Mathematics Questions and Answers - Grade 5 End Term 1 Exams 2023 Set 3

QUESTIONS

1. In a certain county, there are eighty nine thousand and sixteen people. What is the number of people written in symbols?
   
   1. 8916
   2. 89016
   3. 890016
   4. 916
2. Which digit is in the thousands place value in the number 780462?
   
   1. 4
   2. 6
   3. 0
   4. 8
3. In the year 2020, the number of pupils who sat for KCSE exam was 934607 candidates. What is the total value of digit 9 in the number given?
   
   1. 900000
   2. 9000
   3. 90000
   4. 9000000
4. In a Game Park, the number of Zebras, Warthogs, Antelopes, Gazelles and Elephants are: 8964, 8046, 9649, 9924 and 7648 respectively. Arrange the numbers in ascending order.
   
   1. 7648, 8046, 8964, 9649, 9924
   2. 9924, 9649, 8964, 8046, 7648
   3. 7648, 8964, 8046, 9924, 9649
   4. 8964, 7648, 8046, 9649, 9924.
5. A school fenced its compound using 6397 posts. What is this number of posts rounded off to the nearest thousand?
   
   1. 6390
   2. 7000
   3. 6000
   4. 6300
6. An ATM machine reads the following numbers on daily occurrences. Which one of the following groups of numbers is divisible by 10?
   
   1. 80, 76, 33, 70
   2. 60, 49, 65, 90
   3. 13, 20, 50, 35
   4. 20, 50, 40, 70,
7. The following are ages of different people in a certain locality. Which one of the following numbers is not a common multiple of 6 and 8? 
   1. 72
   2. 48
   3. 64
   4. 248.
8. A teacher wrote numbers 45 and 60 on the chalkboard. He told learners to calculate the LCM of the two numbers. What was the correct answer?
   1. 180
   2. 360
   3. 450
   4. 240
9. The number of students who joined universities in one year was 366311. The following year, the number was 36428 students. How many students joined university in the two years?
   
   1. 403639
   2. 329783
   3. 330783
   4. 402739
10. A teacher wrote the pattern: 121400, 131400, 141400, and 151400. She asked her learners to get the next num- ber. What was the number?
    
    1. 161400
    2. 162400
    3. 153400
    4. 160400
11. Peter got ⁹/₁₀ in English. Write the marks he got as a decimal?
    
    1. 9
    2. 9.0
    3. 0.9
    4. 0.09
12. Work out the operation below. 
     Hrs           Mins
       3               45
    +5                20. 
    ________________
    
    1. 8hrs 65mins
    2. 9hrs 5mins
    3. 8hrs 5mins
    4. 9hrs 65mins
13. A shopkeeper packed 10kg of sugar in ¹/₄Kg packets. How many packets did he make?
    
    1. 40
    2. 6
    3. 3
    4. 12
14. Juma woke up at the time shown on the clock face. What time did he wake up?
    
    1. 8:15 pm 
    2. 8:03 pm
    3. 8:15am
    4. 8:03am
15. A shopkeeper had a Sh. 500 note. She changed the money into Sh. 50 notes. How many notes did she get?
    1. 10
    2. 8
    3. 5
    4. 4 
16. A teacher had y pencils. He shared the pencils among four girls. If each girl got 5 pencils, how many pencils had he at the beginning? 
    1. 20
    2. 24
    3. 9
    4. 15
17. Which among the following is an acute angle?
    
18. A member of parliament gave of the money collected during a fundraising ceremony to the needy for fees. What is the simplest form of the fraction?
    1. ³/₄
    2. ⁴/₁₂
    3. ⁷/₁₂ 
    4. ³/₁₂
19. A teacher wrote the following on a number card. Fill in the missing number.
    
    
    1. 21
    2. 20
    3. 40
    4. 12
20. Rosemary had Sh. 1050. She bought 1kg of cooking fat worth Sh. 599. How much balance did she receive?
    
    1. Sh. 1109
    2. Sh. 450
    3. Sh. 1649
    4. Sh. 451
21. Arrange the fractions ²/₃, ¹/₆, ¹/₂, ¹/₈ from the largest to the smallest.
    1.  ¹/₈, ²/₃,¹/₆, ¹/₂
    2.  ²/₃, ¹/₂, ¹/₆, ¹/₈
    3. ¹/₂, ¹/₆, ¹/₈,  ²/₃,
    4.  ²/₃,¹/₆, ¹/₈, ¹/₂ 
22. Maria took 120 minutes to fetch water from the river and back to her home. How many hours did she take?
    1. 2 hrs
    2. 12 hrs
    3. 4 hrs
    4. 10 hrs
23. In a school hall, there are 246 benches. Each bench is used by 12 learners comfortably. How many learners can sit on all benches?
    1. 258
    2. 234
    3. 2952 
    4. 2950
24. A tank had 5050.072 litres of water. After one week, 1020.069 litres had been used. How much water was
    remaining in the tank?
    
    1. 6070.072L
    2. 4030.003L
    3. 4930.03L
    4. 5070.072L
25. The distance from the Chief's camp to the dispensary is 3400 m. What is the distance in Kilometers?  
    1. 340000 km
    2. 3400 km
    3. 34 km
    4. 3.4 km
26. A square measures 12 cm by 12 cm. What is its area?
    1. 144 cm² 
    2. 164cm² 
    3. 24 cm² 
    4. 414 cm² 
27. Packets in the shape of 1 cm cubes were arranged and filled a carton as shown below. 
    
    What was the volume of the carton?
    1. 467cm³
    2. 570 cm³
    3. 26cm³
    4. 576 cm³
28. The length of a room is 10 metres. What is the length of the room in centimetres?
    1. 100 cm
    2. 10000 cm
    3. 1000 cm
    4. 0.1 cm
29. A shopkeeper had 42 kg 100g of flour. She sold 32 kg 400g of the flour. What mass of the flour remained?
    1. 9 kg 700g
    2. 10 kg 300g
    3. 9 kg 300g
    4. 5 kg 200g
30. Juma prepared 5000 milliliters of juice. What is the capacity of the juice in litres?
    1. 50L
    2. 500L
    3. 5.5L
    4. 5L 

MARKING SCHEME

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