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MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1
TIME: 2 HOURS 30 MINUTES
2016
SEPTEMBER STRATHMORE POST MOCKS
KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (K.C.S.E)
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
a) Write your name and index number on the spaces provided above.
b) The paper consists of two sections: Section I and Section II.
c) Answer all questions in Section I and only Five in Section II.
d) All working and answers must be written on the question paper in the spaces provided below each
question.
e) Marks may be awarded for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
f) Negligence and slovenly work will be penalized.
g) Non programmable silent electronic calculators and K.N.E.C Mathematical tables are allowed for
use.
FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY
SECTION I
QUESTION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 TOTAL
MARKS

SECTION II
QUESTION 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 TOTAL
MARKS

GRAND TOTAL

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 Section I (Answer all questions in this section) (50 marks)

1. The figure below shows a map of a forest drawn on a grid of 1cm squares

(a) Estimate the area of the map in square centimetres (1 mark)

(b) If the scale of the map is 1:50000 estimate the area of the forest in hectares (2 marks)

2. Simplify completely
(4 marks)
2
2x – 98 ÷ x+7
3x2 – 16x – 35 3x + 4

3. Rose bought a golden necklace for ksh.6000 and sold it to Betty at a loss of 30%. Betty later sold it
at a profit of 20%. What was Betty’s selling price. (2 marks)

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4. The figure below shows quadrilateral ABCD in which AB = 6cm. BC= CD , CD = DA and angle
2
0
ADC = angle BCD = 90 .
A
D

B C

Calculate the area of the quadrilateral ABCD. (3marks)

5. A fruit juice dealer sells juice in packets of 300ml, 500ml and 700ml. Find the size of the smallest
container that will fill each of the packets and leave a remainder of 200ml. (3 marks)

6. Solve for y given that y is acute and sin (3y – 500) – cos (2y + 100) = 0 (3 marks)

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7. The diagram below shows a sector AOB of a circle, centre O. and arc AB is of
length 12 cm.

(a) Determine the radius OA of the circle (1 mark)

(b) Calculate the area of the shaded segment. Give your answer to 3 S.F (2 marks)

8. 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)

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9. A straight line l 1 passes through points (2 , 9) and (−4 , k ) and is perpendicular to another straight line
l 2whose equation is3 y−x−2=0. Determine:
i) The value of k (1 mark)

ii) The equation of line l 1 (2marks)

10. The figure below represents a cross-section of a regular hexagonal pipe of side 10cm with a circular
hole of diameter 6.3cm.

Determine, to the nearest cm3 , the volume of the material used to make the pipe if it has a length of
22
5m. (Useπ= ¿ (4 marks)
7

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11. The sum of digits in a two digit number is 16. When the number is subtracted from the number
formed by reversing the digits the difference is 18. Find the number. (3 marks)

12. Four points A, B, C and D have coordinates (4, 3), (x, y), (−1 , 4 ) and (2, 1) respectively. Given that
3AB=2CD, find the position vector of B in terms of i and j (3 marks)

8 4
13. Evaluate the without using tables or a calculator
6 log 2 √ 512+10 log 8 √ 256−log64 0. 5 (3 marks)

14. If x = 2/3 is a root of 6x2 + kx – 2 = 0, find the value of k and the other root. (3 marks)

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15. In the figure below, RQP is an arc of a circle centre O. Line TPS is a tangent to the circle at P.
Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, locate the centre O of the circle and hence complete the
circle. Construct an equilateral triangle ABC to inscribe the circle given that points B and C are on
the line TS. (4 marks)

16. In a regular polygon the sum of the interior angles is 24 times the size of one exterior angle.
Determine the number of sides in the polygon. (3 marks)

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Section II (Answer FIVE questions only in this section) (50 MARKS)
17. A businessman bought x bags of maize at a cost of shs. 960 per bag. He spent shs. 85 per bag on
transport. He later sold the maize at shs. 39 per tin making a profit of shs. 515 per bag.
(i) Calculate the number of tins in one bag (3 marks)

(ii) If the businessman made total sales of shs. 29 640. How many bags had he sold? (2 marks)

(iii) The businessman later used the total sales to buy more maize at shs.926.25 per bag. He sold
half the bags of the maize to millers at the rate of shs.1390 per bag and retailed the remaining at his
stall to consumers at sh.39 per tin.Calculate his percentage profit. (5
marks)

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18. A square floor is fitted with identical rectangular tiles. The length of the floor is 9.6 m. The
perimeter of each of the tiles is 220 cm. Each row (tile lengthwise) carries 20 less tiles than each

column (tiles breadthwise). Taking to represent the width of the tile,

(a) Write the expression in the number of tiles on both row and column. (2 marks)

(b) Calculate the dimensions of the tiles. (4 marks)

(c) Find the number of tiles needed to cover the whole floor of the room. (1 mark)

(d) Find the cost of fitting, if the tiles are sold in dozen at sh 1 500 per dozen and the labour cost is
sh300. (2 marks)

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 19. (a) On the grid below draw the triangle A' ( 5 ,2 ) B' ( 1 , 2 ) C ' (1 , 6) (1 mark)

(b) Triangle A ' B' C ' is the image of the triangle ABC after an enlargement scale factor 2 centre(3 ,−8).
Draw triangle ABC and state its coordinates. (2 marks)

(c) Draw triangle A ' ' B' ' C ' ' the image of A ' B' C ' after a reflection in the line x=−1 (2 marks)
(d) Draw triangle A ' ' ' B ' ' ' C ' ' ' the image of A ' ' B' ' C ' ' after a positive quarter turn about (0 , 0)
(e) (i) Describe the transformation that maps A ' B' C ' onto A ' ' ' B ' ' ' C ' ' ' (2 marks)

(ii) State a pair of triangles that are directly congruent (1 mark)

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20. Five points P, Q, R, V and T represent positions on a compound. Point Q is 208m directly South of
P. R is 304m and S 48 0 E from P and is due East of Q. Given that T is 268m and S 670 W from Q and
point V is 200m directly South of R.
(a) Using a scale of 1 cm represents 40m, draw a scale diagram showing the relative positions of P, Q,
R, V and T. (4 marks)

(b) Using the scale diagram, determine

(i) The distance and bearing of point T from V (2 marks)

(ii) The bearing of point R from T (1 mark)

(c) The area enclosed by the polygon PQTVR in hectares (3 marks)

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21. Two factories A and B produce both chocolate bars and éclairs. In factoryA it costs Shs. c and Shs. e
to produce 1 kg of chocolate bars and éclairs respectively. The cost of producing 1 kg of chocolate
bars and 1 kg of éclairs in factory B increases cost of éclairs of A by the ratio 6:5 and reduce cost of
chocolate of A by the ratio 4:5 respectively.
(a) Given that it costs Shs. 460,000 to produce 1 tonne of chocolate bars and 800kg of éclairs in factory
A and Shs.534, 000 to produce the same quantities in factory B form two simplified simultaneous
equations showing this information. (2 marks)

(b) Use matrix method to find the cost of producing 500 kg of chocolate bars and 1500 kg of éclairs in
factory A. (5 marks)

(c) Use matrix method to find the cost of producing 1100kg of chocolate bars and 1150kg of éclairs in
factory B. (3 marks)

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22. Kamur hardware constructed tank A to hold rain water. The tank has a square base of 9.5 m and a
vertical side of 4m.
a. What volume of water was collected using the tank if it was filled after the rain? (2 marks)

b. The owner realized that the amount of water collected was not enough. He intended to construct
a tank so as to contain 500m3 of rain water after the harvest. He decided to construct another
similar tank B. What must be the dimensions of the new tank if the area of the sheet metal to be
used in its construction is to be minimum to save on the cost? (5 marks)

c) The hardware sold the harvested rain water at Khs. 5 per 20 litre container. Calculate the loss in
terms of money the hardware incurred when using tank A to harvest the rain water than tank B.
(3 marks)

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23. The figure below shows a composite solid with a frustum, a cuboid and a right pyramid. If the
cuboid is removed, the frustum and the small pyramid when joined will make a bigger right
pyramid. The smaller square-based pyramid has a slant height of 4cm. The dimensions of the bottom
and top squares are 5 cm and 2cm respectively.
Given that the volume of the cuboid and the volume of the small pyramid are equal,
a. Calculate the height of the whole solid. (7marks)
b. Determine the angle between XY and ZY (3 marks)

4
X

2
2

2
Z

5
Y
5

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24. A curve is represented by the function

(a) Find (1 mark)

(b) (i) Determine the values of stationary points of the curve. (2 marks)

(ii) For each stationary point, determine whether it is a minimum, a maximum or a point of
inflection. (2 marks)

(c) In the space provided, sketch the curve of the function (2 marks)

(d) Determine the area bounded by the curve and the x – axis between x=1 and x=2 (3 marks)

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