Form 4 2025

SECTION I

3
1. Use reciprocal tables to evaluate 0.0247
(3marks)

Factorise 12 x y  7 xy  10
2 2
2.
(3marks)

3. A line y  6 x  m  0 passes through h (4,-2) and is perpendicular to the line py  4 x  10  0

Determine the value of m and p. (4marks)
4. Construct the image of quadrilateral ABCD under enlargement scale factor -2 center of
enlargement E.

  6  4  7  2  3  3 40
5. Evaluate
24  6  2  12   2  9 4
(3marks)
6. By converting the recurring decimals part to a fraction simplify completely the following
expression. 0.243 243 243 ......... 12  8  4  13
(3marks)

7. The LCM and GCD of three number are 2520 and 6 respectively. If two of the numbers are 72 and
180, find the least possible value of the third number. (3marks)

8. The figure below show a solid conical frustrum with top and bottom parallel circular planes of 9
 cm2 and 16  cm2 respectively. If the volume of the cone from which the frustrum was cut off
is 320cm3, calculate the volume of the frustrum. (3marks)
9. The mean of the following number is 8 and the unknown x is less than y by 2.

5, 6, 8, 4, x, 9, y, 11, 13. Find the values of x and y the median of the numbers. (4marks)

Use logarithms or otherwise to evaluate 3 x 

0.6223  1.266
10.
(3marks)

1 
P , 11 
11. The point  10  is the mid point of points Q x,5 and R 8, y  . Find x and y. (3marks)
12. If the length of a rectangle is increased in the ratio 7:3 and the width increased in the 2:5, find
whether the area is increased, and what ratio.
(3marks)

13. In the figure below, O is the centre of the circle. Find the values of all the angle s marked in
letters. (3mark)
 x y 8

14. Given that x 2  y 2  34

Find the value of

(a) x 2  2 xy  y 2
(1mark)

(b) 2 xy
(2marks)
15. Mary went to U.S.A with Kshs 300,000. Her air tickets to and from U.S.A. was paid for. While in
U.S.A. she changed all the money into U.S.A dollars and spent a total of 3280 U.S dollars. Using
the rates of exchange below determine the amount she was left with at the end of her journey in
Kenya shillings.

Buying 1 U.S.A Dollar = Kshs 70

Selling 1U.S.A Dollar = Kshs 75 (3marks)

16. The angle of the depression of a moving ship from a top of a building is 600. After moving for
100m in the same direction, it angle of depression is 300. Find the height of the building correct to
4 s.f.
(3mar
SECTION II

17. Without using a set square or a protractor construct

Triangle PQR such that PQ = 8cm QR = 6cm and PQR  150

0
(a)

(b) Measure the length PR

(c) Draw a circle touching slides PQ, QR and PR

(d) Measure the radius of the circle

(e) Hence or otherwise calculate the area in the triangle but not in the circle. (10marks)
18. (a) Show by shading the unwanted region the area represented by
4 y  x  11, x  1, x  y  9, 5 y  3x  3

(b) Calculate, the enclosed area

19. Two look-out posts A and B lie on a straight coastline running east to west. The distance between
them is 5km. A ship is sighted on a bearing of 0670 from A and 3370 from B. (10marks)

(a) Find value of angle ASB

(b) Calculate the distance of the ship from A to B

(c) The ship sails on a course such that angle ASB is always 900.

(i) Describe the path taken by the ship

(ii) What is the bearing of the ship from A when it is 3km from A?
(10marks)
20. A woman leaves home at 9.00a.m and returns at 4.30p.m. The graph below shows her distance
from home, in kilometers, at various times during the day. (10
marks)

(a) Calculate her average speed between 9am and 10.30 am.

(b) Find the total number of kilometers she between 6 am and 4.30 p.m.

(c) How far is she from home at 2.45 p.m.?

(d) For how many hours during the day is she moving towards home?
21. (a) Show by means of completing square, that the solution of the quadratic equation.

X 2  2 px  q  0 are  p p 2
q  (3marks)

(b) By substituting x  y , find all the values of y, correct to 2 significant figures which
2

satisfy the equation. y  10 y  15  0

4 2
(3marks)

(c) Make X the subject of the following equation and simplify as for possible leaving your answer in
terms

of  . X    2x  2 x  2
2 2
(4marks)
 22. The table below shows the marks scored by 100 students in a mathematics test

Marks 0  x  10 10  x  20 20  x  30 30  x  40 40  x  50 50  x  60 60  x  70 70  x  80

No of 6 9 12 30 20 Y 6 3
stude
nts

(a) Determine the value of y (1mark)

(b) State the median and modal class (2mark)

(c) Calculate the mean

(3mark)

(d) Calculate the median

(2marks)

(e) Calculate the 45th mark

(2mark)
23. The tuning of a radio is controlled by a cylindrical shaft of 4cm long and 5mm radius. The shaft has
been cut leaving a plane rectangular surface (shown shaded)

Calculate

(a) The volume of the shaft (5

marks)

(b) The total surface area of the shaft. (5 marks)

24. (a) Two parallel walls stand on level ground. The first wall is 20m high, P and Q are points on the
second wall such that P is at the top of the wall and Q is at the base of the wall directly below P.
From a point A at the top of the first wall, the angle of elevation of P is 400 and the angle of
depression of Q is 150. The line PQ is directly opposite A. Calculate.

(i) The distance between the walls.

(3marks)

(ii) The height of the second wall.

(3marks)

(b) A point C at the top of the first wall is 30m from A. Determine the angle of elevation of the

point P from C.