Term 3 - 2023

MATHEMATICS (Alternative A)
FORM ONE (1)
Time: 2½ Hours

Name: ………………………………………………….....…… AdmNo: ……….……

School: ………………………………………………………….. Class: …………………

Candidate’s Signature: …….………...................................... Date: …..…………….

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
(a) Write your name, admission number, school and class in the spaces provided at the top of
this page.
(b) Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided above.
(c) This paper consists of two sections: Section I and Section II.
(d) Answer ALL questions in Section I and all the questions from Section II.
(e) Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces
provided below each question.
(f) Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
(g) Non-programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical Tables may be
used.
(h) This paper consists of 17 printed pages.
(i) Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the pages are printed as
indicated and no questions are missing.
For Examiners’ Use Only
SECTION I

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total

SECTION II

17 18 19 20 21 Total
Grand
Total

SECTION I (50Mrks)

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 Answer ALL the Questions in the section
1. Evaluate: (4 marks)
1 3 1
2 of 1 −5
2 4 4
2 1 3
1 + 2(1 −2 )
5 4 4

2. An electrician made a loss of 30% by selling a multi plug at Sh. 1400. What profit would he
have made if he sold the multi plug at sh 2300. (3 marks)

3. Harell had 985 bales of baking flour in his store. He sold 497 of them. If each bale contained
12 packets, how many packets remained? (3 marks)

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4. Simplify 4(q+6) + 7(q-3) (3 marks)

5. The figure below shows a net of a solid.

a) Sketch the solid of the net showing the hidden edges with broken lines.
(2 marks)

b) Find the total surface area of the solid. (2 marks)

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6. It would take 15men 8days to dig a trench of 240m long. Find how many days it would take
18men to dig a trench 360meters long working at the same rate.
(3 marks)

7. A regular polygon is such that its exterior angle is one eighth the size of interior angle. Find
the number of sides of the polygon. (3 marks)

8. Convert 0. to a fraction (3 marks)

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9. A Canadian tourist arrived in Nairobi with Canadian dollars 6200. She converted all his
money into Kenya Shillings and then spent a total of Kshs. 100,000. She paid her Kenyan
tour guide a commission equivalent to 20% of the remainder. Given that 1 canadian dollar =
Ksh. 48.12. calculate
i. How much she got in kenya shillings after converting all her money. (1 mark)

ii. The amount of kenya shillings she was left with at the end. (2 marks)

10. Without using tables, evaluate (3 marks)

11. A father is now four times as old as his son. Five years ago, he was exactly one year and
half times as old as his son will be in ten years from now. Determine the sum of their
present ages. (4 marks)

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12. An arc length of 11cm subtends an angle of 140° at the circle. Find the area of the enclosed
sector. (3 marks)

13. A sum of money is divided among three men X, Y and Z in the ratio 5:3:1. If Y has ksh 700
more than Z, calculate how much X has (3 marks)

14. Evaluate -42+-2(10÷-5) -(-17) (3 marks)

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15. An Educational complex has a nursery school, primary school and a secondary school. A
lesson in the nursery school last 60 min, while in primary it last 30 minutes and in secondary
it lasts 40 min. The lesson began at 8.00 am on Monday. At what time of the day again shall
they begin together (3 marks)

16. 2.5 litres of water of density 1.1g/cm3 is added to 5 litres of alcohol of density 0.8 g/cm3.
Calcultate the density of the mixture. (3 marks)

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 SECTION II (50 marks)
Answer all the questions from this section
17. (a) Riggy G traveled to London with ksh 360,000. He exchanged the Kenya shilling for
sterling pounds on arrival when the exchange rate was ₤1 sterling pound = ksh 104.
Determine to the nearest pound how much he received if the bank charged him 2½ %
commission. (4 marks)

(b) In London, he spent ₤2025 and then traveled to Washington D.C where he exchanged the
balance of his money for US dollars. The rate of exchange was ₤1 sterling pound = 1.6 US
dollar. How much did he receive in US dollar assuming no commission was charged?
(3 marks)

(c) He spent ¾ of the money and then traveled back to Nairobi. He exchanged the remaining
dollars into Kenya shilling at the rate 1U.S dollar = Ksh 73.25. How much did he receive in
Kenya shilling assuming that no commission was charged
(3 marks)

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18. Three ships X, Y and Z are approaching a habour H. X is 150km from the habour on a
bearing of O90°. Y is 130km from the habour on a bearing of 130°E and Z is 180km to the
west of Y.
a) Taking a scale of 1cm to represent 20km, make a scale drawing of the routes of the three
ships to the habour. (6 marks)

b) What is the distance between ships X and Z? (2 marks)

c) Find the bearing of H from Z. (2 marks)

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19. in a certain meeting, there were 95men in attendance. There were 50 more women than men
and twice as many children as men.
a. Determine the number of people in attendance. (2 marks)

b. Find the percentage of children in attendance, correct to 3 significant figures.

c. A hall for the meeting was fitted with benches that could accommodate either10 children
or 7 adults per bench.
Find the number of benches
i. Used by the children (2 mar ks)

ii. Completely filled by the adults. (2 marks)

iii. Adults who would fill the unoccupied space. (2 marks)

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20. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses, construct parallelogram ABCD such that AB = 8cm,
diagonal AC = 12cm and angle BAC = 22.5° (4 marks)

a) Measure (i) The diagonal BD (1 mark)

(ii) The angle ABC (1 mark)

b) Draw the circumference of triangle ABC (2 marks)

c) Calculate the area of the circle drawn (2 marks)

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21. A slaughter house bought a number of goats at sh. 2000 each and a number of bulls
at sh. 15,000 each. They paid a total of sh. 190,000. If they bought twice as many
goats and three bulls less, they would have saved sh. 5000.
(a)Find the number of each type of animal bought (5 marks)

(b)The slaughter house sold all the animals at a profit of 25% per goat and 30% per
bull. Determine the total profit they made. (5 marks)

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