Mathematics Questions and Answers - Class 8 Mid Term 2 Exams 2023 Set 4
What is 5014.15 written in words?
Five thousand and fourteen and fifteen
Five thousand and fourteen and fifteen hundredths.
Fifty thousand and fourteen and fifteen hundredths.
Fifty thousand and fourteen and fifteen
What is the number 19.9968 rounded off to the nearest hundredths?
20.0
19.10
20.00
19.99
What is the value of 3(4²+ 2²) − 5 x 6 ÷ 2? 3 × 5
4
30
0.3
3
What is the product of the total value of digit 3 and the total value of digit 9 in the number 7643982?
2700000
270000
27000
2700
What is the value of 52/3 ÷ (5/8 − 1/2) × 2/15 ÷ 11/5?
7/150
51/27
27/136
527/136
Draw a rhombus KLMO whose sides are 5cm and angle KLM 65°. What is half the length of the shorter diagonal?
5.4cm
42.3cm
4.6cm
2.7cm
What is the LCM of 18, 28 and 84 written in its prime factors?
22 x 3 x 72
22 x 32 x 72
22 x 32 x 7
2 x 32 x 72
Which group of the following decimals increases by hundredths?
0.2345, 0.3345, 0.4345, 0.5345
0.5219, 0.5319, 0.5419, 0.5519
0.3149, 0.3159, 0.3169, 0.3179
0.4451, 0.4452, 0.4453, 0.4454
Which one of the following models folded will have the same number of faces and vertices?
The price of a skirt including a 16% sales tax is Shs 2320. What is the price of the skirt before the tax?
Shs 2691.20
Shs 1948.80
Shs 2000
Shs 320
Six hundred pupils of Makindu School were each given 10dl packets of milk each day for 10 days. How many litres of milk were given altogether?
600
60000
60
6000
What is the value of x in the equation 2x + 3 = 3 − x ? 4
1.5
2.5
2.0
3.0
Njima spent 20% of his income on food and 1/3 of the remainder on school fees. If he was left with Shs 5600, what was his income?
Shs 1050
Shs 4480
Shs 6720
Shs 10500
Ojwang bought a radio on hire purchase terms. He made a deposit of Shs 2700 and the rest in 12 equal monthly instalments. The hire purchase price of the radio was 20% more than the marked price. Given marked price as Shs 16000, how much was each monthly instalment?
Shs 1375
Shs 1600
Shs 3200
Shs 16500
In the figure below, ABDC is a rhombus of side 17cm, BD is 30cm long. What is the length of AC?
8cm
16cm
2.0
15cm
Onteri bought the following items from a shop; 4kg of sugar @ Shs 120 ½kg onions @ Shs 180 per kg Four-2kg packets of maize flour @ Shs 110 A bar of soap @ Shs 150 ½kg of salt for Shs 50 He paid for the items using three-five hundred shilling notes. How much balance did he get?
Shs 1210
Shs 290
Shs 1650
Shs 150
The diagram below represents Okero's piece of land. What is its perimeter?
51m
55m
44m
33m
Construct triangle ABC in which line AB = 8cm. Angle ABC = 120° and line BC 6cm. Draw the perpendicular bisectors of line BC and line AB.Let the bisectors meet at point Q. What is the length of line QB?
6.5cm
7.5cm
6.0cm
7.0cm
During an election Ng'ang'a, Otieno, Maina and Wamalwa contested for a seat. Maina received 16241 which was 5627 votes more than Ng'ang'a and 3569 votes less than Otieno. If the total number of people who voted was 79223 and 968 votes were spoilt, how many votes did Wamalwa get?
31590
10614
19810
32658
What is the value of 5.1 x 0.006 x 6.5 ? 3.4 x 0.13
0.45
45
0.045
4.5
A map is drawn on a scale of 1:50000. What is the actual area of a rectangular plot of land in hectares represented by a length of 8cm and width of 5cm on the map?
40
1000
100
200
A saleslady carns a basic salary of Shs 9000. She is also given a 10% commission on the value of goods sold above Shs 150000. In one month she got a total carning of Shs 16000. What were the total sales?
Shs 70000
Shs 80000
Shs 220000
Shs 165000
What is the value of the expression y²(2x − w) xw + y if y = x+4, w = ½(y + x) and x=4?
4
6
8
2
The diagram below is an open trough used to feed animals. The outer surface of the trough was painted. What area was painted? (Тakе π=22/7)
11.88m2
5.94m2
7.48m2
4.4m2
The table below shows the arrival and departure time of a bus travelling between Kisii and Kisumu.
Station
Arrival time
Departure time
Kisii
______
6.30a.m.
Suneka
9.00 a.m
9.15 a.m
Oyugis
12.20 p.m
12.30 p.m
Ahero
1.30 p.m
1.45 p.m
Kisumu
3.15 p.m
____________
How long does it take the bus to travel from Kisii to Ahero?
7hr 15min
7 hours
6 hours
6hrs 15min
Mutuma borrowed some money at a simple interest rate of 10% p.a. After 24 months he paid a total of Shs 20000 as interest. How much had he borrowed?
Shs 100000
Shs 80000
Shs 140000
Shs 120000
What is the next number in the pattern below? 69, 86, 106, 129,____________
149
155
146
152
The headteacher of Bidii Academy attended a workshop for twelve days. If the workshop started on Thursday 25th of February 2015, when did it end?
7th March 2015
10th March 2015
9th March 2015
8th March 2015
What is the value of (21/4)2 + ?
51/16
853/80
753/80
23/5
A fruit vendor sold 44 more bananas than oranges. He sold one banana at Shs 4 and one orange at Shs 5. His total sales amounted to Shs 500. What percentage of the total sales was obtained from the sale of oranges?
64%
45%
55%
36%
The figure below represents a square piece of land ABCD. What is the area of the shaded part if each side of the land measures 56m? (Тake π = 22/7)
1904m2
1232m2
4368m2
3136m2
In a class there are three girls for every two boys. If there are 12 more girls than boys how many pupils were absent on a day when 48 pupils were present?
12
2
240
60
There is a loss of 30% when an item is sold at Shs 4200. At what price must it be sold in order to make a 10% profit?
Shs 14000
Shs 6600
Shs 5460
Shs 2400
Figure ABCD is a trapezium in which angle ABC= 130°, <BCA 30°. Triangle CAD is a right angled triangle. What is the size of angle ADE?
20°
70°
110°
120°
A farmer tied a cow using a rope 14m on a peg to graze. The following day he tied a goat using a rope 7m on the same peg to graze. How much more area was the cow likely to graze than the goat?
616m2
154m2
770m2
462m2
Which of the following is not a property of a right angled triangle?
Two sides are perpendicular.
Two sides of its angles are acutc.
The longest side is opposite the largest angle.
The smallest angle is opposite the longest side.
A trade sold 0.625 of the number of goats he had to a butcher. How many goats was he left with as a percentage?
62.5%
37.5%
38.5%
0.375%
Each diagonal of a rectangular lawn is 15m. If one side is 12m, what is the perimeter of the lawn?
42m
54m
21m
108m
What is the expression 4(x−2y)+2x−5y. 8(4y−x)−10y+8x in the simplest form?
6x−3y 22y−16x
6x−13y_ 22y
6x−13y 40x −18y
6x−13y 22y+16x
Sheila paid Shs 80000 for a motorbike after getting a discount of 20% on the marked price. How much would she have paid if she had been given a 10% discount?
Shs 1000000
Shs 72000
Shs 64000
Shs 90000
The figure below shows lines AE, BF, CG and DH which intersect at point O. What is the size of angle HOG?
60°
40°
50°
30°
What is 4/5, 25%, 0.5, 11/4 arranged in descending order?
25%, 0.5, 4/5, 11/4
11/4, 4/5, 0.5, 25%
4/5, 11/4, 25%, 0.5
0.5, 11/4, 4/5 ,25%
In a class, the ratio of the number of boys to girls is 5:3. What is the percentage of boys in that class?
1662/3%
621/2%
60%
40%
18th July 2014 was a Sunday. Which day was 20th September the same year?
Monday
Tuesday
Saturday
Sunday
Jenny had the following denominations in her cash box. 150 - One shilling coins 20- Five shillings coins 40 - Fifty shillings notes 100 - Hundred shilling notes 5- Two hundred shillings notes She changed all the money to fifty shilling notes. How many notes did she get?
562
256
652
265
Six men working at the same rate can complete painting a house in 8 days. How many more days will it take 4 of the men to complete the same piece of work?
12
6
3
5
The mean of 7 numbers is 5. Six of the numbers are 2, 3, 1, 2, 7, 8. Work out the median of the numbers?
2
2.5
3
5
Below is a rectangular tank not drawn to scale. It is 2/3 full of water. How many mmore litres are needed to fill it?
25000
12500
37500
125000
A room measures 7m long by 6m wide by 4m high. If the door and windows occupy 20m2 and its walls were painted, what area was painted in m2?
104
188
132
84
Below is a travel graph of a motorist from town J to K and back. What was his average speed for the whole journey in m/s?
60m/s
90m/s
25m/s
162/3 m/s
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