1 a) Work out;

i. 5½ ÷ ¾
ii. ⅜ ÷ 3¼
iii. 4⅘ of 1⅝ (6 marks)

b) A 7⅕ hectare of land was subdivided into 3/10 hectare plots.

How many plots were obtained? (3 marks)

c) An electrician used three pieces of wire of lengths 4½ m , 5¾ m and 1⅛ m. What was the total length
of the wire used? (3 marks)

d) A bucket contained 2½ litres of water. This water is increased 1½ times.

How much water is in the bucket? (2½marks)

e) Work out;

¼ of ⅔ + 9/5 ÷½ (3 marks)

2 a) Convert the following fractions into decimals and give your answers using the recurring decimal
notation

i. 7/11

ii. 5/9

iii. 7/18

iv. 4/15

v. 17/24

vi. 15/22 (12 marks)

b) Convert 3/11 to a decimal giving your answer correct to 2 decimal places (2½ marks)

c) Write the place value of the underlined digits in each of the following;

i. 0.7241
ii. 2.3904
iii. 14.0658 (3 marks)
3 a) Work out;

i. 28.332 ÷ 9
ii. 12 ÷ 0.24
iii. 19.5 – 6.34 – 5.6
iv. 0.5126 x 8
v. 6 x 5.296
vi. 2.034+1.68+3.007 (10 marks)

b) A metal rod costs sh. 42.80 per meter. Muendo bought 8.25 meters of the bar. Calculate the
amount of money he spent. (2½ marks)

c) A metal bar of length 14.875 meters is cut into seven equal pieces. Calculate the length of each
piece? (3 marks)

d) A tank had 340.5 litres of water. 115.50 litres were used in concreting while 78.8 litres were used in
curing. Calculate the amount of water that remained. (2 marks)

4 a) Work out;

56÷(36-29)+52

3x4 (3 marks)

b) What is 78436 ÷ 5 rounded off to the nearest thousands? (2½ marks)

c) What is the value of 1.69 ÷ 1.4 correct to 2 decimal places? (3 marks)

d) Find the L.C.M and G.C.D of each of the following pair of numbers

i. 126, 84
ii. 184, 68
iii. 63, 42 (9 marks)