THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL : KCPE 2023 503 MATHEMATICS Oct. 2023 — 2 hours e 4 BND 10. of NS TO. Do any necessary rough work in this question paper. When you have chosen your answer, mark it on the ANSWER SHEET only, You should NOT mark your answers on this question paper. nome us ray te ‘SHEET Use an ordinary pencil only. >a. Confirm that the answer shé e following: Do not make a Keep the sheet (On the answer shed, —- youve choses weno Example Inthe 1 wnat ot 2 A. 30 82 oA c 0 eo Ae? Tae On the answers In the set of boxes numbered t indicated below. eee Your dark line MUST be ins For each question, ONLY ONE box is to be marked in each set of four boxes. ‘This question paper consists of 16 printed pags ‘THE LAST KCPE EXAMINATION (© 2023 The Kenya National Examinations Council 317038 03 Turn over3; 4 ‘What is three million forty cight thousand Working Space two hundred and fifty seven written in numerals? A. 3048257 B. 3408257 C. 3480257 D. 3084257 ‘What is the place value of 7 in the number. 9843.0712 A. Tens B. Tenths C.—-Hundredths D. Hundreds ‘What is the next number in the pattern shown below? bdd2, pop p ee ee What is 3 asa percentage? Aes ut B18} C. 36E D374 Charity cycled from home to school a distance of 12 kilometres. She started the journey at 7.20 a.m and arrived at 8.00 am. What was her speed in metres per second? Aye 2.5 Boss CQ, 10 D. 18 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023 036. as A 40 B96 ca D144 8 —_Asschool received five thousand and forty ‘two books. The books were delivered in ‘two lorries. The first lorry had three thousand and sixteen books. How many ‘books were in the second lorry? A 2026 B. 2036 C. 7068 D. 8058 317038, The figure below shows a trapezium UWXY. Line YX is parallel to line UW. The perpendicular distance between the parallel lines is 12 cm and line YX = 18 cm. ‘The area of the trapezium is 252 em. What is the length of line UW? A 16cm B. 18cm Cc. em D. 39cm A teacher shared pencils among his learners, ~ The girls received 3 of the pencils and the boys received # of the remainder. The {= teacher remained with 8 pencils. How ‘many pencils did the teacher have before sharing? ‘Working Space Kenya Certificate of Primary Education. 2023 Turn over10. i. 12. 2B. What is the value of 4ofG-DaH? ‘Working Space Aare Bet vod De 3 Cylindrical tins each of diameter 20 cm and a height of 15 cm were packed in a carton. The carton measured 120 cm long, 80 cm wide and 30 cm high. How many tins were packed in the carton? A 6 B48 ew Dig ‘What is the value of 16:8%0.054 » 0.072 A. 00126 B. 126 Ciae Dd. 126 ‘Asscale drawing of a rectangular plot of land measures 3 cm by 2m. The scale ‘used is 1:2000. What is the actual area of the plot in ares? A. 24000 B. 2400 Cc. 240 Di 228: ‘What is the value of x in the equation 317038 Kenya Certfieate of Primary Education, 2023 ‘50314. as. 16. 17. 18, 317038 ‘What is 567432 rounded off to the nearest ten thousands? 560000 : 567000 570000 pa 600000 poe> Three bells ring at intervals of 12 minutes, 24 minutes and 36 minutes. They rang 39s» together at 10.00 a.m. When was the last = J time they rang together before 10.00 a.m? A 848am B 8.48pm Cc A2am D. 1.12pm The area of a semicircle is 39.25 cm? ‘What is the length of the diameter? (Take x =3.14) A 250m B. 10cm Cc. 6em D. Sem A pupil reported to a boarding school on 27" January, 2019. He went for a ‘mid-term break on 18* March 2019. How many nights did he spend in school? A 49. B50 C35 D. a The area ofa square plot of land is 0.0576 hectares. The plot was fenced all round using five strands of wire. What was the total length of the wire used? 480m 192m + 96m 24m pop> Working Space Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023 503 Turn over19. 20. ai 22, Working Space Apipe has a diameter of 0.7 m and a length of 3 m. The outer surface of the pipe was painted. What was the area that ‘was painted? A. 13.2 m* B. 104m? Cc 66m D. 22m What isthe vaue of 2°42) +7, TAy=a when n=2,r=3 and y= 5? A 104 B. 12h c. 23 D. 138 ‘A printing press produced 11457 books on Monday. It produced 308 more ‘books on Tuesday than on Monday. On Wednesday, it produced 4796 less books than the total number produced both on Monday and Tuesday. How many books were produced in the three days? A. 16561 B. 18426 Cc. 222 D. 41648 cylindrical container has a diameter of 56 cm and a height of 30cm. The container is half filled with water, How many litres of water are in the container? 22) (take ® 2) A 258.72 B. 147.84 Cee D. 36.96 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023 50323. 4. 25, Construct triangle PQR such that line PQ= 10cm and angle RPQ= angle RQP= 40°. Construct a circle that touches the vertices P, Q and R. What is the ‘measure of the diameter ofthe circle? Working Space A. 10cm B. Sem C. 36cm D. 18em A van is loaded with 120 cartons each containing 40 packets of salt. The mass ‘of each empty carton is 500 g and that of each packet of salt is 750 g. What is the total mass of the load in kilograms? A 36600 B. 3660 Cc. 3600 D. 3540 Kelvin deposited sh 15 000 in a bank. The bank paid compound interest at the rate of 12% per annum, What was the total interest paid by the bank at the end of two years? A sh 18816 B. sh3816 C.— sh3.600 D. — sh2016 ‘Ntimama had 40 cows and 55 goats in his farm. He sold 10% of the cows and increased the number of goats by 20%. ‘What was the new number of animals in the farm? A 110 B. 106 Cig D. 80 317038 Kenya Cerificate of Primary Education, 2023 $0321. 28. 29. 30. The area of aright angled triangle is Working Space 54cm’. The length of one of the shorter sides is 12 em. What is the perimeter of the triangle? A 15cm B 21cm C. 36cm D. 420m A.saleslady ears a basic salary of ‘sh 10 500 per month. She also earns commission on sales above sh 100 000. In one month, she sold items worth ‘sh 150 000 and earned a total of sh 18 000. ‘What was the percentage commission? Kes Baek Gein DB. 15 A rectangular floor measures 7.5 m long and 2.5 m wide. The floor is covered with square tiles of side 0.5 m, How many tiles ‘were used to cover the floor completely? 42 15 38 28 pop> What is the value of 1(3? + 4)-5x8+2+67 ATT B 4256 Cs B35 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 202331. 32. 33. 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023 503 ‘The following figure shows a triangle drawn inside a semicircle. Working Space Xo ‘What is the area of the shaded part in em*? (Toke x 2) c 7 A. 775.25 B. 481.25 c. 294.00 D. 187.25 ‘What isthe square of 6? A 1564 Bo (39d Cc 36k De oat A family uses 30 decilitres of milk everyday. How many litres of milk did they use during the months of February and March 2016? A 186 B83 Cc. 180 Doe ‘Turn over38. 37. 10 A cuboid measures 6 em long, $ em wide and 4.cm high. What is the total length of the edges? ‘Working Space ASS 30 B60 Gee 90: D. 120 ‘The cash price of a sewing machine is sh 24.800. The hire purchase price is 15% more than the cash price. Joseph purchased the machine on hire purchase terms. He paid a deposit of sh 8 520 and ten equal monthly instalments. How mucl was the monthly instalment? A. sh 20000 B. sh2852 C. sh2480 D. — sh2000 The average mass of 36 pupils is 45 kg. ‘The average mass of the pupils together with their teacher is 46 kg. How much ‘more is the mass of the teacher than the average mass of the pupils? AL 127kg B. 82kg Co Stkg D. 36kg ‘The marked price of a bag of beans was sh 4 500. A school bought eight bags of beans at a total cost of sh 34 400. What was the total discount allowed? A. sh200 B. sh 1600 Cc. sh4300 D. — sh4700 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Edwcation, 2023 50338. A trader bought 10 crates of soda at sh 600 per crate. He paid sh 30 per crate | for transportation. Each crate of soda‘! contained 24 bottles but ten bottles broke!” during transportation. He later sold each! bottle of soda for sh 30, What percentage’ profit did the trader make? : Working Space 20 43 i 10 D9 ae > 39. Apoultry farmer bought the following items: 2 chick feeders @ sh 85 5 bags of chick mash @ sh 450 4 bags of growers mash @ sh 650 2 packets of chick formula for sh 150 ‘She paid for the items using 6 one thousand shilling notes. How much balance did she. get? A. sh680 B. sh830 C. sh 4665 D. sh5170 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023 $03 ‘Turn over40. In the figure shown, lines RS and TU are parallel. Line VW is a transversal. Working Space Which one of the following statements is correct? A. Anglea=Anglef B Angle (¢ + e) = 180" C.— Angle (g +4)= 180" D. — Angle(d+h)= Angle(a+e) 41. Juma bought a pair of trousers for sh r. He also bought a pair of shoes for twice the price of a pair of trousers and a shirt for half the price of the pair of trousers. He paid using two sh x notes. Which one of the following expressions represents the balance Juma got? A x-34r B. 2x-3}r C. 2x+3}r De ecpzatr. 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023 0313 42. The following pie chart shows sales made by ‘Working Space a farmer in a certain day. The value of the sales for maize was sh 880. What was the value of the sales » for bananas? A sh 1760 1 B. sh2420 Cc sh 2 860 % D. sh 7920 489% B. 4<02 Cc 4-085 D. 036>3, 47. Construct triangle PQR such that line PQ=8cm, angle RPQ= 45° andangle © PRQ= 75°. Construct a perpendicular line from point R to meet line PQ at M. What ¢ is the measure of line RM? A 29cm B. 5.0cm Cc. 59cm € D. 72cm 317038 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023,1s a ‘Working Space ‘The following table shows a timetable for 2 certain aeroplane plying from Airport S to Airport V. Ail ‘Arrival time _[ Departure time} Ss 1400h zt 1450 1510h U 1610h 1620h v 1805 h ‘A passenger arrived at Airport T at 1.30 p.m. } How long did the passenger have to wait to. | depart from the airport? A. 20 minutes : B. 30 minutes C.-T hour 20 minutes D, 1 hour 40 minutes 49, Brenda has x books. Amina has thrice as] ‘many books as Brenda. Juma has 10 books less than the total number of books both Brenda and Amina have. They have a total § of 86 books altogether. Which one of the following equations can be used to find the number of books Brenda has? poe> 317038 Konya Certificate of Primary Education, 2023 503 ‘Turn overWorking Space 50. The bar graph below shows the amount cof milk, in litres, a farmer got from his farm in one week Which two days following each other in the week had the highest total production of milk? A Tuesday and Wednesday B. Wednesday and Thursday C. Wednesday and Sunday D. Saturday and Sunday 317038 Kenya Cerificate of Primary Education, 2023 503 »