KISUMU BOYS HIGH SCHOOL

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

END YEAR EXAMINATIONS – TERM 3 – 2023
121/1 MATHEMATICS Alt. A Form 2
Paper 1
October 2023 – 2 hours 30 minutes

Name: ………………………………………………….....…… Adm No: ……….……

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 14 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 22 23 24 Total
Grand Total

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 SECTION I – 50 Marks
Answers all the questions in this section
1. Using logarithms only, to four decimal places, evaluate. (4 marks)

3 849.6 × 2.571
√
3901

2. Solve for 𝑥 in the equation (3 marks)

𝑥−2 3−𝑥 𝑥−2
− =
3 4 2

3. A tourist from United Kingdom arrived in Kenya with UK Sterling Pound (UK£) 4 680 all of which he
exchanged into Kenyan shillings (Ksh.). He spent Ksh. 52 352 while in Kenya and converted the rest of the
money into US dollars (US$). Calculate the amount he received in US dollars. The exchange rates were as
follows. (3 marks)
Currency Buying (Ksh) Selling (Ksh)
1US$ 145.20 147.10
1 UK£ 179.30 181.50

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4. Solve for the value of 𝑥 (3 marks)
(3𝑥−2) 𝑥 (𝑥+1)
2 ×8 =4

5. In Blessed Church choir, the ratio of males to females is 2:3. On one Sunday service, ten male members
were absent and six new female members joined the choir as guests for the day. If on this day the ratio of
males to females was 1:3, how many regular members does the choir have? (3 marks)

6. Express 1.5̇23̇ as a fraction. (3 marks)

7. Use reciprocal and square tables only to evaluate, to 4 significant figures, the expression. (3 marks)
1
– 4.1512
0.03654

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8. The diagonals of a rhombus measures 16 cm and 10 cm. Calculate the perimeter of the rhombus.
(3 marks)

9. Without using a calculator or mathematical table, evaluate (3 marks)

2.61 × 21.83 × 0.073
61.72 × 11.73

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10. Patrick spent 5 of his salary on food, 3 of the remainder on electricity and saved the rest.
(a) What fraction of his salary did he save? (2 marks).

(b) If he spent Ksh. 12 000 on food, how much did he spend on electricity? (2 marks)

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11. Solve the following simultaneous equation (3 marks)
5𝑥 + 6𝑦 = 28
3𝑥 + 4𝑦 = 18

12. Two similar containers have base areas of 750 cm2 and 120cm2 respectively. Calculate the capacity of the
larger container given that the volume of smaller container is 400 cm3 (4 marks).

13. If 𝑟 = 5, 𝑠 = 2, and 𝑡 = 3, find the value of; (3 marks)

𝑟2 + 𝑠2 − 𝑡
𝑡3

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14. Given that tan 𝑥 = 4 find cos(90 − 𝑥)0 (2 marks)

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15. A farmer has three containers of capacity 12 litres, 15 litres and 21 litres. Calculate the capacity of:
a) The smallest container which can be filled by each one of them an exact number of times
(2 marks)

b) The largest container which can fill each one of them an exact number of times. (1 mark)

16. The two arms of a pair of compasses of dividers are spread so that the angle between them is 450.Find the
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area of the sector formed if the length of the arm is 8.4 cm. Take π = (2 marks)
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 SECTION II – 50 Marks
Answer any five questions in this section
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17. An amount of money was shared among five girls, Alice, Jane, Brenda, Mary and Ivy. Alice got 8 of the
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total amount while Jane got 5 of the remainder. The remaining amount was shared equally among Brenda,
Mary and Ivy each getting Ksh. 4 900.
(a) How much did Jane get? (3 marks)

(b) How much was shared among the three girls. (3 marks)

(c) Alice, Jane and Ivy invested their money and earned a profit of Ksh.36 40 . a half of the profit was left
to maintain the business and the rest shared according to their investments. Calculate how much each
got. (4 marks)

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18. A surveyor recorded the measurements of a field book using XY = 400 m as the base line as shown below.

Y
To E 200 320
210 150 to D
To F 205 170 150 to C
50 225 to B
X
(a) Use a scale of 1 cm to represent 50 m to draw the map of the field. (5 marks)

(b) Find the area of the field in hectares (5 marks)

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19. Triangle ABC has vertices A(2, 6), B(4, 4) and C(3, 2). Triangle A′B′C′ is the image of triangle ABC after a
−1
translation by vector 𝐓 = ( )
−3
(a) On the grid provided below, draw triangles ABC and A′B′C′ (3 marks)

(b) Triangle A′′B′′C′′ is the image of triangle A′B′C′ after reflection in the line 𝑥 = 0. On the same axes, draw
A′′B′′C′′. (2 marks)

(c) Triangle A′′′B′′′C′′′ is the image of triangle A′′B′′C′′ after an enlargement scale factor 2 and centre
(−4, 3). On the same axes, draw triangle A′′′B′′′C′′′ and state its coordinates. (3 marks)

(d) State the type of congruence between triangles ABC and:

(i) A′B′C′ (1 mark)

(ii) A′′B′′C′′ (1 mark)

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20. A pail is in the shape of a container frustrum with base radius 6 cm and top radius 8 cm. The slant height of
the pail is 30 cm as shown below. The pail is full of water.

(a) Calculate the volume of water in the pail. (6 marks)

(b) All the water is poured into a cylindrical container of circular radius 7cm, if the cylinder has the height
of 35cm, calculate the height of the cylinder above the water level, which is not in contact with water.
(4marks)

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21. The line 𝑦 − 𝑥 = 2 cuts the y-axis at P while the line 3𝑥 + 4𝑦 − 22 = 0 cuts the x-axis at Q. The two lines
intersect at R as shown in the figure below.

(a) Find the coordinates of points;

(i) P; (1 mark)

(ii) Q; (2 marks)

(iii) R. (3 marks)

(b) Write down the four inequalities which define the quadrilateral OPRQ. (4 marks)

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22. In the figure below, O is the centre of the circle. AEB = 500 , EBC = 800 and ECD = 300 .

Giving reasons, calculate the sizes of:

(a) CDE (2 marks)

(b) DFE (2 marks)

(c) Obtuse COE (2 marks)

(d) ADE (2 marks)

(e) CAE (2 marks)

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23. The height of 25 coffee shrubs in a certain farm in centimeters were recorded as below:

109 120 114 121 150

149 125 106 148 140

109 108 130 138 142

148 147 107 136 139

132 135 109 116 128

(a) Complete the frequency distribution table below for the above information. Use classes of size 10
starting with 100 – 109. (5 marks)
Height Frequency (𝑓) Mid points (𝑥) 𝑓𝑥 𝑐𝑓

(b) Use the table in (a) above to calculate the mean height. (2 marks)

(c) On the grid provided below, draw a histogram to represent the information above. (3 marks)

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24. The distance between Busia to Nairobi is 360 km. A bus left Busia at 7:30 a.m. and travelled towards
Nairobi at an average speed of 90 km/h. A Nissan left Nairobi at 9:30 a.m. on the same day and travelled
towards Busia at an average speed of 120 km/h.

Calculate.

(a) How far from Busia they met to the nearest whole number. (5 marks)

(b) The time of the day they met. (2 marks)

(c) A motorist started from Kisumu at 9:25 a.m. on the same day and travelled at an average speed of
110km/h. He arrival at Nairobi at the same time with the bus. Calculate the distance from Nairobi to
Kisumu. (3 marks)

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