Maths Grade 6
Maths Grade 6
TISMA 004
KPSEA -MATHEMATICS - GRADE 6
EXAM TERM 2 OPENER 2023
1. In a wedding ceremony, Grade six learners carried 2 342 chairs. They later went for 1
009 more chairs. Out of these, 1 810 were used. How many were not used?
A. 1 641
B. 1 541
C. 1 531
D. 1 631
2. In an Agricultural Exhibition, there were 324 867 participants. What is the place value of
digit 2 in this number?
A. Hundreds.
B. Tens of thousands.
C. Thousands.
D. Hundreds of thousands.
3. Work out the LCM of 8 and 12.
A. 2
B. 12
C. 32
D. 24
4. Round off 43 866 to the nearest hundred.
A. 43 900
B. 43 860
C. 44 000
D. 43 800
5. Out of 12 864 chickens in a school, 6 028 were cocks and the rest were hens. How many
hens were there?
A. 18 892
B. 18 792
C. 6 836
D. 6736
6. The distance between town X and town Y is 2 700m. How many kilometres and metres
are between the two towns?
A. 2km 700m
B. 27km 00m
C. 2km 700m
D. 270km 00m
17. An NGO organisation donated 1291 600kg of maize to be shared equally among 8
boarding schools in a sub county. What mass of maize did each school get?
A. 16t 1600kg
B. 15t 200kg
C. 16t 200kg
D. 15t 1600kg
18. Petrol in a 40 litres 800ml container was emptied to fill 8 equal containers. What was the
capacity of each container?
A. 50 litres 10ml
B. 5 litres 100ml
C. 5 litres 10ml
D. 50 litres 100mi
19. Joan bought three bens each sh. 400. She later sold them for sh. 550 cach. What was her
profit
A. Sh. 1 650
B. Sh. 1 200
C. Sh. 450
D. Sh. 550
20. A. boy stood in the field facing south. How should the boy turn in order to face east?
Make a
A. quarter turn to his left.
B. quarter turn to his right.
C. full turn to his left.
D. half turn to his right.
A. Obtuse angle.
B. Reflex angle.
C. Acute angle.
D. Right angle.
The table below shows the sale of milk in Mwanda's farm for a period of five days. Use it to
answer the following questions.
22. How many less litres of milk were on Wednesday than on Friday?
A. 590ℓ
B. 130ℓ
C. 230ℓ
D. 490ℓ
23. Which two consecutive days recorded the lowest sale of milk?
24. How much milk was sold on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday?
A. 1 256ℓ
25. How much milk was sold on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday?
A. 1 256ℓ
B. 1 246ℓ
C. 656ℓ
D. 666ℓ
26. Which one of the following lists shows money paid by the public to a county government
of Kenya?
A. Land fees, school fees, parking
fee, cess
B. Market fees, cess, business
permit, security fee
C. Market fees, business permit,
cess, parking fee
D. Land fees, security fee, business
permit, parking fee
27. Which of the following statements does not describe a rectangle? It has
28. A father bought ℓ hens. A mother bought 16 more hens. In total, 25 hens were bought.
How many hens did the father buy?
A. 19
B. 9
C. 41
D. 8
29. Mariarosa received x beads after their teacher divided 125 beads equally among 5 of
them. How many beads did Mariarose get?
A. 25
B. 35
C. 15
D. 45
A. 23
B. 13
C. 50
D. 53