NKHAMENYA ZONAL EXAMINATION BOARD

2024 END OF TERM TWO EXAMINATIONS

MATHEMATICS
100 MARKS
STANDARD 6
Name of Student:
(Surname First) Time Allowed: 2 HRS
Subject Number: P051
Name of school: Date: 07 February, 08: 00 AM

SECTION A
Answer questions by encircling the correct letter against the correct answer.

1. Change 21⁄8 to a mixed number fraction.

a. 52⁄8 c. 2 5⁄8
a. Quarter to 8 c. 7 o’clock
b. 82⁄5 d. 21 0⁄8 b. Quarter to 7 d. quarter to 7

2. Simplify 8: 12 to its lowest form. 7. Find the LCM of 8, 4 and 6.

a. 8:12 c. 2: 3 a. 24 c. 2
b. 4: 6 d. 2: 6 b. 14 d. 3

3. Which of the following numbers has been 8. Change 2 km into a distance of meters
written in figures correctly as one million, a. 20 000m c. 10 000m
three hundred and ninety two thousand, six b. 2 000m d. 200m
hundred and sixty seven?
a. 1, 392, 667 c. 1, 300, 967 9. Find the sum of 11.11, 11.1 and 1.1.
b. 1, 392, 657 d. 1, 309, 667 a. 23. 21 c. 12.32
b. 11. 23 d. 22.31
4. A shopkeeper had 2, 400, 000 eggs. If 1 108
903 were broken, how many eggs were left 10. Simplify 6 ÷ 2⁄3
unbroken?
a. 9 c. 51⁄3
a. 1291 097 c. 1 242 097
b. 3508 903 d. 4 601 097 b. 4 d. 6 1⁄6

5. A farmer made 2000 ridges in 8 days. What 11. An oxcart transported 816 bags of fertilizer.
was the rate making ridges per day? If it carried 8 bags per trip, how many trips
a. 1: 500 c. 250: 1 did the oxcart make?
b. 1: 200 d. 1: 250 a. 12 c. 824
b. 102 d. 6528
6. What time has been shown on the digital
clock face below? 12. Which of the following shapes is not an
example of a quadrilateral?
 a. Reflex, acute, obtuse, right
b. Acute, obtuse, right , reflex
c. Acute, right, obtuse, reflex
A B
d. Reflex, obtuse, right, acute.

17. Simplify 3⁄4 : 2⁄5 to its lowest form.

a. 4: 2 c. 15: 8
C D b. 3: 5 d. 12: 10

13. Express 80 tambala as a fraction of a 18. Find the difference between the fractions
kwacha. which have been shown in the figures
a. K 1⁄8 c. K 4⁄5 shaded below.

b. K 2⁄5 d. K 8⁄100

14. Convert 53⁄4 to improper fraction.

a. 53⁄4 c. 53⁄4 a. 1⁄8 c. 10⁄12
b. 20⁄𝟒 d. 23⁄4 b. 1⁄4 d. 4⁄8
15. Which of the following angles is a 90°
angle? 19. Correct 95. 14864 to 2 decimal places.
a. 95 c. 95.15
b. 95.14 d. 95.00
A B C D
16. Which of the following orders is a correct 20. Express 689.52 to the nearest whole number
ascending order of types of angles? a. 689.5 c. 700
b. 689.0 d. 690

SECTION B: 60 MARKS (SHOW YOUR WORKING)

21. (a) A flower nursery bed is 10m long and 3m wide. Find the perimeter of the nursery bed.

5 marks
(b) A tailor is going to make dresses for 5 girls. Each requires 3 m 17 cm of cloth. Find the total length
of the cloth required to make all the dresses.

5 marks
22. (a) Draw an example of each of these types of angles.
 (i) Acute angle

2 marks
(ii) Reflex angle

2 marks
(b) Using a ruler and a pencil make two dotted lines on the figure below as lines of symmetry.

2 marks
23. (a) Draw an angle by turning from North to Southwest clockwise.

4 marks
(b) Name the type of an angle drawn above.

2 marks
24. (a) Milica bought the following items on the market: 3 bags of maize at K 5, 500 per bag, 5 kgs of sugar
at K 1250.50 per kg, 2 litres of cooking oil at K 750.25 per litre and one packet of salt at K 500.10.
(i) Prepare a bill for her.

3 marks
(ii) How much change did she receive after paying K 25, 000?
 3 marks
(b) A bus conductor collected K 19080 from 12 passengers. If each passenger paid the same amount of money,
find how much each paid for the journey.

5 marks
25. Solve the following
a. 35. 417
x 1.5

5 marks

b. 105.99 ÷ 3

5 marks
26. (a) Chisomo covered 4km 400m in 2 hours. Find her rate in kilometres per hour.

4 marks
(b) Simplify the following ratio; 4 1⁄5 ∶ 3 1⁄4

5 marks
(c) Simplify these fractions 2 2⁄15 ÷ 2 2⁄3

5 marks
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