THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL OF TANZANIA

ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS FOR STANDARD SEVEN PUPILS

04E MATHEMATICS

Time: 2:00 Hours YEAR: 2021

Instructions

1. This paper consists of sections A and B with a total of forty five (45) questions.
2. Answer all questions in each section.
3. Read all the instructions in the special answer sheet (OMR).
4. Fill in all required information in OMR form and on the page with question 41 to 45.
5. Shade the digits of your Examinations Number in the respective places of the OMR form.
6. Shade the letter of the correct answer for question 1 to 40 in the answer sheet provided. For
example, if the correct answer is A, shade as follows:

7. If you have to change your answer, you must use a clean rubber to rub out the shading neatly before
shading the new one.
8. Use HB pencil only to answer question 1 to 40; and a blue or black pen for question 41 to 45.
9. Show all work clearly for question 41 to 45 in the space provided on OMR form.
10. Cellular phones and any unauthorised materials should not be used.

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 SECTION A: MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS, FIGURES AND WORD PROBLEMS

For each of the questions 1 – 40, work out the answer, then choose the correct option and shade its
corresponding letter in the special answer sheet (OMR) provided.

No Question Working Space

1. Which of the following fractions represents the

simplest fraction of 45%?
9 2
A B
2 9
9 20
C D
20 9
45
E .
10

2. The Roman number representing 49 is

A LXIX B XVIX
C XLIX D LVXI
E XLXI.

3. Chausiku has 9,000 shillings. What percentage of

money is missing for her to buy a carton of 24 bottles
of juice, if each bottle of juice is sold at a price of 500
shillings?
A 75% B 33.3%
C 25% D 50%
E 66.7%.

4. Kazimoto selected five pupils to write the square root

of the sum of all odd numbers from 1 to 11. Which one
among the following is the correct answer?
A 2 B 3
C 4 D 5
E 6.
5. Five pupils were provided with the digits 1, 3, 8, 9, 2,
4, 5 to form the largest whole number. Which is the
largest number of all that was formed?
A 9,834,521 B 9,843,521
C 9,853,421 D 9,854,321
E 9,845,321.

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No Question Working Space

6. A school collected 39,076 shillings. Which digit from

this collection represents hundred’s position?
A 6 B 3
C 0 D 7
E 9.

7. The results of election of school leaders were as

follows: Zawadi got 876 votes, Baraka got 718 votes
and Waridi got 561 votes. What is the difference
between the highest and lowest number of votes in
Roman numbers?
A DLXI B CLVII
C CLVIII D DCCXVIII
E CCCXV.

8. Five pupils A, B, C, D and E competed in a race by

decreasing 6 steps in each round. If they started at 59th
step, who completed all rounds in the correct order?
A 59, 53, 47, 41
B 59, 65, 71, 78
C 59, 53, 41, 35
D 59, 65, 78, 84
E 59, 53, 47, 31.

9. Which is the correct order of the odd numbers between

50 and 60?
A 61, 59, 57, 55, 53
B 59, 57, 55, 53, 51
C 58, 56, 54, 52, 50
D 59, 53
E 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51.

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No Question Working Space

10. Three schools R, S and T shared 120 dozens of books

1
as follows: R got of all the books and S received
3
60% of the remaining books. If the remained books
were given to school T, how many books did school T
receive?
A 480 B 576
C 120 D 384
E 160.

11. A teacher selected five pupils to arrange the following

1
numbers 0.04, 2%, , 1 na -2. Which arrangement
4
among the following represents the correct order?
1
A 1, , -2, 0.04, 2%
4
1
B -2, 1, 0.04, 2%,
4
1
C -2, 2%, 0.04, , 1
4
1
D 1, 2%, 0.04, , -2
4
1
E 0.04, -2, 2%, 1, .
4
12. Which is the next number in the following number
pattern? 17, 21, 25, 29, ___
A 37 B 33
C 28 D 30
E 43.

13. Which is the smallest number in the following set of

numbers?
3
{0.75, -1, 0.5, 0,  }
4
A 0 B 0.5
C 0.75 D 1
3
E  .
4

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No Question Working Space

14. What is the value of 15  (14  8)?

A +90 B -37
C -90 D +330
E -330.

15. 4
How many 0.36 are there in 1 ?
5
A 50 B 2
C 5 D 20
E 500.
16. What is the product of 0.9 and 3.21?
A 2.889 B 2.789
C 28.89 D 2.31
E 4.11.
17. Josephine sells 60 chickens every month at a profit of
3,000 shillings per chicken. How much profit does
Josephine get in one year from this business?
A 21,600,000 B 2,160,000
C 720,000 D 36,000
E 180,000.
4
18. Find the value of 4  48
5
1 1
A B
5 10
1 10
C D
2 1
1
E .
100

19. A teacher gave a work to pupils to find the value of the

expression 8 - (-3 + +8). Which is the correct answer
they got?
A -3 B +19
C +13 D +3
E 13.

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No Question Working Space

20. The parents of three children Asha, Juma and Jamila

had the following amount of money: Asha’s parent
had 1,039,000 shillings, Juma’s parent has 929,000
shillings and Jamila’s 820,000 shillings. Juma’s and
Jamila’s parents would combine their money, how
much money would they exceed the amount of Asha’s
parent?
A sh 710,000 B sh 601,000
C sh 611,000 D sh 619,000
E sh 219,000.

21. Mr. Ngasa harvested the following crops; 20 sacks of

beans, 60 sacks of maize, 50 sacks of rice and 30 sacks
1
of nuts. If he sold of sacks of each crop, how many
5
sacks did he sell in total?
A 42 sacks B 32 sacks
C 22 sacks D 12 sacks
E 28 sacks.

22. A dairy farm produces 254,567 litres of milk per day.

How many litres of milk would be produced in 43
days?
A 10,646,381 litres
B 10,945,381 litres
C 10,946,381 litres
D 10,846,381 litres
E 10,746,381 litres.

23. A train left Arusha at 5 hours and 10 minutes in the

morning and used 15 hours and 15 minutes to arrive at
Dar es Salaam. At what time did the train arrive at Dar
es Salaam? (The answer should be in the form of 12
hours system).
A 2:25 am B 2:25 pm
C 8:25 pm D 8:25 am
E 9:15 pm.

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No Question Working Space

24. Four residential plots were sold for a total of 5,500,000

shillings. If three plots were sold at 1,257,000 shillings
each, how much was the fourth plot sold?
A sh 1,375,000 B sh 2,632,000
C sh 2,989,000 D sh 3,771,000
E sh 1,729,000.
25. Divide 95 years and 8 months by 28.
A 3 years and 0 month
B 3 years and 5 months
C 5 years and 3 months
D 3 years and 4 months
E 5 years and 4 months.

26. What is the sum of 6 hours 30 minutes and 3 hours 45

minutes?
A 9 hours and 75 minutes
B 9 hours and 15 minutes
C 10 hours and 05 minutes
D 10 hours and 25 minutes
E 10 hours and 15 minutes.
27. What is the difference between 8 hours 20 minutes and
5 hours 45 minutes?
A 14 hours and 05 minutes
B 2 hours 75 minutes
C 2 hours and 35 minutes
D 3 hours and 25 minutes
E 13 hours and 65 minutes.

28. 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 represent the years
in which children from five different families were
born. Which is the leap year?
A 2015 B 2016
C 2017 D 2018
E 2019.

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No Question Working Space

29. Jamali was given a picture of a pentagon with different

angles as shown in Figure 1.

120o - y

2y - 80o 3y +100o

5y
+1
4 0o y +60o

Figure 1.
As a mathematics expert, which of the following is the
value of the letter y?
A 2 B 20
C 4 D 38
E 88.

30. Juma was given a task to build a chicken cage and he

managed to build it as shown in the following figure.

As an expert in figures, How is the figure above

called?
A Isosceles triangle
B Right angled triangle
C Equilateral triangle
D Obtuse angled triangle
E Parallel triangle.

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No Question Working Space

31. Mandalu planned to use 3 days to fill a water tank of a

diameter of 14 m and height of 5 m. If he can fill the
tank with 154 m3 of water for one day, how many
extra days are needed so as to fill the whole tank? (Use
22
π= )
7
A 2 B 5
C 4 D 6
E 7.
32. If the area of trapezium ABCD is 160cm2, what is the
length of BE?

B 12 cm C

E
A D
20 cm

A 8 cm B 10 cm
C 5 cm D 20 cm
E 13 cm.

33. 1
Mwajuma was given a piece of cloth with 7
4
decametres long. How long is this cloth in metres?
A 725 m B 7.25 m
C 72,500 m D 72.5 m
E 7,250 m.

34. The parent of Kinje and and that of Kelo shared to buy
189 kg 600 g of sugar. They distributed this amount
of sugar in equal share among themselves, how much
sugar did each parent get?
A 90 kg 375 g B 94.5 kg 300 g
C 94 kg 350 g D 94 kg 800 g
E 94 kg 300 g.

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No Question Working Space

35. A bottle of water contains 350 ml of water. How many

litres do 2 cartons have, if each carton has 24 bottles?
A 1.68 litres B 168 litres
C 1,680 litres D 16.8 litres
E 0.168 litres.
36. Maganga walks at a distance of 4 km 8 m 12 cm a day.
How long will he walk in 15 days?
A 61 km 21 m 80 cm
B 61 km 21 m 180 cm
C 60 km 80 m 20 cm
D 60 km 20 m 80 cm
E 60 km 121 m 80 cm.

37. If the values of angles of a quadrilateral are 3t-10o ,

2t  25o , 45o - t and 4t  60o ; Which of the following
will be the value of letter t in that figure?
A 15o B 30o
C 60o D 90o
E 120o .

38. The perimeter of a football ground is 112 metres. If

the length of the ground is (x – 2) m and its width is
1
( 2 x - 5) m, which will be the value of x?
2
A 56 B 98
C 18 D 14
E 42.

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No Question Working Space

39. A Classroom has a total of 9 pupils. The average

weight of 5 pupils is 20 kilograms. Find the total
weight of the remaining pupils if their average weight
is 30 kilograms.
A 50 kilograms B 450 kilograms
C 100 kilograms D 220 kilograms
E 130 kilograms.
40. If the mean of sh 100, sh 250, sh 350 and sh 3p is sh
205, what will be the value of letter ‘p’?
A 40 B 120
C 85 D 165
E 161.

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 SECTION B: MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS, FIGURES AND WORD PROBLEMS

For each of the questions 41-45, use a blue or black pen to work out the answer in the space provided on the
OMR form.

No. Question Working Place

41. The number of pupils who completed standard seven in

the year 2018 in our Ward was 600. Among these,
1
7 % did not pass the examination. What is the fraction
2
of pupils who passed the examination?

42. Three vertices of a certain rectangular farm are A (-4,1),

B (-4,-2) and C (3,-2). Use the coordinates graph to find
the fourth vertex.
43. Mtakuja village planned to build a dispensary in a plot
represented by the following Figure:

7m

10 m

8m

19 m

How many square metres of area does the plot have?

44. In Railway primary school, when a pupil scores grade A
in any subject, the school owner pays the subject teacher
10,000 shillings for every A in his/her subject as
motivation. If a Mathematics teacher earned 1,250,000
shillings, how many pupils scored grade A in that
subject?

45. Bahati had 8 pens and 12 pencils. She decided to give 3

pens and 5 pencils to her friends. If she sold the
remained pens for 200 shilling each and the remained
number of pencils for 100 shillings each; How much
money did she earn?

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