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CENTRAL COLLEGE MITYANA

Star Campus - The Home Glory
Mid-Term I Examinations
S.3 Mathematics paper one
446/1
Time:2 ½ hours
Instructions
 Answer all questions in section A and any five questions in section B
 Silent scientific non-programmable calculators may be used
 Show all your workings clearly
 Neat and organized work is a must
SECTION A (40 Marks)
1. Given that
Find (i). (02 marks)
(ii). values of for which (02 marks)
2. Express 5184 as a product of its prime factors hence find the square root of 5184.
(04 marks)
3. Solve the equations = (04 marks)
3 3
4. Two similar cones have volume of 72cm and 576cm . Given that the height of the
smaller cone is 12cm, calculate the height of the bigger cone. (04 marks)
√ √
5. Simplify + (04 marks)
√ √
6. In a triangle PQR, angle P=900, and Find angle QRP correct
to 1 decimal place. (04 marks)

7. Simplify ( ) (04 marks)

8. In a class, 52 students like Fanta (F), 2 like mountain dew (M) and 8 like both F and M. If
3 do not like any of the two soft drinks. Find the total number of students in the class.
(04 marks)
9. Find given that ( ) (04 marks)

10. Form a quadratic equation with roots. { } (04 marks)

SECTION B
Answer any five questions from this section
11. (a). Simplify (04 marks)
√ √
(b). Express
√ √
in the form at √ hence find (05 marks)
(c). Find the LCM of 12, 15 and 18. (03 marks)
12. (a). Factorise hence solve (04 marks)
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(b). A room meters long and meters wide has an area of 40m . Obtain an
equation in y hence find the value of y. (04 marks)
(c). Given that . Find the value of where is a natural number.
(04 marks)

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 13. Given matrices A=( ) B= ( ) and C= ( ) find
(a). (04 marks)
(b). (04 marks)
(c) (04 marks)
14. (a). In the figure below QR is parallel to ST. , and
find the value of

(b). Solve by the method of completing the square. (04 marks)

(c). Factorise completely (04 marks)
15. (a). John paid sh 7000 for exercise books and 2 pens. If he brought 3 exercise books and a
pen and paid sh 5000, find the cost of an exercise book and a pen. (06 marks)
(b). The sum of the ages of the father and son is 85 years. Five years ago, the father was
twice as old as his son. Find their present. (06 marks)

16. (a). Copy and complete the table below.

(b). Plot the graph of using a scale of 1cm: 1 unit on vertical axis and
2cm: 1 unit on horizontal axis. (04 marks)
(c). Use your graph to solve the equation (03 marks)
17. (a). Find the area of the triangle PQR in which and
. (04 marks)
(b). In the diagrams below find the unknowns (04 marks each)
(i) (ii)

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