NAME……………………………………………………………………………………... ADM……………………..

THE AGA KHAN HIGH SCHOOL NAIROBI

WEDNESDAY ASSIGNMENT 2023 12TH JULY 2023

MIXED CONCEPTS MARKS: 40 MARKS

FORM 1 TIME:1 HOUR

1. A square room is covered by a number of whole rectangular slabs of sides 60cm and 30cm.
Calculate the least possible area of the room in square meters. (3 marks)

2. Three tractors each working eight hours a day can plough a field in five days. How many days
would two such tractors working 10 hours a day take to plough the same field (3marks)

3. Increase the numbers given below in the ratio in the brackets (3marks)
(a) 200 (3:2)

(b) divide 1500 in the ratio 3:2

4. The price of an article increased by 20% in the first week of August and then decreased
by 20% in the second week of the same month. Find its price at the end of the second
week of August if its initial price was Kshs 500, (3marks)

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 5. Express the following as the product of their prime factors. (Give your answers in
power/index form.) (3marks)
1296

6. The figure below shows a solid cuboid

a. Calculate
i. The surface area of the solid (4marks)

ii. The volume of the solid (3marks)

b. Given that the solid has a mass of 1540kg, find the density of the solid in g/cm3
(3marks)

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 7. A farmer had 540 bags of maize each having a mass of 112kg. If the mass of the maize
decreased in the ratio 15:16 after drying it;
a) Calculate the total mass lost after the maize was dried. (3marks)

b) A trader bought and repacked the dried maize in 90kg bags. He transported the maize in
a lorry which could carry a maximum of 120 bags per trip.
i. Determine the number of trips the lorry made. (4marks)

ii. The buying price of a 90kg bag of maize was Kshs 1,500. The trader paid Kshs 2,500
per trip to the market. He sold the maize and made a profit of 26%. Calculate the
selling price of each bag of the maize. (3marks)

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 8. A farmer had 540 bags of maize each having a mass of 112kg. If the mass of the maize
decreased in the ratio 15:16 after drying it;
c) Calculate the total mass lost after the maize was dried. (3marks)

d) A trader bought and repacked the dried maize in 90kg bags. He transported the maize in
a lorry which could carry a maximum of 120 bags per trip.
iii. Determine the number of trips the lorry made. (4marks)

iv. The buying price of a 90kg bag of maize was Kshs 1,500. The trader paid Kshs 2,500
per trip to the market. He sold the maize and made a profit of 26%. Calculate the
selling price of each bag of the maize. (3marks)

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