Mathematics Questions and Answers - Grade 5 Mid Term 1 Exams 2023 Set 2

QUESTIONS   

1. In Kitui county, there are nine hundred and ninety thousand and ninety people. What is the number of people written in symbols?
   
   1. 99090
   2. 9009090
   3. 990999
   4. 990090
2. Which digit in the number 987431 represents the place value of thousands?
   1. 7
   2. 8
   3. 9
   4. 3
3. In the year 2022, the number of pupils who sat for KCSE exam was 874976 candidates. What is the total value of digit 8?
   
   1. 8,000,000
   2. Hundreds of thousands
   3. 800,000
   4. 8000
4. Owino used the symbols 1, 8, 0, 5 and 9 to form the smallest 5 digit number. Which number did  he form?
   1. 10589
   2. 15890
   3. 01589
   4. 98510
5. Arrange the numbers 1010, 1100, 1001 and 1011 in descending order.
   
   1. 1100, 1010, 1001, 1011
   2. 1001, 1010, 1011, 1100
   3. 1011, 1100, 1010, 1011
   4. 1100, 1011, 1010, 1001
6. Grade 5 learners were asked by their maths teacher to give one number that is divisible by 2, 5 and 10. Who gave the correct
   answer?
   1. Joey - 15
   2. Johnes - 18
   3. Tamara - 30
   4. Malcom - 66
7. Which of the following numbers is not a common multiple of 8 and 6?
   1. 64
   2. 72
   3. 48
   4. 24
8. What is the LCM of 18 and 24?
   1. 432
   2. 108
   3. 36
   4. 72
9. There were 18476 children in a certain town. What is the number of children rounded off to the nearest thousand?
   1. 18500
   2. 19000
   3. 18480
   4. 18000
10. Which number comes before 100,000?
    
    1. 9999
    2. 99999
    3. 100001
    4. 999999
11. What is the product of the third multiple of 4 and the second multiple of 5?
    
    1. 120
    2. 10
    3. 80
    4. 12
12. Mark got ⁸/₁₀ in mathematics. Write the marks he got as a decimal.
    
    1. 8.0
    2. 0.08
    3. 0.8
    4. 80.0
13. How many ½ kg can make 6 kg?
    1. 12
    2. 3
    3. 6
    4. 18
14. Work out the operation below
    Weeks     days
        9            6
    +  5            4     
                             
    1. 15 weeks 0 days
    2. 15 weeks 3 days
    3. 4 weeks 2 days
    4. 14 weeks 3 days
15.  A baby went to sleep at the time shown on the clock face in the evening
    
    What time was it?
    1. 8.15am
    2. 8.03 am
    3. 8.15 pm
    4. 8.03pm
16. Doran had a sh. 200 notes. He changed the money into sh. 50 notes. How many notes did he get?
    
    1. 1000
    2. 250
    3. 400
    4. 4
17. Moffat had x mangoes. He shared the mangoes among three boys. If each boy got 5 mangoes each, how many mangoes had he at the beginning?
    1. 8
    2. 20
    3. 15
    4. 24
18. Grade 5 pupils were asked to draw an obtuse angle. Who drew the correct angle?
    
19. Fill in the missing number below
    ________________  x 7 = 84
    
    1. 12
    2. 91
    3. 77
    4. 21
20. Find the next number in the pattern below
    50, 44, 38, 32, 26, ________________
    1. 19
    2. 18
    3. 21
    4. 20
21. The following are properties of a 2-D shape.
    1. It has 4 sides
    2. All sides are equal
    3. It has 4 right angles
       Which 2 - D shape is described above?
       1. Triangle
       2. Square
       3. Rectangle
       4. Circle
22. What is ³⁵/₈ as a mixed fraction?
    1. 4³/₈
    2. ⁸/₃₅
    3. 3⁵/₈ 
    4. 8³/₄ 
23. A boy had sh. 1000. He bought a textbook worth sh. 699. How much balance did he receive?
    
    1. sh. 401
    2. sh. 1699
    3. sh. 499
    4. sh. 301
24. Kipchoge ran for 180 minutes in the field. How many hours did he take?
    
    1. 4 hrs
    2. 18 hours
    3. 3 hrs
    4. 10 hours
25. Which of these lines shows parallel lines?
    
26. The table below shows different vehicles that passed near Bidii primary school.
    

    Vehicles	Cars	Buses	Lorries	Pickups
    Number	28	18	16	8

    How many more cars than pickups were there?
    
    1. 36
    2. 20
    3. 28
    4. 8
27. A train carries 300 passengers in one trip. How many passengers can the train carry in 20 trips?
    1. 15
    2. 320
    3. 600
    4. 6000
28. Alex prepared tea in a 4000 mililitres sufuria. What is the capacity of the sufuria in litres?
    
    1. 40L
    2. 4L
    3. 400L
    4. 3.4 L
29. A driver saves sh. 450 every day. How much does he save in a week?
    
    1. sh. 3050
    2. sh. 450
    3. sh. 2700
    4. sh. 3150
30. The length of a room is 9 metres. What is the length of the room in centimetres?
    1. 9cm
    2. 9000cm
    3. 900cm
    4. 90cm

MARKING SCHEME

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