.

12. Convert the recurring decimal 0.4 into a fraction.

4
A.
10
2
B.
5
4
C.
9
4
D.
99

13. What is the value of:

0.0144

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 ball at random?
1 3 3 1
A. B. C. D.
3 10 7 5

14. A meeting started at 10:45 a.m. and ended at Working space

1:25 p.m. How long did the meeting last?
A. 2 hours 40 minutes
B. 3 hours 20 minutes
C. 2 hours 20 minutes
D. 3 hours 40 minutes

15. The surface area of a cube is 294 cm². What is

the volume of the cube?
A. 49 cm³
B. 125 cm³
C. 216 cm³
D. 343 cm³

16. What is the next number in the sequence:

3, 7, 12, 18, 25, ___?

A. 30 B. 32
C. 33 D. 35

17. Three bells ring at intervals of 15 minutes, 20

minutes, and 30 minutes. If they all ring together at
11:00 a.m., at what time will they next ring together?
A. 11:30 a.m.
B. 12:00 p.m.
C. 12:30 p.m.
D. 1:00 p.m.

18. Represent the statement "a number k is greater

than or equal to -5" as an inequality.
A. k < -5
B. k > -5
C. k ≤ -5
D. k ≥ -5

19. A plot of land is in the shape of a sector of a

circle with a radius of 21 metres and an angle of
22
120°. What is the area of the plot? (Take π = )
7
A. 1386 m²
B. 462 m²
C. 44 m²
D. 924 m²

20. A bag contains 5 red balls, 3 blue balls, and 2

green balls. What is the probability of picking a blue
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 SECTION B: (50 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section. Show all your working.

21. A trader bought 80 kg of sugar at Ksh. 120 per kg. He packed the sugar into 500g packets.

a) How many 500g packets did he get from all the sugar? (2 marks)

b) He sold each 500g packet for Ksh. 75. Calculate his total sales. (2 marks)

c) Calculate the percentage profit he made. (3 marks)

22. The table below shows the temperature readings in degrees Celsius for Kigos town over one week in
June 2025.

Day Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Temp (°C) 22 24 21 22 23 24 22
a) What was the modal temperature for the week? (1 mark)

b) Calculate the mean temperature for the week, correct to one decimal place. (3 marks)

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c) What was the range of the temperatures recorded? (2 marks)

d) Draw a bar graph to represent this information. (4 marks)

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23. A farmer has a cylindrical silo with an internal radius of 3.5 metres and a height of 10 metres. (Take π
22
= )
7

a) Calculate the volume of the silo in cubic metres. (3 marks)

b) The farmer fills 54 of the silo with maize. What is the volume of the maize in the silo? (3 marks)

c) Calculate the curved surface area of the silo. (2 marks)

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24. a) Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct a triangle PQR where PQ = 8 cm, QR = 7 cm,
and angle PQR = 90°. (4 marks)

b) Measure the length of the side PR. (1 mark)

c) Construct the perpendicular bisector of the line PQ. (2 marks)

25. Akinyi wants to buy a smartphone that costs Ksh. 24,000. The shop offers two payment options:

Option A: Cash payment with a 12% discount.

Option B: Hire Purchase, with a deposit of Ksh. 5,000 and 10 equal monthly instalments of Ksh.
2,200.

a) Calculate the amount Akinyi would pay if she chooses Option A. (2 marks)

b) Calculate the total amount she would pay if she chooses Option B (Hire Purchase). (3 marks)

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c) How much more expensive is the Hire Purchase price than the original cash price? (2 marks)

d) Advise Akinyi on the better option, giving a reason. (1 mark)

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26. The sum of the ages of a father and his son is 60 years. The father is three times as old as his son.

a) Letting the son's age be 'y', write an expression for the father's age. (1 mark)

b) Form an equation to represent their total age. (2 marks)

c) Solve the equation to find the current age of the son and the father. (4 marks)

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27. On the Cartesian plane provided, plot the points A(2, 2), B(6, 2), and C(2, 5).

a) Join the points to form a triangle ABC. (2 marks)

b) State the name of the triangle formed. (1 mark)

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c) Calculate the area of triangle ABC. (2 marks)

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