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QUESTIONS

1. By the end of a certain month, the number of 4. Corona Virus diseases (COVID-19) patients in the country was 103125. The following month had 4287 new patients. What is the place value of digit 7 in the total number of patients.
   1. Seven thousands
   2. Thousands
   3. Ones
   4. Hundreds 
2. In order to ensure that vehicles on the roads had speed governors, the traffic police inspected 725349 vehicles. What is the total value of digit 7 in the number 725349?
   1. 70 000
   2. Hundred thousands
   3. 700 000
   4. 7000
3. Cows on Nyansiango farm produce eight hundred and eighty nine thousand, four hundred and twenty six litres of milk. Write the amount of milk the cows produce in symbols?
   1. 880426
   2. 808426
   3. 809426
   4. 889426
4. In a certain sub-county the number of Grade 6 learners in four zones is as shown in the table below.
   

   Zone	W	X	Y	Z
   No. of learners	11012	11201	11102	11120

   Which zone has the lowest number of learners?
   1. W
   2. X
   3. Y
   4. Z
5. The number of people in five constituencies are as follows;
   84639, 83936, 85693, 89563 and 88635.
   Write the numbers in ascending order
   1. 83936, 84639, 85693, 88635, 89563 
   2. 89563, 88635, 85693, 84639, 83936 
   3. 84639, 83936, 85693, 89563, 88635
   4. 83936, 84639, 88635,85693, 89563
6. Round off 87129 to the nearest thousand
   1. 87100
   2. 87000
   3. 87130
   4. 88000
7. Work out: 99²
   1. 198
   2. 9701
   3. 9801
   4. 9809 
8. Mobisa sub divided his farm into equal square plots. The area of each plot is 7225m². What is the length of one side of each plot?
   1. 75m
   2. 170m
   3. 95m
   4. 85m 
9. Estimate the difference by rounding off each number to the nearest 1000.
     4 6 3 5 3
   −2 2 7 2 8   
                      
   1. 23625
   2. 24000
   3. 23600
   4. 23000 
10. What is the missing number in this pattern
    460, 920, 1840, 3680, __________, __________?
    1. 7360
    2. 7260
    3. 14720
    4. 5520
11. Work out
    768 ÷ 24 x 43 + 579 − 415 =
    1. 1560
    2. 1540
    3. 1570
    4. 1583
12. Find the LCM of 6, 12 and 18
    1. 36
    2. 24
    3. 12
    4. 6
13. In a certain county, 46321 male teachers and 52472 female teachers attended the Competency Based Curriculum training. How many teachers attended the training altogether?
    1. 98793
    2. 6151
    3. 97793
    4. 98783
14. Estimate the product of the numbers by using compatibility of numbers.
    315 x 47
    1. 14805
    2. 16000
    3. 14800
    4. 14810
15. During a dry season, 385 packets of maize flour were shared equally among 18 families. How many packets of maize flour remained?
    1. 21
    2. 22
    3. 7
    4. 403
16. What is the place value of digit 7 in the number 30.837
    1. Ones
    2. Tenths
    3. 0.07
    4. Thousandths
17. Work out
    43¹/₆ + 19²/₅ =
    1. 52¹⁷/₃₀
    2. 62³/₁₁ 
    3. 62³/₅ 
    4. 62¹⁷/₃₀ 
18. What is the reciprocal of 3²/₇?
    1. 3
    2. ²³/₇ 
    3. ⁷/₂₃ 
    4. ⁷/₃₂ 
19. Work out: (2¼)² 
    1. 4¹/₁₆ 
    2. 5¹/₁₆ 
    3. ¹⁶/₈₁ 
    4. 4¼ 
20. Marube had ⁷/₉ litres of medicine. He gave ³/₈ litres to his sick goat. What fraction of the medicine remained?
    1. ²⁹/₇₂ 
    2. 1¹¹/₇₂ 
    3. ⁵/₁ 
    4. ¹⁰/₁₇ 
21. A school has 586 boys and 430 girls. The school bought 856 face masks. If each learners were given a face mask, how many learners did not receive a face mask?
    1. 1016
    2. 160
    3. 270
    4. 426
22. Estimate the quotient by rounding off the dividend and the divisor to the nearest ten.
    1203 ÷ 210
    1. 5
    2. 1404
    3. 6
    4. 5 rem 198
23. What is the square root of 16?
    
    1. 256
    2. 32
    3. 16
    4. 4
24. What is the sum of all the even numbers between 3 and 11?
    1. 21 
    2. 28
    3. 49
    4. 27 
25. Grade 5 learners from Kegogi primary school 28. were learning about 3-D objects identify and name the objects drawn on the figure below
    
    1. cube
    2. cyclinder
    3. pyramid
    4. cuboid
26. Use greater than, equal to and less than to fill in the blank space and make the statement correct
    ⁸/₉ is _____________________ ⁷/₈ 
    1. greater than
    2. none
    3. equal to
    4. less than 
27. The learner from grade 5 were measuring lines and recording then using the units of mm What will be length from XO to OY in mm
    that was to be recorded
    
    
    1. 11mm
    2. 110mm
    3. 50mm
    4. 60mm
28. Six girls take a total of 5 min 30 seconds to skip a rope. How long does each girl take to homeskip if they all take the same time?
    1. 31min
    2. 11min 30sec
    3. 55 sec
    4. 1min 6 sec
29. Work out the volume of the figure drawn below
    
    1. 36cm³
    2. 846cm³
    3. 144cm³
    4. 1728cm³
30. Find the value of the unknown
    7y + 5 = 47
    1. 7
    2. 52
    3. 6
    4. 42

MARKING SCHEME

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