COMMONWEALTH COLLEGE OF MEDICAL AND RELATED STUDIES
UNIT: NUMERACY SKILLS
WRITTEN ASSESSMENT
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. You have TWO hours to answer the questions
2. Marks for each questions are indicated in the brackets
3. This paper consists of THREE sections A, B and C
4. Do not write on the question paper
5. A separate answer booklet will be provided
SECTION A(10Marks)
Answer all questions in this section
1.106 × 106 – 94 × 94 =?
A. 2004
B. 2400
C. 1904
D. 1906
2. Find the sum of 111 + 222 + 333
A. 700
B. 666
C. 10
D.100
3. Simplify: 26 + 32 - 12
A. 0
B. 32
C. 56
D. 46
4. Solve: 200 – (96 ÷ 4)
A. 105
B. 176
C. 26
D. 16
5. Simplify :150 ÷ (6 + 3 x 8) - 5
A. 2
B. 5
C. 0
D. None of these
6. In 24,673; the place-value of 6 is …...
A. 700
B. 600
C. 10
D.100
7. 19 + ……. = 42
A. 23
B. 61
C. 0
D.42
8. Find the value of x; if x = (2 × 3) + 11.
A. 55
B. 192
C. 17
D. 66
9. How much is 190 – 87 + 16?
A. 103
B. 261
C. 87
D. 119
10. Complete the sequence 13, 16, ……, 22.
A. 17
B. 18
C. 19
D. 20
SECTION B (30 MARKS)
Answer all questions in this Section
11.. The ratio of number of boys and girls is 4: 3. If there are 18 girls in a class,
find the number of boys in the class and the total number of students in the class.
(2Marks)
12.Write each of the following in its simplest form
A. 7:14 B. 15:25 C.10:4 (3Marks)
13. In a class of 24 pupils, 4 need additional support. What fraction of the class
needs additional support? Give your answer in its lowest terms. (2Marks)
14. A school has 203 pupils in Year 1. All pupils in the year group are provided
with a free dictionary. If dictionaries come in boxes of 16, how many boxes are
needed? (2Marks)
15. Teachers organized activities for three classes of 24 pupils and four classes of
26 pupils. What was the total number of pupils involved? (3Marks)
16. As part of a science lesson, pupils were asked to stretch a spring to extend its
length by 25 per cent. The original length of the spring was 30 centimeters. What
should be the length of the extended spring? Give your answer in centimeters.
(3 Marks)
17. Sixteen men working 9 hours a day can complete a piece of work in 14 days.
How many more men working 7 hours a day would complete the same job in 12
days? (5 Marks)
18.Work out; (10Marks)
A. 2/5+3/6-1/4
B.2-1/2
C. 7 /24 ÷ 14/ 32 × 3 /16
D. 5/ 6 – 3/ 4 + 7 /24
E. 5× −2 − 8(− )12 +16 ÷ −8 =
SECTION C (60 Marks)
QUESTION ONE
A) 3 taps X,Y and Z can fill a tank in 40 hours, 15 hours and 20 hours
respectively.
The three taps are turned on at 8.00a.m when the tank is empty for five hours
then Z is turned off. After two hours tap Y is turned off. Work out;-
a. The proportion of water in the tank after seven hours
b. The proportion of water in the tank after seven hours
c. The time the tank will be completely full (10 Marks)
B) A group of people planned to contribute equally towards buying land at a
price of shs.180000. However, 3 members of the group withdrew from the
project. As a result, each of the remaining members were to contribute
kshs.3000 more.
a. find the original number of members in the group
b. How much would each person have contributed if the 3 people had
not withdrew
c. Calculate the percentage increase in the contribution per person
caused by the withdrawal. (10Marks)
QUESTION TWO
A. On a map, a length of 1 cm represents an actual distance 7 km.
(a)Calculate the actual distance in kilometers, represented by 5 cm on the map.
(b)Calculate the distance in the map, if the actual distance is 56 km.
(c)If there is another map, where the same distance of 56 km is represented by 4
cm, find the
scale of this new map.
(10Marks)
B. On a map, a length of 1 cm represents an actual distance 8 km.
(a) If a road has a length of 64 km, calculate its length on the map.
(b) If the length in the map is 2.5 cm, calculate the actual distance.
(c) Find the scale of a new map, where 2.5 cm represents 50 km. (10marks)
QUESTION THREE
A. Each minute 100Lof water is taken from a tank to water crops. After the crops
had been watered for 10minutes the tank contained 8000L.How much water as in
the tank before the crops were watered? (5 marks)
B. i) Write the ratio of 4:5 as a fraction, decimal and percentage. (3 Marks)
ii) Simplify 15mm:5cm (2 Marks)
iii)Solve for n 3:8 =n:56 (2 Marks)
iv)5+ 8+4 (2marks)
C. What are the importance of Numeracy skills (6Marks)
QUESTION FOUR
A. On the last day of school, pupils were allowed to bring some snacks to share
with each other.5 pupils brought 3 apples each,6 pupils brought 2 bananas each,
and 3 pupils brought 4 nectarines each. How many pieces of fruit were there to
share?
(5Marks)
B. The map distance between two towns is 4.2cm, and the actual distance between
the two towns in a straight line is 84km. Calculate the map scale (5Marks)
C. A Tom, Dick and Harry own shares in their company in the ratio 3:5:7. If the
total value of the shares is ksh 10,500. What value of shares would Harry need to
give Tom for all three to own the shares equally?
(5Marks)
D. Outline 5 different types of measuring instruments (5Marks)
