LAND SURVEYORS’ EXAMINATION
2013
MATHEMAT
UCTIONS: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. SHOW ALL WORKINGS.
SECTION A:
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3 pyramid of sides 6cm has a ve
(a) The sloping heig (2mks)
The tor (mks)
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. (c) The volu
ff in the ratio 4:7:9. Determine the length
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Alot of 200me area
2, (a) Solve by factor method x?-4x =12.
{b) A factory is to be built on a lot measu Ani sy Bale
and area equal to that of the factory surrounds the factory. Fi
(the width of the lawn
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{ii) the dimension of the factor
following equations for xand
{b)A surveyor submitted a report that paals were placed according
Along road Lame lots 2
A 30 10 660m
Calculate the distance along each iot mks)
4, Simplify:
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(bax 2) +3(@ Rees)
()(5-a)? (a+)
(a) = (amk)
SECTION C:_ TRIGONOMETRY
| 1, (a) Solve the equations in the domain 0' to 360°.
()—Tanxsinx~tan x: sinxt2 =0.
(ii) A cos’ x -8 cos x+3 =0 (3mks)
‘{b) Give angles in the range 0° to 360° Whose:
siniso.3150
Raina i9 20 en sot P
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pass through a mountain at ground level, @
Jevel and views the ends
jm. Find the length
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2. Todetermine the length of tunnel to
surveyor positions himself away at a vantage point on the same
at an included angle of 85". The distances to the ends are 70m and 30
ithe tunnel,(a) Prove that:
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(ii) (1#sinx) (1 - sinx) = cos*x (2mks)
(b) Use triangles to find the values for:
{i) sin 45° tan 30° 7
(ii) cos 30° sin 30" :
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(ii) sin 60° cos 45° (3mks)
lor stands on one bank of a crocodile infested river and views point Con the
fe bank from point A with an angle of 70°. She walks for 80m, passes point C to
and views point C at-an angle of AO. Find the distances ACand BC.
SECTION D:_ GEOMETRY (25MKS)
A sphere has a great circle of circumference 7040m. Calculate:
‘The circumference of a small circle which makes an angle of 40° with the vertical
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