THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
KWIMBA DISTRICT COUNCIL
FORM FOUR AUGUST SPECIAL EXAMINATION
041 BASIC MATHEMATICS
Time: 3 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS
1. This paper consists of section A and B with total fourteen (14) questions.
2. Answer all questions in both sections
3. Each question in section A carries six (6) marks while each question in
section B carries ten (10) marks.
4. All writings must be in blue and black ink, except drawings which
should be in pencil
5. Mathematical tables and No-programmable calculators may be used.
6. All communication devices, programmable calculators and any unauthorized materials a
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SECTION A (60 Marks)
Answer all questions in this section
1. (a) Find the approximation value of the expression by rounding off each number in the expression
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to one significant figure.
b) The numbers 28, 41, 42, 59, 70 belong to the set of natural numbers. By using these numbers
(i) Calculate the difference between the lowest common multiple of prime numbers and the
greatest common factor of the remaining number
(ii) Express the answer obtained in 1(b) above in standard notation Ax10n convert into two
Significant figures where 1 ≤ 𝐴 < 10 and n is any integer
2. (a) If a = 0.85̇ and b = 0.2̇1̇ Find the value of in simplest form
(b) (i) The interior angle of a regular polygon is one hundred and eight degrees greater than the
exterior angle. How many sides does the polygon have? And suggest the name of the polygon.
(ii) Solve for x given that 25(2 )=x
(c) Given that a: b = 5: 2 and b:c = 3:4, find a:c
3. (a) Each of the 50 students in a class must take at least one of the following subjects cookery and
needle work. If 30 take cookery and 20 take needle work, how many take both subjects
(b) (i) Show this (A∪B)' on a Venn diagram
(ii) A census was made in a certain village and found that some of families are famers and some
are hunters and some practice both farming and hunting, at this village were forty families. It
was also found that the number of families who practice farming only were six more than
twice the number of hunters only. However, families who practise both hunting and farming
were three times the number of families who practice hunting only.
Furthermore, there were four families who just practice none of these activities. Calculate the
probability of selecting families who practice either hunting or farming.
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4. (a) Both lines r and s passes through the point (k,9) Line r has a slope of - and pass through the
point (5,-3). Determine
(i) The value of k
(ii) Equation of S in standard form of ax + by + c = 0. If its x – intercept is 4
(b) Mikumi is one hundred forty kilometres of a bearing of seventy degree from Iringa .
Makambako is one hundred sixty kilometres at a bearing of two hundred fifteen degrees from Iringa.
Sketch the position of the towns relative to each other. Hence calculate the displacement from
Makambako to Mikumi.
5.(a) The surface area of a solid sphere whose radius is six centimetres is equal to the surface area of a
solid right cylinder with radius two centimetre. Find the height of the cylinder.
(b) (i) Prove that the bisector of the vertical angle of an isosceles triangle is perpendicular to the base
its midpoint
(ii) Find the area of a regular decagon inscribed in a circle with radius of ten centimetres
6. (a) The number of the square tiles needed to surface the floor of a hall varies inversely as the square
of the length of a side of the tile used. If 2016 tiles of sides 0.4m would be needed to surface the floor
of the hall. How many tiles of sides 0.3m would be required?
(b) (i) A shopkeeper sold five hundred sweets. Some sweets cost five shillings and some costs eight
shillings. The cash received for the more expensive sweets was one hundred more than for the cheaper
sweets. Find the number each kind of sweets
(ii) Using the information in 6(b) above. Assuming that you are in US how much USD could you use
for the cheaper sweets if 1 USD is equivalent to Tsh. 1200/=
7. (a) A bicycle costs Tsh.150,800 If 2 % discount is given to a customer. What is the discounted
price?
(b) Define the following terminologies as used in accounts
(i) Double entry system
(ii) Ledger
(iii) Closing stock (Stock at close)
(iv) Long terms liabilities
8. (a) Second term, fifth term and seventh term of AP is the first three terms of a geometric
progression. Calculate the common ratio and the second term of the geometric progression.
b) i) A series of an arithmetic progression has six, a number and thirty-eight. Find the number
ii) Find the sum of all integers from one to one hundred which are not divisible by five
9. (a) Your are walking up a five hundred meters high hill. The trail has an inclined of twelve degrees.
How far will you walk to get to the top of the hill. (your answer in kilometre)
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(b) (i) Consider two square of different size. Draw the smaller square ABCD inscribed in the larger
one PQRS whose vertices divides the length of the larger at a ratio a: b such that the length l = a + b
prove the Pythagoras theorem.
(ii) A student is standing ten meter away from a foot of a big and tall tree and observed that the angle
of elevation is fifty five degrees. How high is he if it is sixteen high meters?
10. (a) (i) What must be added to make the expression that the difference between the square of a
number and twelve times the number will make it a perfect square.
(ii) The sum of the two consecutive numbers is five. Find the numbers
(b) The entrance door of the house of Mr. Msaki has two stairs, the length of the base stair is twelve
plus a certain number while its height it two plus the same number. However, the second stair’s height
is four times the same number from the first stair, while its length is four plus the same number.
Moreover, the second stair is on top of the base stair.
(i) Write the expression for the sum of the area of the down stair and the upper stair
(ii) What is the value of the number if the total area of the stairs is 104cm2?
SECTION.B (40 Marks)
Answer all questions in this section
11. Consider the data given in the following frequency distribution table
Class – Interval Frequency
0-10 4
10-20 16
20-30 x
30-40 y
40-50 z
50-60 6
60-70 4
The total frequency = 230, median = 33.5 and mode = 34
(a) State:
(i) The median class
(ii) The modal class
(b) Find the values of x, y and z
(c) Find the mean of the data.
(d) Show the radius of a circle with an arc of length 𝜋 m and central angle of is 6m
12. (a) The ship P and Q are at the points A (Latitude 700N, Longitude 400W) B (Latitude 50S,
Longitude 400W) respectively. Ship P has an average speed of 40KM/h and Q of 45 km/h. If the two
ships leave their ports at 8:00a.m on January 1 and travel toward each other. Where and when will
they meet? (Radius of the earth = 640km, 𝜋 = 3.142.)
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(b) Draw a rectangular box ABCD and the points E, F, G and H are vertically above in the
respective
order. If AB = 12cm, BC = 5cm, GC = 6cm.
(i) Find the diagonals AC and AG
(ii) Find the angle between AG and the base
(iii) Is HD and AB skew lines? Why?
(iv) State number of faces, edges and vertices.
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13. (a) For what value of p will the matrix be non- singular matrix
1 6𝑝
2 −3
(b) If A = and f (x) = x2 -3x-4I. Find f (A), Where I is an identify matrix.
−2 1
What is the name of a matrix?
(c) A shopkeeper is planning to start a business using two types of commodities. With these
commodities, the shopkeeper found that. If he takes three times the first commodity more than half
of the second commodity, he gates the profit of one thousand two hundred shillings. However, if he
takes twice the first commodity less than three times the second commodity he gets four hundred
shillings as a profit. Using Cramer’s rule find which type of commodity the first one or second one
he has to buy in large quantity to get large profit
14. A company sells refrigerator and washing machines. Each refrigerator takes up 1.8m2 of space and
cost 300,000 shillings. Whereas each washing machine takes up 1.5m2 of space and cost 500,000
shillings. The owner of the shop has 6,000,000 shillings to spend and has 27m2 of space
(a) Write down all the inequalities which represent the given information
(b) If he makes a profit of 30,000 shillings on each refrigerator and 40,000 shillings on each
washing machine, find how many refrigerators and washing machines he should sell for
maximum profit.
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