STANDARD EIGHT —— SIGNAL EXAMS 2020 (Cstenar on2 SECOND K.C.P.E SIGNAL MATHEMATICS Time: 2 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY |. You have been given this question booklet and a separate answer sheet. The question booklet contains SO questions, Do any necessary rough work in this booklet. 3. When you have chosen your answer, matk it on the ANSWER SHEET. not inthe question booklet HOW TO USE THE ANSWER SHEET 4. Use only an ordinary pencil. Make sure that you have written on the answer sheet YOUR INDEX’ ME voXscroou ‘your full Index Number (i.e, School Code Number i top of the answer sheet 6 By drawing a dark line inside the correct nui and the three-figure Candidate's Number} 7. Donot make any marks outside the 8 Keep your answer sheet as clean NOT FOLD IT, 9. For each of the questions | Sgr’ ffe given. The answers are lettered A. B, C and D. In each case only ONE of the four answers jalareo Ng hose the correct answer, 10, On the answer sheet, th sw P's to be shown by drawing a dark line inside the box in which the letter ‘you have chosen is writ Inthe gestion booklet: 11. What is the perimeter of a rectangle which measures 600m long 250m wide? A.170m B. 850m. C.1700m . 320m The correct answer is C (1700m) the answer sheet avBCD: FAP ABs 0) BP Ave cup: BBpanencioy BEavsicso: In the set of boxes numbered 11, the box with the letter C printed in itis marked. 11. Your dark line MUST be within the box. 2: For each question ONLY ONE box is to be marked in each set of four boxes. ‘This question paper consists of 8 printed pages © Signal Publishers Limited 2020 Website: www. signalpublishers.com. Email. [email protected] ' AY COE PS |@SignelPubiishers | Malt Ree ae 1 SIGNALMATHSTD$ BBoversionsWhat is 3605035 written in words? Sr A. Three million six hundred and five thousand and thirty five, B. Thirty six million five thousand and thirty five. C. Thirty six thousand five hundred and thirty five. D, Three million six hundred and fifty 6. thousand and thirty five. What is the value of; (4x3) 6+), 3(2 +3) : 2 A558> B. 20 ae C.355 D.10 What is 587.6986 rounded off to 2 decimal places? A. 587.60 B. 587.69 C. 587.70 8. D. 587.7 What is the difference between the LCM and the GCD of 8, 24 and 36? How many groups of thousands are in the total value of digit 3 in the number 4368752? A. 300000 B.30 c. 300 D. 100 Which one of the following digits can fil! the gap in the number 25 _51 to make i divisible by 112 AS B3 C7 D.6 1 ‘What is the square root of 3, A1S B.1 Derick had 150 chicken in the year 2008. In the year 2009 the number of chicken increases to 180. What was the percentage inerease in the number of the chicken? A. 120% B.20% C.80% D. 60% SIGNALMATHISTD 810. ue 12, A rectangular plot of land whose length is S4m has the same area as a square plot of land whose side measures 36m. What is the width of the rectangular plot? A. 18m B. 48m C.90m D.24m Three bells were set to ring at intervals of 1Smin, 24min and I hour respectively; Ifthey rang together at 11:42am, at what time did they ring together again? A. 1:42pm. B. 1:42am C. 14am D. 9:42pm Maurice’s stride is 0.25 metres. How many strides will he make to cover 0.25km? A. 10000 B. 1000 C. 100 D.10 Find the area of the figure below. 14m 21m A.175m? B. 176m? C. 53m? D. 140m? 13. 14. 15. 16. Arrange the following fractions in descending order. ae 2h al 3747 Law au atu w Blo elo ule ule alu wy w]e alu Kombo bought a bull for sh. 28000 and later sold it for sh. 26600. What percentage loss did he make? A. 140% B.5% C.95% D. 105% ‘What is the value of : 174344 = 124 7 A. 1460 B. 14006 C. 1406 D. 1046 ‘The radius of a bicycle wheel is 35cm. How many revolutions will it make to cover a distance of 8.8km? A.220 B.40 C. 400 D. 4000 SIGNALMATHISTD817. 18. 19. Calculate the distance round the figure shown below in kilometers. 800m, 4m 1100m| 7600m A.17.1km B.157.1km C.164km D.15.11km ‘What is the value of; Ifa=3,b=5,c=(b-ay and d=ae, find the value of: 2(d-b) + (c- ay A.12 B.15 C.23 D.13 20. 22. 23. Owembi and Matayo shared sh. 26000 from their business in the ratio 7:6. How much more did Owembi get than Matayo? A.Sh. 14000 B. Sh. 12000 C. Sh. 16000 D. Sh.2000 The figure below represents a quarter of acircle with centre 0. What is the area ofthe shaded part? 14m ol A. L4om? B. 28cm? C. 56cm? D. 54cm? What is the next number in the pattern below? 3,7, 16, 32, 57,__ A.63 B.93 C. 106 D.75 Wanjala paid sh.3200 for a bag of maize after getting a discount of 20%. What ‘was the marked price of the bag of maize? ‘A.Sh. 4000 B. Sh. 3800 C. Sh, 3640 D. Sh. 3840 SIGNALIMATHISTD 824, 25. 26. 27. What is 1% expressed as a ratio in its simplest form? AL B. 5:4 C. 1:80 Dz 1:40 Nioroge is p years old now. He is 4 older than his wife. Write an expression to show the sum of their ages in 5 years time. A.2p-q+10 B.2p-2q+5 C.ptqes D.pt+q+10 Inthe figure below, QRS isa straight line. Line PR = QR = RS. Angle QPR = 60" What is the size of angle PSR? P Q R A. 60° B. 55° cas D.30 The area of a right-angled triangle is 330cm?. The length of the shortest side is 11cm. What is the length of the longest side? A.30cm B.6lem C.1lem D. 60cm 28. 29. 30. 3h. Mwangangi deposited sh, 30000 ina bank that paid simple interest at the rate of 8% p.a, What was the total amount of money in the bank at the end of 3 years? A.Sh. 34800 B. Sh. 7200 C. Sh. 37200 D. Sh. 4800 What is the total surface area of a closed cylindrical tank of height 35cm and a diameter of 28cm? A. 3080cm? B, 1232cm? C. 3520em? D. 4312cm? A.car crosses a bridge 200 metres long in 5 seconds. What is its speed in kavhr? A.30knv/h B. 144knv/h_ C. 40k D.1 -knvh A saleslady earns a commission of 7% on all the sales she makes. During the month of December, she sold goods worth sh. 450000. How much commission was she paid? A, Sh. 418500, B, Sh. 481500 C. Sh. 39120 D. Sh. 31500 SIGNALMATHSTD.832. 33. 34. Ina hotel, 9 people were hired to complete a piece of work in 15 hours. | 35. How many more hours did it take them to complete the work if 3 people did not turn up? 7 1 A. z hours, B. 30 hours c2tn hours D. 5 hours A circular plot was fenced using wo equal strands of wire whose total length was 880m. What was the radius of the plot? (Take = A.210m B.35m. C. 140m D.70m Ina milk processing factory, ten -7 litre containers were processed. It was later re- packed into 5 -decilitre bottles. How many such bottles were obtained? A. 1400 B. 140 C14 D.70 , 36. Inthe figure below, line DE is parallel to line FG, angle CHG = 70" and angle DBJ = 60°. What is the size of angle BAC? A.40° B.50° C.60" D. 110° Halima bought the following items from ashop. - A 2kg packet of sugar for sh. 160 ~ 2kg of cooking fat for sh85per kg - 3kg of beans @ sh. 65 - : kg packet of tea leaves for sh. 120 What balance did she receive if she paid for the items using a sh. 1000 note? A.Sh. 175 B. Sh, 825 C. Sh. 645 D. Sh. 355 SIGNALMATHSTD.837. 38. 39. Construct triangle XYZ where line XY em and YZ=7em. Construct a ing through the vertices of the triangle. What is the radius of the circle? A.7.Sem B.3.7em C.6.0em D. 18cm What is the difference between the largest and the smallest angles in the figure below? The following are properties of quadrilaterals. fi) All sides are equal. Gi) Some angels are equal. (iil) Diagonals are equal. iv) Has a pair of parallel lines. ‘y) Diagonals bisect each other at right angles (vi) Opposite sides are equal and parallel Which two properties are for squares and thombuses? A. (i) and (vi) B.(v)and (vi) C. (i) and (iv) D. (ii) and (i) 40. What is the value of x in the equation below? 2x +3x D4 41, A river measuring 6cm long on a map has 42. 43. an actual length of 24km. What is the scale used? A. 1: 400000 B. 1:4000000 Cc. 1:400 D. 1:4000 Use the correct inequality sign to complete the statement below. a. > < vowp> = What is the shortest length of wire tha. can be cut into pieces measuring 9em. o: 15cm or 20cm without a remainder? A.90em, B. 180cm C. 360em D. 720em SIGNALMATHSSTD 844. Below is a net ofa solid. 48. The table below shows fare in shillings between different towns. J Hool_K 12o 80 | L Which of the following solids can be formed when the net above is folded? 154) 110} 90 | M 180} 150] 120 | 60 | N 200] 170 | 150 | 100} 80 jo A. Rectangular pyramid B, Rectangular prism C. Square pyramid Aswan went from town J direct to town O. D. Square prism. How mucly more money did he pay if he went back to town J via town M? A. Sh. 50 48. Whatis the value of: Ji7,64 ? ee Adz C.Sh. 80 B.0.42 D. Sh. 450 C.0.48 D.48 49, A rectangular container measures 50cm by 60cm by 80cm. How much water in decilitres does it hold when half full? 46. What is the value of: A. 120d) 133x514 B. 1200d1 0.19 x 0.0017 C.2400d! aoe D. 1200041 B. 21000 C24 50.What is the next shape in the pattern below? D.210 47. Whatis the value of; 9(2x + 2y) = 4(2x +)? A. 10x + 22y B. 26x + 22y C. 10x + lay D. 22x + 26y F "SIGNAL K.C.PE REVISION MATHEMATICS’ from Signal Publishers. NB: For a comprehensive revision in Mathematics get yourself a copy of “AVAILABLE AT BOOKSHOPS COUNTRYWIDE. basis J aw & 8, SIGNAUMATH/STDS: