BY MWALA TIMOTHY

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

121/1 – MATHEMATICS (ALT A) – Paper 1
OCTOBER 2022
Time: 2 ½ hours

Form Three Exam I-121/1

TERM III

Name………………..……….……….……..….……….... Adm Number…………….……

Class…........................ Date ………........................... Signature ………………………

Instructions to candidates
(i) Write your name, admission number and class in the space provided above.
(ii) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
(iii) This paper consists of two sections: Section I and Section II.
(iv) Answer all the questions in Section I and only five questions from Section II.
(v) Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the
spaces provided below each question.
(vi) Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
(vii) Non – programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical Tables
may be used, except where stated otherwise.
(viii) This paper consists of 15 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper
to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are
missing.
For Examiner’s 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 22 23 24 Total Grand Total
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SECTION I (50 Marks)

Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided.

( × × )
1. Express 9261 as a product of its prime factors hence evaluate. (3
√
marks)

2. A man spent of his salary on food and of the remainder on rent. He spent of
what still remained on school fees and was left with Ksh. 14 400. How much is his
salary?
(3 marks)

3. A boy walks directly from a point A towards the foot of a tall building 120 m away.
After covering 90 m, he observes that the angle of elevation of the top of the building
is 45o.
Determine the angle of elevation of the top of the building from A. (3 marks)

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√ . × .
4. Using tables of logarithms, evaluate (4 marks)
.

5. In the figure below, the length of the minor arc AB = 4.4 cm and OA = OB = 8.4 cm.
Calculate the area of the minor segment. Take π= . (4 marks)

6. Find the integral values of x for which < 81-x ≤ 4x+1

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7. A small cone of height 4cm is cut off from a bigger cone to leave a frustum of height
8cm. If the volume of the smaller cone is 64cm3, find the volume of the frustum. (3
marks)

8. Three years ago, a mother was 8 times as old as her son. In five years’, time, the sum
of their ages will be 52 years. How old was the mother when the son was born? (3
marks)

9. Triangle ABC is mapped onto triangle AI BI CI by a rotation through centre X.

By construction, determine the centre and the angle of rotation. (3 marks)

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10. Two aircrafts A and B leave airport P at the same time. Aircraft A flies on a bearing
072o at an average speed of 240 km/h while aircraft B flies on a bearing 300 o at an
average speed of 288 km/h. Calculate the distance between the two aircrafts after 40
minutes of
flight. (3 marks)

11. Three metal rods of lengths 4.68m, 5.40m and 6.48m were cut into shorter pieces of
maximum possible equal lengths to make window grills. Find the least number of
pieces
that can be obtained from the rods. (3 marks)

12. Given that a=3i + 2j and b=4i + j, find |5𝒂 − 2𝒃|. (3 marks)

13. Simplify - (3 marks)

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14. The interior angles of an irregular hexagon are 2xo, x◦, (x +40) ◦, (2x-15) ◦ ,110o
and 145o. Find the size of the smallest angle of the hexagon. (3 marks)

15. A salesman earns a basic salary of Sh. 6 700 plus a commission of x% on all sales above
Sh. 120 000. In a certain month, he made sales amounting to Sh. 310 000 and earned
a total of Sh. 20 000. Determine the amount of money he would have earned with sales
amounting to Sh. 420 000. (3 marks)

16. A student cycled from his home to school 5 km away in 15 minutes. He stopped at the
school for 5 minutes before taking a motorcycle to a town 25 km away. The
motorcycle travelled at an average speed of 50 km/h. On the grid provided below,
draw a graph of distance (km) against time (minutes) to represent the journey.
(3 marks)

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SECTION II (50 Marks)

Chose any five questions in this section .
17. The figure below shows a solid in the shape of a right pyramid with a base in the shape
of a regular pentagon ABCDE of side 4 cm. AV = BV = CV = DV = EV = 10.1 cm.

(a) Calculate correct to 1 decimal place:

(i) The slant height of the pyramid. (1 mark)

(ii) The perpendicular height of the pyramid. (3marks)

(a) Calculate:
(i) The volume of the solid. (3 marks)

(ii) The surface area of the solid. (3 marks)

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18. The gradient of a straight line L1 passing through the points P (3,4) and Q is -1 .
Another line L2 is perpendicular to L1 and passes through the points Q and R (2,-1).
(a) Determine:
(i) The x and y intercepts of the line L1. (4 marks)

(ii) The equation of the line L2 in the form ax + by = c where a, b and c are
integers.
(3 marks)

(b) Find the coordinates of Q. (3 marks)

𝟑 𝟒
19. (a) Given that A = find A-1 (2 marks)
𝟒 𝟑

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(b) In a public auction, the price of a goat is Ksh. x while the price of a sheep is Ksh.
y. A trader bought 3 goats and 4 sheep for a total of Ksh. 41 100. If he had bought
4 goats and 3 sheep, he would have spent Ksh. 42 200.
(i) Form two linear equations to represent the information above. (2
marks)

(ii) Use A -1 in (a) above to find the cost of one goat and one sheep. (4 marks)

(c) After a year, the trader sold all the animals at a profit of 20% per goat and 25%
per
sheep. How much sales did he make. (2 marks)

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20. (a) Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct:

(i) Triangle PQR in which PQ = 5 cm, QR = 3.5 cm and <PQR 105 o. (3 marks)

(ii) A circle that passes through the vertices P, Q and R. Measure the radius of
the circle. (3 marks)

(iii) A perpendicular from R to PQ produced at S. Measure RS. (2 marks)

(b) Calculate the area of the circle that lies outside the triangle PQR correct to 2
decimal places. Take π to be 3.142.
(2 marks)

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21. Heights in cm for 50 seedlings were recorded in the table below.

3 7 15 11 19 16 4 15 6 20
22 8 20 4 19 8 14 13 21 12
9 21 13 8 16 7 17 8 12 13
12 8 17 3 18 11 5 12 12 14
10 16 9 18 9 14 15 10 12 14
(a) Starting with 3 and using a class interval of 4, draw a frequency distribution table.
(2 marks)

(b) Using the frequency distribution table in (a) above, calculate:

(i) The mean height. (3
marks)

(ii) The median height. (3 marks)

(c) On the grid provided below, draw a frequency polygon to represent the
information in the table in (a) above.
(2 marks)

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22. The distance between two towns P and Q is 180 km. A car travelling at 15 km/h faster
than a van takes 36 minutes less to arrive at Q from P.
(a) Calculate the speeds of the car and the van. (4 marks)

(b) On a certain day, the van left town P for Q at 7.15 a.m. Eighteen minutes later, a
salon car left town Q for P. Find:
(i) The time when the two vehicles met. (3 marks)

(ii) The distance of the van from Q when the salon car arrived at P. (3
marks)

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23. In the figure below O is the centre of the circle. PQR is a tangent to the circle at Q.
Angle PQS=280, angle UTQ=540 and UT =TQ.

Giving reasons, determine the size of

(a) Angle STQ. (2mks)

(b) Angle TQU. (2mks)

(c) Angle TQS (2mks)

(a) Reflex angle UOQ. (2mks)

(b) Angle TQR. (2mks)

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