THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF IRINGA

CAGLIERO GIRLS, ST. THERESIA MIBIKI MITALI, ST. JOSEPH

IPOGOLO AND ST. JOHN PAUL II SECONDARY SCHOOLS
FORM FOUR JOINT EXAMINATION
BASIC MATHEMATICS
041
TIME:2.30 HRS YEAR, 2024
INSTRUCTIONS:
• This paper consists of sections A and B
• Answer all questions from sections A and B
• NECTA mathematical tables may be used
• All necessary working and answers for each question must be shown clearly
• Where necessary use 𝜋 = 3.14 and radius of the earth, 𝑅 = 6370𝑘𝑚
• Write your name/examination number on every page of your answer sheet(s)
SECTION A (60 Marks)
1. a) The lights at three different road crossings change after every 48 seconds, 72 seconds
and 108 second respectively. If they change simultaneously on Monday at 11:54 p.m., at
what time will they change simultaneously again?
b) Without using mathematical table evaluate the expression given below and write your
answer in standard form

(0.0004)2 𝑥 √30000𝑥√0.0003
3
√0.0000064

2. a) Solve the equation 2x = 8y+1, 9y = 3x - 9

133 13 143 77
b) Simplify log + 2log 17 – log + log 171
65 90
n −1 2n
 3  25 
c) Solve for n if   =  .
5  9 

3. a) (i) Every woman in a certain club owns a land rover or bicycle. If 23 women own land
rovers, 14 own bicycle and 5 own both land rover and a bicycle, how many women are
there in the club?
(ii) Find the number of women who own bicycle only.
b) A card is selected at random from 50 cards numbered 1 to 50. Find the probability that
the number on the card is
(i). A prime number (ii) A perfect square

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4. a) The slope of the line 𝑎𝑦 + (𝑎 + 1)𝑥 − 5 = 0 is 2, find the value of a. Hence determine
the y-intercept of the line.
1 1 2 1
b) Given vectors ~𝑎= 2 ~𝑖+ 3 ~𝑗, ~𝑏= 3 𝑖 + 3 𝑗 and ~𝑐= 𝑖 + 6𝑗, Determine the unit vector in
𝑟
the direction of the vector ~= 6 ~𝑎+ 3 ~𝑏− ~𝑐.

5. a) Given the following diagram:

i) If AMN~∆𝐴𝐵𝐶, find the length 𝑀𝑁̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅

ii) Given that 𝐴𝐶̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅ = 9𝑐𝑚, find the lenth 𝑁𝐶̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
b) Prove that the sum of interior angles of a quadrilateral is 3600.

6. a) If y varies inversely as √𝑥, and x is multiplied by n. What is the ratio of the first y to
the second y?
b) The headmaster has enough food to last for his 600 students for 20 days from tomorrow.
If 120 students leave the school today for UMISSETA game, how long will the food last?

7. a) By selling an article at Tsh. 22,500/= a shopkeeper makes loss of 10%. At what price
must the shopkeeper sell the article in order to get a profit of 10%?

b) Given the following information in the trading and profit and loss account
Opening stock Tshs. 43,000/=
Purchases Tshs.200,000/=
Carriage in Tshs. 12,000/=
Closing stock Tshs. 32,000/=
Sales Tshs.500,000/=
Expenses for the year Tshs.40,000/=
Use the above information to find ;-
(i) Gross profit
(ii) Average stock
(iii) Net profit

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 8. a) In the year 2000, a shop sold 150 computers. In every next year the shop sells 10 more
computers than the past year.
i). Show that the shop sold 220 computers in in 2007.
ii). Calculate the total number of computers the shop sold from 2000 to 2013
inclusively.
b) In a geometric progression, the first term and the common ratio are G1 and
r. If the sum of the first two terms is 12 and the third term is 16, find the value of

9. a) Given that (2𝑥 − 10)0 and (𝑥 − 5)0are complementary angles, find the value of .
b) As observed from the top of the light house 100m above the sea level, the angle of
depression of a Luxurious Marine boat sailing directly towards it changes from 300 to
450. Determine the distance travelled by the boat during the period of observation.
10. a) Factorize the expression 25(𝑥 + 3𝑦)2 − 16(𝑥 − 3𝑦)2 completely.
b) Rahul and Rohan have a total of 45 pens together. After losing 5 pens each, the product
of the number of pens they both have is 124. Find out the number of pens each had
initially if Rahul has a greater number of pens than Rohan.

SECTION B (40 Marks)

11. a) The following table gives a summary of the masses measured to the nearest gramof
200 animals from the same species.
Mass in g 75-79 80-84 85-89 90-94 95- 99 100-104
Number of animals 7 30 66 57 27 13
(i). Use assumed mean A = 54.5 to calculate the mean expenditure
(ii). Draw a cumulative frequency curve. Use the graph to estimate the median expenditure.
b) ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral and O is the centre of the circle. If < 𝐴𝐷𝐶
= 1160, what is the measure of angle < 𝐴𝑂𝐶?

12. (a). VABCD is a pyramid whose base ABCD is a square with side 6cm. The vertex V is
vertically above N (the Centre of the base) and VN = 3cm. Calculate
(i). Length VA
(ii). Angle between the line VA and the plane ABCD
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(iii). Volume of the pyramid.

b) Red Star Bus leaves Changwe (50𝑆, 390𝐸) to Minga (120𝑆, 390𝐸) at 8:00
a.m. on Monday and travels at a constant speed of 40𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟, at what time will the bus
arrive Minga?

13. a) If matrix A is singular, what will be the value of y given that

3 𝑦−1
(𝑦+1 1
)
b) Find the image of the point P (3, 5) after rotation of 270o about the origin in
anticlockwise direction.

𝑥 + 3 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 < −1
2
14. a) A function F is defined by f(x) = {𝑥 + 1 𝑓𝑜𝑟 − 1 ≤ 𝑥 < 3
10 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 ≥ 3
(i). Sketch the graph of f(x)
(ii). State domain and range of F

b) A firm manufacturing two types of electrical items A and B can make a profit of Tsh.
20,000/= per each of two components. A motor and transformer, each unit of A required 3
motor and 2 transformers and each unit B requires 2 motors and 4 transformers. The total
supply of the components per month is restricted to 210 motor and 300 transformers.
(i) How many each of A and B should the firm manufacture per month to maximize the
profit?
(ii) How much is the profit?

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