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2021

TVET CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION

COUNCIL (TVET CDACC)

Unit of Competency : Demonstrate Numeracy Skills

WRITTEN ASSESSMENT

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. You have 3 HOURS to answer all the questions.

2. Marks for each question are indicated in the brackets.
3. The paper consists of THREE sections; A, B and C
4. Candidates should answer the questions in English
5. You are provided with a separate answer booklet

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SECTION A (20 MARKS)

(Answer all the questions in this section. Each question is 1 mark)

1. What is the next number in the pattern 2, 6, 12, 20, 30 ….?

A. 36
B. 40
C. 42
D. 50
3 1 1 1
2. What is the value of + − +
5 8 4 2
33
A.
40
14
B.
25
1
C.
5
9
D.
40
3. What is the square root of the number obtained when 196 is multiplied by 4?

A. 28
B. 56
C. 392
D. 784
4. Two shelves are to be joined to provide space for bigger file storage. If the first shelf
length measure 4meters 56cm and 6mm, while the second shelf measure 3 meters48cm
and 4mm. what will be the new length of the joined shelf?
A. 8.5m
B. 8 meters 5 cm
C. 8.41 meters
D. 8meters, 4cm and 1mm
5. On a map of scale 1:100,000 a rectangular plot of land measures 7cm by 4cm. what are
the actual lengths of the plot in kilometres?
A. 70,000 by 40,000
B. 700 by 400
C. 70 by 40

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D. 7 by 4
6. Adole bought 50 pineapples at kshs. 30 each and paid kshs. 100 for transport to the
market. During transportation 5 pineapples got spoilt. She sold the rest at kshs. 50
each. What percentage profit to the nearest whole number did she make?
A. 40%
B. 41%
C. 46%
D. 39%
7. What fraction is shaded?

9
A.
6
6
B.
9
3
C.
5
9
D.
10
8. Mumbi paid kshs. 1,800 for a chair after 10% discount was allowed. How much would
she have paid for the chair had she been allowed a 12% discount?
A. 2000
B. 1760
C. 1584
D. 240
9. 15 painters can paint a number of houses in 12 days. If the number of painters is
increased by 5, how many days less would it take the painters working at the same rate
to paint the houses?
A. 24

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B. 9
C. 4
D. 3
10. What is the perimeter of the figure shown below?

A. 92m
B. 83m
C. 99m
D. 85m
11. The diagram below represents a vegetable garden.

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What is the area of the garden in square metres? Take π=
7
A. 693 m2
B. 1008m2
C. 1085 m2
D. 1162 m2
12. Safi packed 15 cartons each containing 20 bottles of juice. The amount of juice in each
bottle was 250ml. what was the total amount of juice, in litres, packed by Safi?
A. 75
B. 750

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C. 7,500
D. 150

13. In Six days, the number of people visiting the office was 414 distributed as shown
below?
DAY Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat
Number of people 55 75 w 19 f 122
If f is less than w by 1; find the values of w and f?
A. W=70, f=69
B. W=72, f=71
C. W=71, f=70
D. W=73, f=72
14. What is one million, one hundred and one thousand and ten in figures
A. 1,100,110
B. 1,110,010
C. 1,010,010
D. 1,101,010
3 2 5 4
15. The fractions , , , are to be arranged in order from the smallest to the largest.
4 3 6 9
Which of the following is the correct order?
2 3 4 5
A. , , ,
3 4 9 6
2 3 5 4
B. , , ,
3 4 6 9
4 2 3 5
C. , , ,
9 3 4 6
5 3 2 4
D. , , ,
6 4 3 9
16. On a certain day a shopkeeper sold 6 rulers, 15 rubbers, 24 pencils, and 9 exercise
books. If these items were to be represented in a pie-chart, what angle would represent
the number of exercise books?
A. 1600
B. 1000
C. 600
D. 400

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17. Which of the following is true about an Obtuse triangle?

A. No angles can be equal
B. The sum of the two smaller angles must be greater than 900
C. The shortest side is opposite the largest angle
D. The longest side is opposite the largest angle
18. The table below shows the number of candidates who sat for examinations in two
years
Year 1 Year 2
Boys 367125 381600
Girls 328652 345454
By how many candidates did year 2 exceed year 1
A. 74619
B. 31277
C. 16802
D. 14475
19. Pictograms are types of charts and graphs that use icons and images to represent data.
The pictogram below was used to represent the number of pan-cakes baked.

If the total number of pan-cakes represented in the pictogram were 6059 pan-cakes;
how many pan-cakes were baked on Thursday?
A. 511
B. 584
C. 1731
D. 3.5

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20. A company sold 2.5 tonnes of rice in 2kg packets. How many packets were sold?
A. 125
B. 1250
C. 2500
D. 5000
SECTION B (40 MARKS)
(Answer all the questions in this section)

21. You work as a painter and a client has invited you to paint the structure shown below.
The entire item outer surface area except the base of the cube is to be painted and only
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one coat is needed. Using π=
7

a) Calculate the surface area in m2 that was painted? (5 Marks)

b) 1 litre of paint covers 20m2. How many litres of paint will be required to
accomplish the work?
(2 Marks)
22. The graph below shows John’s journey from town A to town B. what was his average
speed on the road without considering any stops. (3 Marks)

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23. At a school prize giving day the number of men was half that of women. The number

of children was three times that of women. If the number of women who attended was

3x. what was the sum of men and children? (2 Marks)

24. The ages of five students are 15 years, 13 years, W, 12 years and 15 years. If the mean
of their years is 14. What is the age W? (2 Marks)

25. A school wishes to take students for a tour using a bus. Each student is expected to pay
equal amount of kshs. 800. The total cost charged by the bus was kshs. 48,000. During
the actual journey, 10 students were absent. The total cost remained the same. How
much would each of the present student need to add (4 Marks)
26. A kiosk owner bought 10 litres of milk on Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday, a
total of 50 litres were bought. On Thursday and Friday, he bought equal number of
litres. Represent the data in a pie chart? (4
Marks)

27. Construct a triangle XYZ such that

a) XY = 5cm, YZ =6cm and XZ=7cm. (2 Marks)
b) Inscribe a circle touching all the sides of the triangle (3 Marks)
c) Measure the radius of the cirle and write it (1 Marks)

28. A rectangular football pitch has its length equal to twice its width and a perimeter of 360 m.
Find its length and width. (3 Marks)
29. Kioko bought the following items to donate to a charitable organization
Item Number of bags/kg/items Price per bag/kg/item in
Cabbages 2 bags 2,500

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Potatoes 4 bags 2000

Cooking oil 20 kg 180
sugar 100 kg 105
breads 50 breads 50
He was given 10% discount for all his purchases. How much did he pay for the items?
(4 marks)
30. The management of a firm interviewed 2,500 applicants for employment. 1,500 of the
applicants were skilled and the rest were unskilled. Among the skilled, 900 were
experienced and the rest had no experience. Among the unskilled, 300 had experience.
Present this information using a table. (5Marks)

SECTION C (40 MARKS)

(This section has 3 questions, answer only two questions).
31. The age distribution of 70 workers in a factory is given in the following table.

Age (years) 16-20 21- 26- 31- 36- 41- 46- 51-55
frequency 2 10 W 23 10 8 2 3

a) Find the value of W (1 Marks)

b) Prepare a frequency distribution table? (6 Marks)
c) Calculate the standard deviation? (3 Marks)
d) Draw an ogive for the above distribution (6 Marks)
e) From the ogive how many workers were below 32 years (4 Marks)
32. (a) (i). Draw a cuboid shown in figure below such that l=8cm, h=5cm and w = 6 cm
(6 Marks)

(ii) A drip is used to pour a chemical composition into the cuboid. If the cuboid is
1
full of its height . What is the volume of the remaining part? (3 marks)
3

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(iii) If it the drip is filling up the cuboid at constant rate of 2cm 3 per 5 minutes
how
much longer will it take to fill the remaining part (4 Marks)

(b) You work in a tourist guide company. On this particular day you are in charge of
transport to ensure that 25 tourists are taken from town A to town B a distance of
600km. You have three options as indicated on the table below;

Expenses incurred by Company vehicles Hire vehicle Air plane

the company
Driver pay 200 per km N/A N/A
Fuel consumption 0.8 litres per km. N/A N/A
Hiring charges N/A 3000 per person 4,000 per person
If each tourist has paid your company kshs. 6000 and fuel price is kshs. 115 per litre;
calculate the profit that would be made if any of option is used. Which option will
give more profit to the company (7
Marks)

IR
33. (a) Given that n= ,make I the subject, hence find the value of I given that n =
E−Ir
2.4, r = 0.01. R = 3.6 and E = 8.5 (6
Marks)

(b) A child is looking for his father. He walks 90 metres in the east before turning to
his right. He moves 20 metres before turning to his right again and walks for 30
metres. From here, he went 100 metres right where he found the father. using a
scale of
1:10,000
i. illustrate the child’s movement? (10 Marks)
ii. Draw and give the length of a straight line joining the starting point to the
destination (4 Marks)

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