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MATHEMATICS ALT A
Paper 1
JULY 2024
2½ hours

ASUMBI GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

MOCK 2024
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Instructions to candidates
(a) Write your name and Adm number in the spaces provided above.
(b) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
(c) This paper consists of TWO sections: Section I and Section II.
(d) Answer ALL the questions in Section I and only five from Section II.
(e) All answers and working must be written on the question paper in the spaces provided below each question.
(f) Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces below each
question.
(g) Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
(h) Non – programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical tables may be used except
where stated otherwise.
(i) This paper consists of 15 printed pages.
(j) Candidates should check the question papers to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated and
that no questions are missing.

For Examiner’s Use Only

Section I
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total

SectionII
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total Grand
Total

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 SECTION I(50 Marks)
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided
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1.Expand and simplify (2� + �)2 − 4��(1 + �
) (2mks)

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2.A man spent 3
of his salary on school fees, 4 of the remainder on food and 5
of the remainder on
clothes.He was left with ksh. 4400. Determine his earnings. (3mks)

3.A man on top of a tower 35m high sees two cars P and Q on a straight level road. The angle of
depression of P was 48° and that of Q was 28°. Calculate the distance between the two cars (Give your
answer to 1 d.p.) (3mks)

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4.Solve for x and y in 32� ÷ 33� = 2187 and 23� × 26� = 1 ( 3 mks)

5.Odalo planned to buy ten books and five pens using KSh. 1100. Upon arrival at the shop she noticed that
due to inflation, the price of each book had increased by 10% while that of a pen changed in the ratio of
5:4.She therefore decided to buy seven books and three pens spending a total of Ksh. 845. Use matrix
method to find the original cost of each book (4mks)

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6.An arc of a circle subtends an angle of 3
at the centre. If the circle has a radius of 8.4cm, find the area
of the major sector to one decimal place (3mks)

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7.A Forex bureau in Kenya buys and sells foreign currency as shown below.
Currency Buying(Kshs) Selling(Kshs)
Swedish Krona 12.30 12.35
South African Rand 9.28 9.97

A Swedish businessman converted 205,250 Swedish Krona into Kenyan Shillings.While in Kenya,
the businessman spent Kshs.1,308,000 and then converted the balance to South African Rand.
Calculate the amount of money to the nearest Rand that she received (3mks)

8.Form the three inequalities that satisfy the given region R. Given lines A, B and C. (3mks)

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9.The length of three wires are 36 m, 48 m and 108 m. Pieces of wire of equal lengths were cut from the
three wires, calculate the least number of pieces obtained (3 mks)

x3  x
10.Find the equation of the normal to the curve y  at a point where x = 3. (3 mks)
x 1

11.In the figure below, A’B’C’ is the image of ABC after a reflection

(i)State the type of congruency displayed by ABC and A’B’C’ (1mk)

(ii) Complete the diagram to show the mirror line (2mks)

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12.Two towns A and B are 810 km apart. A bus left town A at 9:30 am moving towards town B at an
average speed of 84km/hr. A car left town B at 8:00 am moving towards A at an average speed of xkm/hr.
The two vehicles met at 2:30 pm. Determine the value of x, the average speed of the car.
(3mks)

13.Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct a triangle ABC in which AB = 6 cm, BC=10 cm
and angle ABC=37.50.Construct a circle to touch AB,CA produced and CB produced, hence measure its
radius (4 mks)

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14.The interior angles of an irregular polygon are (x + 40)°, 2 �°, 110°,2�°,130° and 160° . Find the size
of the greatest exterior angle (3 mks)

15. Triangle PQR is such that PQ=11cm,QR= 7.34cm and PR=8.32cm.Calculate the shortest distance from
R to line PQ (4mks)

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16.Given that sin 2 x = cos(15 + x) ,find the value of x (3mks)

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 SECTION II (50 MARKS)
Answer only five questions in this section in the spaces provided
17.The figure below shows a wooden cone of radius 10.5cm and slanting height 36cm.A hole with a
uniform cross section in form of a regular pentagon, sides 2cm is dug from the base up to a height of 15cm.
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Take π = 7

a) Determine the height of the cone (2mks)

b) Calculate the outer surface area of wooden cone to one decimal place (4mks)

c)Find the volume of the remaining wood in the cone to two decimal places (4mks)

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18.A ship sails due north from a point A for 60 km to a point B. It changes its course to N470 E and sails
up to a point C which is N250E of A,then finally to a point D ,80km on a bearing of 140° from C.

a) Using a scale of 1cm rep. 10km, represent the positions A,B,C and D on a scale drawing (4mks)

b) From the diagram,measure;

(i) The distance from A to C (2mks)

(ii) The bearing of B from D (1mk)

(iii) The bearing of D from A (1mks)

(iv) The distance from A to D (2mks)

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19.Given that �� = ��� �� = . P is a point on AB such that AP : PB = 5 : 1. R is on AB
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produced such that AR = 3 ��
(a) Determine;
(i) the displacement of AB (1mk)

(ii) the coordinates of P (2mks)

(iii) the coordinates of R (2mks)

(iv) the modulus of PR leaving your answer to 1 d.p (3mks)

(b) B is transformed by a translation T to give BI(7, 5). Find the coordinates of A under translation T.
(2mks)

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20.The function of a curve is given by y = − x2 − x + 2
3 3 3
a) Determine the y- intercept of the curve (2mks)

b) Find the equation of the tangent to the curve at x = 3 (3mks)

c) (i) Determine the stationary points to the curve (3mks)

(ii)State the the nature of the points in c(i) above (2mks)

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21. A parallelogram ABCD is such that the equation of AB is 3x + 2y = 6 and that of BC is x =− 4.Point
A is on the y-axis .
a) Fine the coordinates of :
(i) A (2mks)

(ii) B (2mks)

b) C is a point (-4,1). Find the equation of the line CD in the form y = mx + c (3mks)

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c) Find the equation of line L which is perpendicular to AB at point A in the form � + � = 1 (3mks)

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22.(a)Complete the table below for the function y = 4 − x2 (1mark)
x -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2
y -5 4 1

(b) Use trapezium rule with 6 strips to find the area bounded by the curve y = 4 − x2 , the lines
x =− 4 , x = 2 and x- axis (3marks)

(c) Use mid-ordinate rule with 3 strips to find the area bounded by the curve y = 4 − x2 , the
lines x =− 4 , x = 2 and x- axis , (3mks)

d) Using integration, find the exact area bounded by the curve y = 4 − x2 , the lines x =− 4 , x = 2 and
x- axis , hence, calculate the percentage error in using the mid-ordinate rule
(3 mks)

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23.The following marks were scored by form four students in a mathematics examination

32,43,51,49,43,32,53,49,34,43,51,25,53,49,53,33,57,62,56,55,62,45,47,43,74,62,50,30,43,62,38,54,55,50,
32,55,72,55,49,68,30,32,60,44,55,38,55,62,45,34,43,62,57,49,66,52,40,53,36,60

a) Starting with the least number and maintaining an interval of 5, make a frequency distribution table

(2mks)

b) From the table , estimate

(i) the mean mark (3mks)

(ii) Median mark (3mks)

(iii) The new mean if each student was added 2 marks (2mks)

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24.The graph below is a plot for the function � = ��2 + �� + � where �, � and � are constants.

(a) State the values of a, b and c. (3 mks)

(b) Find the y-intercept of the curve (2 mks)

(c) Use the graph to solve the equation:

(i) −�2 + � + 4 = 0 (2 mks)

(ii) −�2 + 2� + 3 = 0 (3 mks)

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