GOODNEWS SECONDARY SCHOOL, ISUA

SECOND TERM EXAMINATION 2023/2024 SESSION

CLASS: SS2
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS
DURATION: 2 Hrs 30 Mins
Instruction: Attempt ALL questions in Section A and FOUR in Section B

SECTION A: OBJECTIVES (30 Marks)

1) Express 0.000502 in standard form
(A) 5.02 × 10-6
(B) 5.02 × 10-4
(C) 5.02 × 10--3
(D) 5.02 × 103
2) If θ = 248⁰, which one of the following statements is false?
(A) tan θ > 0 (B) tan θ = tan 68⁰ (C) sin θ < 0 (D) sin θ = - sin 22⁰
(E) tan θ > sin θ
3) In the diagram below, find /AC/.

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 12 (D) 6 (E) 18

4) What is the value of (x + c )²?
(A) x² + c² (B) x² + cx + c² (C) x² + c²x² + c² (D) x² + cx² + c²x + c² (E) x² + 2cx +
c²
5) (x² + 5x – 7)(x + 2) =
(A) x³ + 3x² - 17x – 14 (B) x³ + 5x² - 7x + 14 (C) x³ + 7x² + 17x - 14 (D) x³ + 7x² +
3x – 14 (E) 2x³ + 10x² - 14x
6) If 2x + 3y = 4 and 3x – y = 6, then x =
(A) 0 (B) 1/2 (C) 2/3 (D) 1 (E) 2
7) Given that 3x + 7y = 1 and x – 7y = 19, then x + y =
(A) -2 (B) -3 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 7
8) If x + 2y = 0 and 4x – 3y = 11, find the value of x + 2y.
(A) -3 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 3
9) The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is five. If the digits are reversed, the
new number is nine greater than the original number. If the digits of the original
number are x and y, where y is the units digit, which of the following pairs of
equations represents the given information?
(A) x + y = 5; x – y = 9 (B) x + y = 5; x – y = 1
(C) x + y = 5; y – x = 1 (D) x + y = 5; y – x = 9
(E) 10x + y = 5; 10x – y = 9.
10) The straight line x + y = 2 and the curve x² + y² = 10 intersect at the point (3, -
1). They also intersect at the point:
(A) (-3, 1) (B) (-3, -1) (C) (3, 1) (D) (-1, 3) (E) (1, -3)
11) What is the range of values of x shown in the figure below?

(A) x < -2 (B) x > -2 (C) x < 0 (D) x <= -2 (E) x >= -2
(12) Given that x is an integer, what is the greatest value of x which satisfies
4 – 3x > 24? (A) -7 (B) -6 (C) -3 (D) 6 (E) 7
(13) Solve 2x – 3 < 5. (A) x < 1 (B) x > 1 (C) x < 2 (D) x < 4 (E) x > 4.
(14) x and y are positive numbers such that 3x < y. Which of the following
statements is not true?
 y
(A) -3x > -y (B) -3x < -y (C) 9x < 3y (E) x < 3

The table below shows the ages of some members of a senior school choir.
Ages (years) 15 16 17 18
Number of 5 6 3 1
students

Use the information to answer questions 15 and 16.

(15) What is the mean age of the students?
(A) 15 yrs (B) 16 yrs (C) 16.5 yrs (D) 17 yrs (E) 18 yrs
(16) What is the median age in the table?
(A) 15 yrs (B) 16 yrs (C) 16.5 yrs (D) 17 yrs (E) 18 yrs
(17) The mean of three numbers is 9. The mode is 11. The lowest of the three
numbers is (A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 11
(18) The average speed, in km/h, of a car that travels 72km in 45 min is
(A) 45 (B) 54 (C) 64 (D) 88 (E) 96
(19) 10 women were asked how many of their children were at Secondary School.
Their replies were: 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 4, 0, 0, 2, 1.
What is the mode of these numbers? (A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 3
(D) 2 (E) 4
(20) An athlete runs to the top of a hill and back down. Her average speed uphill is
12km/h and her average speed downhill is 6km/h. What is her average speed for
the whole journey? (A) 7km/h (B) 8km/h (C) 9km/h
(D) 10km/h (E) Cannot be found unless distance travelled is given.
(21) A girl walks 6km at a speed of 4.5km/h. How many minutes does her journey
take? (A) 27 (B) 45 (C) 80 (D) 120 (E) 1620
(22) A rope 24m long is divided into three pieces in the ratio 2:1:5. The length of
the shortest piece, in metres, is
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 15 (E) 16
(23) A fair coin is tossed once. What is the probability of getting a head or a tail?
1 1
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 1 (E) 2

(24) A die is thrown and a coin is tossed. What is the probability of getting a 1 and
1 1 1 1 2
a head together? (A) 12 (B) 6 (C) 3 (D) 2 (E) 3

(25) A fair die with faces numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is rolled. What is the probability
of getting a prime number?
1 1 1 2 5
(A) 6 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 6

(26) A bag contains five red balls, four white balls and three blue balls. A ball is
picked at random from the bag. What is the probability that it is either red or blue?
1 5 1 5 2
(A) 12 (B) 48 (C) 4 (D) 12 (E) 3

(27) If the bearing of X from Y is 104⁰, what is the bearing of Y from X?

(A) 014⁰ (B) 076⁰ (C) 104⁰ (D) 256⁰ (E) 2840
(28) Express the true bearing 210⁰ as a compass bearing. (A) S30⁰W (B) S30⁰E
(C) N30⁰W (D) S60⁰E (E) S60⁰W
(29) Given ∆XYZ, x = 6, y = 3, z = 4, cos X =
−11 −9 −1 11 11
(A) 24 (B) 24 (C) 12 (D) 12 (E) 24

(30) From the top of a building 10m high, the angle of depression of a stone lying
on the horizontal ground is 69⁰. Calculate the distance of the stone from the foot of
the building in metres to 1 decimal place.
(A) 3.6m (B) 3.8m (C) 6.0m (D) 9.3m (E) 26.1m

SECTION B: THEORY (40 Marks)

Instruction: Attempt any four questions and show your workings clearly.
1) (a) A ship leaves port and travels 21km on a bearing of 032⁰ and then 45km on a
bearing of 287⁰.
(i) Calculate its distance from the port.
(ii) Calculate the bearing of the port from the ship.
2) A bag contains ten marbles, seven of which are black and three are red. Three
marbles are drawn one after the other without replacement. Find the probability of
choosing:
(a) one red, one black and one red (in that order) (b) two black marbles
(c) at least two black marbles (d) at most two black marbles.
3) To staff a tailoring company, a business woman needs at least 6 cutters and 10
seamstresses. She doesn’t want to employ more than 25 people altogether. To be
effective, a cutter needs 2 tables to work on and a seamstress needs 1 table. There
are only 40 tables available.
If x and y are the numbers of cutters and seamstresses respectively; (a) write down
four inequalities that represent the restrictions on the businesswoman.
(b) draw a graph that shows a region representing possible values of x and y.
(c) find the greatest value of y.
4) (a) Solve the simultaneous equations
3x + y = 10; 2x² + y² = 19.
(b) If 1 is added to both numerator and denominator of a fraction, the fraction
1 2
becomes 2 . If 8 is added to both, the fraction becomes 3 . What is the fraction ?

5) The table below shows the number of pupils (f) scoring a given mark (x) in a
test.
x 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
f 3 8 7 10 13 16 15 15 6 2 5

(a) Find the mode (b) Find the median (c) Determine the arithmetic mean.
6) (a) In ∆ABC, D is the mid-point of /AB/ and E is the mid-point of /BC/.

Calculate: (i) /DE/, if /AC/ = 8.6cm; (ii) <DEB, if <ACB = 72⁰.

(b) In ∆ABC, the internal bisector of <A meets BC at D. If /AB/ = 4cm, /AC/ =
3cm and <A = 60⁰: (i) Sketch a diagram to illustrate the information
(ii) Find the length of /AD/.