FORM 4 TRIAL 4.

1 2008 PAPER I SAMPLE HOURS

SECTION I answer all questions (50 marks)

1. Use logarithms to evaluate to 3 significant figures (4marks)

2. A train 146m long traveling at 60km/h passes a train 204m long traveling at 40km/h in the opposite
direction. How long do they take to pass one another? (3 marks)

3. Water flows through a pipe, internal diameter 3cm at 3.6m/s. How many litres are delivered per
minute? (2 marks)
4. is a root of the equation find b and the other root. [4marks]

5. A crate contains 33 dozen-golf balls; some are sold as shs136 a dozen and the rest at shs180 a dozen.
The average price is shs13 per ball. How many are there of each king? (3 marks)
6. A and B own a business between them and the ratio of A’s share to B’s share is 11:9. If B sells of
his share to A for shs72, 000 find the value of the business and the % of the business then owned by
A. (3 marks)

7. A gun, whose range is 9000m, is 5000m from a straight railway line. What length of the railway line
is commanded by the gun? (3 marks)

8. Simplify completely (3 marks)

9. In a certain proper fraction, the denominator is greater than the numerator by 3. If 2 is added to both
the numerator and the denominator the fraction increases by 2
21 . Find the fraction. (4 marks)

10. In a parallelogram ABCD the vertices A, B and D are of co-ordinates (1, 0) (3, -4) and (3, 4)
respectively. Find by vector calculation the co-ordinates of C. (3 marks)

11. The volumes of 2 similar cans are 288cm3 and 4500cm3. Find the without using a calculator, the
surface area the smaller can if that of the bigger can is 120cm2 (3 marks)

12. A line parallel to the line 2y = 3x + 4 passes through the point (6, 3). Find the co-ordinates of the
point where it cuts the x-axis. (3 marks)

13. In a rhombus of side5 cm, each of the two acute angles is 840. Find the length of the shorter diagonal.
(3 marks)

14. At Find the integral values of x that satisfy the inequalities below: (3 marks)

15. A cone of slant height 8cm is formed from a circle sector of angle 1080. Find the area of the cone.
(3marks)
16. A trader imported a computer for which he paid import duty of 125% of the purchase price. He later
sold it to a customer to give him a profit of %. If the customer paid shs24, 000 for the computer,
find the purchase price. (3marks)

SECTION II answer any five questions in this section (50 marks)

17. Birds A, B and C are resting on 3 different trees which all lie in a straight line. Bird A is 66.5m
above the ground, and bird C is 52.3m above the ground. The horizontal distance between A and C is
102.3m. Bird B which is resting on a tree between A and C can observe bird A at an angle of
elevation of 42013’ and can also observe C at an angle of elevation of 28015’. Calculate

(i) The horizontal distance between A and B. (4marks)

(ii) the height from the ground at which B is resting (3marks)
(iii) The angle of depression of Bird B to Bird A when Bird B flies 50.5 metres vertically
above the point it was originally. (3 marks)

18. The figure shows a hollow closed vessel

consisting of a cylinder fitted to a cone. The
cylinder has internal diameter of 80cm and height 48
40cm. The base diameter and the height of the 64
cone are 80cm and 64cm respectively. The vessel
as shown is filled with liquid whose surface level
is 48cm below the vertex of the cone.

a) Calculate the volume of the liquid in litres. (4 marks)

40
b) Calculate the surface area of the parts in contact
with the water (3 marks)

c) If the water is poured to fill a cylindrical

container whose height is twice its radius, calculate its
dimensions (3 marks) 80

19. In the figure below AB = , AD = , AX : XC = 2 :3 and DX : XB = 4 :5

B C

a X
Y

Express A D
a) i) AC b
ii) DC in terms of a and b in the simplest form. (6marks)
b) Given that XY is parallel to AD, determine the vector CY in terms of a and b only (4 marks)
21. An aircraft moving at a constant speed of 300km/h leaves A to B on a bearing of 0660 in 2 hours. It
takes a further hours to reach C; the bearing of B from C being 3060. It then takes 3 hours from C
to D; the bearing of D from B being 1650.
It finally heads in the westward direction from D to E. E is on a bearing of 2200 from A.
Using a scale of 1cm to represent 100km, represent this information in a scale diagram and using
your drawing,
Find
(a) The time taken to move from D to E.
(b) The total time it will take to fly from A to E via B, C, D without stopping (10 marks)
22. [Solutions to this question by accurate drawing will not be accepted]
The diagram shows a trapezium ABCD in which AB is parallel to DC. The point A lies on the y-axis.
Points B and D are (6, 13) and (1 respectively. Angles ABC and BCD are 900. Given that the
equation of DC is , find
a) The equation of AB[3marks]

B(6,13)

D(1,-2)
b) The equation of BC [3marks]
c) The coordinates of A and C. [4marks]

22. A certain number of people agreed to contribute equally to buy books worth sh1225 for a school
library. Nine people pulled out, so the others agreed to contribute on extra sh10 each. Their collection
enabled them to buy books worth sh175 more than originally expected.
a. If the original number of people were x write an expression of how much each was originally
going to contribute (1mark)
b. Write an expression of how much each contributed after 5 people pulled out (1mark)
c. Calculate how many people really made contribution. (5marks)
d. State how each contributed (1marks)
e. Calculate the % increase in the contribution per person caused by the pulling out, giving your
answer to one decimal place. (2 marks)
23. An irregular pentagon ABCDE is rotated +600 about point M as shown below. Calculate the
following if angles A, B, C, and E are 1180, 1100, 1050 and 1070 respectively giving sufficient reasons
where necessary. A
a. Angle MDE [3marks]
b. Obtuse angle BZR [3marks] Z
V R
E
c. Angle SDE [2marks] B

d. Angle BZV [2marks]

S

U C
M D
T
24. A plane shape has x = 2, y = and y = x as lines of reflection. One of its vertices is at (6,0).

i. Draw figure on a graph paper and show all the other vertices. (4 marks)

ii. Show and state the equation of any other line(s) of reflection. (2 marks)

iii. Define fully any other symmetry that would apply to the figure. (2 marks)

iv. Calculate the area of the figure (2 marks)