SECTION A (60 marks)

Answer all questions

1. a) Four wires with length of 60cm, 110cm, and 115cm are cut into pieces of the same
length. Find the greatest possible length for these pieces if no wire is left over.

b) There are 66 people in a bus. At the first stop 28 people got off and 19 people got in,
at the next stop 5 people got off and 13 people got in. How many people are there in the
bus now?.
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2. a) Express 1.6666666… as a fraction in form of 𝑏 where b≠ 0

27 𝑥
b) If 3𝑥 − 𝑦 = 4, what is the value of 3𝑦

c) Given the following logarithms log 2=0.3010 and log 3=0.4771 without using
mathematical table evaluate log 2.25.

3. a) Let ∪be a universal set and set A and B are the subsets where ∪=
𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑, 𝑒, 𝑓, 𝑔, 𝑕, , 𝐴 = 𝑐, 𝑓, 𝑔, , 𝐵 = 𝑏, 𝑑, 𝑕
i. Find the number of subsets of set A
ii. Find 𝑛(𝐴′ ∩ 𝐵)

b) In a certain school, 42 students were asked about whether they like handball, football,
or both. It was found that the number of students who like both netball and football
was 3 times the number of students who like handball only. Furthermore, the number
of students who like football only was six more than twice the number of students who
like handball only.

i. Represent the information above in venn diagram

ii. Find the number of students who like handball only.
4. a) Find the equation of line T which passes through point A (2, 5) with the same gradient
as that of the line which passes through B (6, 5) and C (10, 7).

b) If A and B are complementary angles such that angle A is 18° less than angle B,
determine the angles.
5. a) The school director is about to build a new staff office with width 8m less than the
length. If the length of the building is 15m.Suggest the size of land that the director needs
to use to build the office.

b) PQR is an isosceles triangle in which PQ and PR are equal. If S is the midpoint of QR,
prove that ∆𝑃𝑄𝑆 and ∆𝑃𝑅𝑆 are congruent.

6. The United Republic of Tanzania bought an air plane bombardier for 6.4 million US
dollar. How much is this in Tanzania shillings? (Use 1 US Dollar=125 Japanese Yen and
1 Japanese Yen=Tsh.20)

7. a) The volumes of the two tanks are in the ratio 2:5. If the volume of the first tank is 2600
litres, find the total volume of two tanks.

b) After a rough calculations Mwajombe revealed that each bag of maize costs
Tsh .45 000 as the costs of production and transporting a bag from farm to the market. As
a marketing officer, help him to set a price for his products that will make him get the
profit of 25% per bag. How much money will he get if he has 24 bags of maize.

8. a) With examples write types of relations which are not functions.

b) A linear function is such that 𝑓 2 = 11, 𝑓 −3 . Find that linear function and hence
evaluate the value of 𝑓 4

9. a) In ∆𝐴𝐵𝐶, 𝐵𝐴𝐶 = 90°, 𝐴𝐵 = 𝑦𝑐𝑚, 𝐴𝐶 = 2𝑦 + 2 𝑐𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝐶 = 3𝑦 − 2 𝑐𝑚.Find

the value of y.

b) Two students are sitting on opposite sides of a tree of 10cm long. The angles of
elevation of the top of the tree to the students are 35° 𝑎𝑛𝑑 40° respectively. Find the
distance between them.

10. a) Simplify the expression (𝑥 − 5)2 − 9𝑦 2 and hence use the result to evaluate
(1000)2 − (999)2

b) The difference between two positive numbers is 8 and their product is 105. Find the
larger number.
 SECTION B (40 marks)

Answer all questions

11. The scores of mathematics test taken by 60 students were recorded as here under

30 56 21 49 58 22 38 27 31 25 34 48 33 20 34 30 50 26

25 50 36 29 21 61 33 51 20 26 28 45 36 26 6042 21 63

43 24 30 27 56 35 32 35 52 41 56 41 30 36 53 63 57 54

34 58 34 59 26 30

a) Prepare frequency distribution table for the data by using the class marks 22,
27, 32 etc
b) Calculate the mean by using the assumed mean (given assumed mean data
(A) =42)
c) Calculate the median of the data
d) Draw histogram and use it to estimate mode.

12. NMB bank intends to enlarge one of their square building whose vertices are A(0,0),
B(1,0) C(1,1) D(0,1) by using an enlargement factor of 4metres.As a constructor
employed by the bank to do the work, identify the new position of the building. Hence
draw both original building and new building on the same pair of axes.

1 3
13. Given that 𝐴 = find
2 4
a) 𝐴

b) 𝐴−1

c) Solve the following system of simultaneous equation by matrix method

3𝑥 + 2𝑦 = 12
𝑥 + 3𝑦 = 35
14. a) From the function 𝑔 𝑥 = −𝑥 2 − 𝑥 + 2 determine
i. Axis of symmetry
ii. Turning point
iii. Domains and range.

3𝑥 𝑖𝑓 𝑥 ≥ 3
b) Given 𝑓 𝑥 = 4 𝑖𝑓 − 3 ≤ 𝑥 < 3
𝑥 𝑖𝑓 𝑥 < −3

i. Sketch the graph of 𝑓 𝑥

ii. From the graph, determine domain and range of 𝑓 𝑥
iii. Find the difference of 𝑓 6 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓 −6