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QUESTIONS

1. A farmer harvested 20314 apples in a certain village. What was the number of apples he harvested in words?
   1. Two thousand three hundred and fourteen.
   2. Twenty thousand three hundred and fourteen.
   3. Twenty thousand three hundred and  forty.
   4. Two thousand three hundred and forty.
2. The number of people who attended a new year crossover service were 19026. What is the place value of digit 9 in the number?
   1. Ten thousands
   2. Hundred thousands
   3. Hundreds
   4. Thousands
3. Mandela added 4869 to 9432 and rounded off the answer to the nearest 100. What answer did he get?
   1. 14301
   2. 14300
   3. 14400
   4. 14330
4. The difference between two numbers is 2335. If the smaller number is 909, find the bigger number.
   1. 1426
   2. 3244
   3. 2234
   4. 14365.
5. In a class of 30 pupils, 17 are boys. What fraction of pupils are boys?
   1. ³⁰/₁₇ 
   2. ¹⁷/₃₀ 
   3. ¹³/₃₀ 
   4. ³⁰/₁₃ 
6. One kilogram of sugar costs sh. 47. Find the cost of 7 kgs of sugar,
   1. Sh. 289
   2. Sh. 54
   3. Sh.40
   4. Sh.329
7. A glass of water is ³/₅ full. If I drink ¹/₅ of it, what fraction will remain?
   1. ²/₅ 
   2. ⁴/₅ 
   3. ³/₅ 
   4. ⁵/₂ 
8. Pelister distributed 44 sweets equally among 8 children. How many sweets did Peach child get and how many sweets remained?
   1. 6 remainder 4
   2. 10 remainder 4 
   3. 9 remainder 4
   4. 5 remainder 4
9. Which of the following is an odd number?
   1. 184
   2. 144
   3. 169
   4. 156
10. The classroom door is 235 cm long. What is the length in metres and centimetres?
    
    1. 2m 35cm
    2. 23m 5 cm
    3. 2m 350cm
    4. 23m 50cm
11. Olwenga changed 9²/₅  into an improper fraction. What was his answer?
    1. ⁵/₄₇ 
    2. ⁴⁵/₂ 
    3. ⁴⁷/₅ 
    4. ⁴³/₅ 
12. 90 is a multiple of 18. What is the next multiple of 18 after 90?
    1. 72
    2. 108
    3. 54
    4. 126
13. A shopkeeper packed 36kg of sugar into ¹/₄ kg packets. How many packets did he get?
    1. 9 packets
    2. 144 packets
    3. 36 packets
    4. 72 packets
14. Mwelusi walked around the figure below once. What distance did he cover?
    
    
    1. 21m
    2. 24m
    3. 26m
    4. 30m
15. A farmer harvested eight hundred and nine bags of wheat in 2007 and one thousand and three bags in 2008. How many more bags did he harvest in 2008 than 2007?
    1. 204
    2. 194
    3. 184
    4. 294
16. 8 pencils cost sh. 72. What is the cost of one pencil?
    1. Sh. 9
    2. Sh. 18
    3. Sh. 27
    4. Sh. 64
17. The perimeter of a square is 32cm. Find its length?
    
    1. 128 cm
    2. 64 cm
    3. 16 cm
    4. 8 cm
18. In the figure below, what fraction is unshaded?
    
    
    1. ¹/₉ 
    2. ⁹/₁ 
    3. ⁸/₉ 
    4. ⁷/₈ 
19. A table has 24 plates. Each plate has 6 sweets. How many sweets are on the table altogether?
    1. 4
    2. 104
    3. 144
    4. 30
20. Five children bought the following litres of juice from a shop; 2.5 litres, 2.25 litres, 4.5 litres, 2 litres and 3. 15 litres. Arrange the litres of juice from highest to the lowest.
    1. 3.15, 2.25, 4.5, 2.5, 2
    2. 4.5, 3.15, 2.5, 2.25, 2
    3. 2, 2.5, 4.5, 2.25, 3.15
    4. 2, 2.25, 2.5, 3.15, 4.5
21. Mr. Kariuki had a string of 20 m 20 om. He divided it into 4 equal parts. What is the length of each part?
    1. 5m  5 cm
    2. 4m 4 cm
    3. 5 m 4 cm
    4. 4 m 4 cm
22. Omino has seventy-eight thousand and ninety six cows. What is the number of cows Otieno has in symbols?
    1. 7896
    2. 17896
    3. 780096
    4. 78096
23. A mason constructed a wall using stone blocks. The wall had 6 layers, 8 columns and 10 rows of blocks. How many cubes does the wall have?
    
    1. 24
    2. 240
    3. 120
    4. 480
24. There are 2022 pupils in a school. 1019 are boys. How many girls are there?
    1. 1017
    2. 1003
    3. 3041
    4. 1000
25. James is 90 cm tall and Irene is 89cm tall. Who is taller?
    1. James
    2. Irene
    3. James and irene
    4. None
26. The table below shows the number of sweets eaten by two girls in three days
    

    	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
    Venessa	2	1	3
    Vera	4	4	2

    How many sweets did they eat on Monday and Wednesday altogether?
    1. 11
    2. 6
    3. 10
    4. 12
27. Grade 4 learners changed ⁷/₁₀  into decimal. What was their answer?
    1. 0.007
    2. 0.77
    3. 7.7
    4. 0.7
28. 1, 2, 3 and 5 are factors of a particular number. Which number is it?
    1. 30
    2. 11
    3. 25
    4. 15
29. How many days are there in the months of July, August and September?
    1. 90 days
    2. 63 days
    3. 93 days
    4. 92 days
30. One week has 7 days. 56 days have ____________________ weeks?
    1. 63 
    2. 8
    3. 392
    4. 9

MARKING SCHEME

1. B
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. A
8. D
9. C
10. A
11. C
12. B
13. B
14. D
15. B
16. A
17. D
18. A
19. C
20. B
21. A
22. D
23. D
24. B
25. A
26. A
27. D
28. A
29. D
30. B