F2 MATH HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT MAR/APR 2022
1. Without using a calculator evaluate,
-2(5+3) - 9÷3+5
-3×-5+-2 ×4 (3 marks)
2. Three bells ring at intervals of 9 minutes, 15 minutes and 21 minutes. The bells will next ring together at
11.00 pm. Find the time the bells had last rang together. (3 marks)
3. A construction company employs technicians and artisans. On a certain day 3 technicians and 2 artisans
were hired and paid a total of Kshs 9000. On another day the firm hired 4 technicians and 1 artisan and
paid a total of Kshs 9500. Calculate the cost of hiring 2 technicians and 5 artisans in a day.
(3 marks)
4. A Kenyan company received US Dollars 100,000.The money was converted into Kenya shillings in a
bank which buys and sells foreign currencies as follows:
Buying(in Kenya shillings) Selling(in Kenya shillings)
1 US Dollar 77.24 77.44
1 Sterling Pound 121.93 122.27
(a) Calculate the amount of money, in Kenya shillings, the company received. (2 marks)
(b) The company exchanged the Kenya shillings calculated in (a) above, into sterling pounds to buy a car
from Britain. Calculate the cost of the car to the nearest sterling pound. (2 marks)
5. The size of an interior angle of a regular polygon is 3x0 while its exterior angle is ( x- 20)0. Find the
number of sides of the polygon . (3 marks)
−2 2
243 5 × 125 3
6. Simplify −3 (3marks)
2
9
7. In fourteen years time, a mother will be twice as old as her son. Four years ago, the sum of their ages was
30 years. Find how old the the mother was, when the son was born. (4 marks)
8. Given that Sin (x+ 600) = Cos (2x)0, find Tan (x+60)0 (3 marks)
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9. A cylindrical solid whose radius and height are equal has a surface area of 154 cm .Calculate its diameter,
correct to 2 decimal places.(Take π =3.142). (3marks)
10. A square brass plate is 2 mm thick and has a mass of 1.05 kg. The density of the brass is 8.4 g/cm3.
Calculate the length of the plate in centimeters. (3 marks)
a b
11. Simplify + (3 marks)
2(a+ b) 2(a−b)
12. Chelimo’s clock loses 15 seconds every hour. She sets the correct time on the clock at 0700h on a
Monday. Determine the time shown on the clock when the correct time was 1900h on Wednesday the
same week. (3 marks)
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13. The volume of a cube is 1728cm . Calculate, correct to 2 decimal places, the length of the diagonal of a
face of the cube. (3 Marks)
14. Given the inequalities x – 5 ≤ 3 x – 8 < 2 x – 3.
a) Solve the inequalities; (2 marks)
b) Represent the solution on a number line. (1 mark)
15. Given that OA = 2i + 3j and OB = 3i - 2j
Find the magnitude of AB to one decimal place. (3 marks)
16. The production of milk, in litres, of 14 cows on a certain day was recorded as follows
22, 26, 15, 19, 20, 16, 27, 15, 19, 22, 21, 20, 22 and 28.
a) The mode; (1 mark)
b) The median. (2 marks)
17. Triangle OAB has vertices O(0,0) ,A(2, 1) ,B is (6,-3). Point C is on OB such that CB=2OC and point D
is on AB such that AD=3DB. Express CD as a column vector. (3mks)
SECTION II
18. A farmer had 540 bags of maize each having a mass of 112kg. After drying the maize, the mass
decreased in the ratio 15:16.
a) Calculate the total mass lost after the maize was dried. (3 marks)
b) A trader bought and repacked the dried maize in 90 kg 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. (3 marks)
ii. The buying price of a 90 kg bag of maize was Ksh 1,500. The trader paid Ksh 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. (4 marks)
19. The floor of a room is in the shape of a rectangle 10.5m long by 6m wide. Square tiles of length 30cm are
to be fitted on to the floor.
a) Calculate the number of tiles needed for the floor. (2 marks)
b) A dealer wishes to buy enough tiles for fifteen such rooms. The tiles are packed in cartons each
containing 20 tiles. The cost of each carton is kshs. 800. Calculate:
i. The total cost of the tiles (3 marks)
ii. If in addition the dealer spends kshs. 2,000 and Kshs. 600 on transport and subsistence
respectively, at what price should he sell each carton in order to make a profit of 12.5% (to the
nearest Kshs) (5 marks)
20. The boundaries PQ,QR,RS and SP of a ranch are straight lines such that: Q is 16 km on a bearing of 0400
from P;R is directly south of Q and east of P and S is 12 km on a bearing of 1200 from R.
a) Using a scale of 1 cm to represent 2 km. Show the above information in a scale drawing. (3 marks)
b) From the scale drawing determines:
i) The distance in kilometers of P from S. (2 marks)
ii) The bearing of P from S.(2Mrks)
c) Calculate the area of a ranch PQRS in square kilometers. (3 marks)
21. A line L passes through (-2, 3) and (-1, 6) and is perpendicular to a line P at (-1, 6).
(a) Find the equation of L (2 marks)
(b) Find the equation of P in the form ax + by = c,where a, b and c are constants. (2 marks)
(c) Given that another line Q is parallel to L and passes through point (1, 2)
find the x and y intercepts of Q (3 marks)
(d) Find the point of the intersection of lines P and Q (3 marks)
22. (a) On the graph, draw the square whose verticals are A (6, -2), B (7, -2), C (7, -1) and D (6, -1).
(1 mark)
b) On the same grid, draw:
i. AʹBʹCʹDʹ, the image of ABCD, under an enlargement scale factor 3, centre (9, -4); (3 marks)
ii. AʹʹBʹʹCʹʹDʹʹ, the image of AʹBʹCʹDʹ, under a reflection in the line x = 0; (2 marks)
iii. AʹʹʹBʹʹʹCʹʹʹDʹʹʹ, the the image of AʹʹBʹʹCʹʹDʹʹ under a rotation of + 90 0 about (0,0) (2 marks)
(c) Describe a single transformation that maps AʹBʹCʹDʹ onto AʹʹʹBʹʹʹCʹʹʹDʹʹʹ (2 marks)
23. The figure below represents a cone of height 12 cm and base radius of 9 cm from which a similar smaller
cone is removed, leaving a conical hole of height 4 cm.
a) Calculate:
i. The base radius of the conical hole; (2 marks)
ii. The volume, in terms of π, of the smaller cone that was removed. (2 marks)
b) Determine the slant height of the original cone. (1 mark)
c) Calculate, in terms of π , the surface area of the remaining solid after the smaller cone is removed.
(5 marks)
24. The figure below represents a speed time graph for a cheetah which covered 825min 40 seconds.
(a) State the speed of the cheetah when recording of its motion started (1 mark)
(b) Calculate the maximum speed attained by the cheetah (3 marks)
(c) Calculate the acceleration of the cheetah in:
(i) The first 10 seconds (2 marks)
(ii) The last 20 seconds (1 mark)
(d) Calculate the average speed of the cheetah in first 20 seconds (3 marks)
25. A saleswoman is paid a commission of 2% on goods sold worth over Ksh 100,000. She is also paid a
monthly salary of Ksh 12,000.In a certain month, she sold 360 handbags at Ksh 500 each.
(a) Calculate the saleswoman’s earnings that month. (3 marks)
(b) The following month, the saleswoman’s monthly salary was increased by 10%.Her total earnings that
month were Ksh 17,600.
Calculate:
a. The total amount of money received from the sales of handbags that month. ( 5marks)
b. The number of handbags sold that month. (2 marks)
25. The frequency distribution table below shows the marks scored by 117 form four candidates of Starehe
Girls Centre and School.
Marks 10 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 – 59 60 – 69 70 – 79
No. of students 13 14 18 20 23 17 12
a) State the modal class (1 mark)
b) Calculate the median mark (4 marks)
c) Draw a histogram and a frequency polygon on the same axes (5 marks)
26. A bus left Nairobi at 6.00a.m and travelled towards Kapsabet Boys at an average speed of 100km/hr.
At 6.30 am, a van left kapsabet Boys and travelled towards Nairobi to receive the bus with a number
of students moving at an average speed of 125km/h given that the distance between Nairobi and
Kapsabetis 500km Calculate:
a. The time the two vehicles met. (4 marsks)
b. On meeting the bus proceeded with its journey but the van had a break of 30 minutes before
proceeding for Kapsabet Boys. Calculate:
i. The time the bus arrived at Kapsabet Boys. (3 marks)
ii. The time the van arrived at Kapsabet.Boys (3 marks)
27. Given that BC is a tangent to the circle and that angle ABC=1100 and angle CBD=500 .Calculate giving
reasons ;
i. Angle AED (2 marks)
ii. Angle BAD (2 marks)
iii. Angle DCB (2 marks)
iv. Angle BDA (2 marks)
v. Angle BDC (2 marks)
28. Triangle OAB is such that OA = a and OB = b. C. lies on OB such that OC: CB = 1: 1. D lies on AB
such that AD: DB= l : 1 and E lies on OA such that OA: AE = 3 : 1.
sFind vectors (a) OC (b) OD (c) OE (d) CD (e) DE
