Open Source Content Management

QUESTIONS

1. There are eight hundred and eight thousand eight hundred and eight books in a county library. What is the number of books in words?
   1. 808808
   2. 8808
   3. 880808
   4. 8080808
2. A farmer harvested 109929 kilograms of yellow beans. What is the place value of digit 0 in the number?
   1. Thousands
   2. Hundreds
   3. Ten thousands
   4. Hundred thousand.
3. Mzalendo bought 36 goats and 48 sheep. He shared the animals among some of his relatives. Find the highest possible number of relatives who shared the animals equally.
   1. 12
   2. 6
   3. 72
   4. 8
4. Tea was packed into 10 kg packets. Which of the following amount of tea was packed into exact number of packets?
   1. 90385
   2. 26150
   3. 12088
   4. 24004
5. What is the next number in the sequence? 2, 3, 5, 6, ________________________
   1. 9
   2. 11
   3. 8
   4. 10
6. The number of stationeries sold by Tusome bookshop in four months was; 20203, 22300, 20023 and 23020. Arrange the number of stationeries in discending order.
   1. 20023, 20203, 22300, 23020
   2. 23,020, 20023, 20203, 22300
   3. 20023, 20203, 23020, 22300
   4. 23020, 22300, 20203, 20023
7. Mangoes are arranged in piles of 12 mangoes. How many mangoes will be there in 42 piles?
   1. 54
   2. 504
   3. 30
   4. 484
8. Some correctly converted 4²/₃ into an improper fraction. What answer did he get?
   1. ⁴²/₃₁ 
   2. ¹⁴/₃ 
   3. ¹⁴/₂ 
   4. ⁴³/₂ 
9. Pupils from two schools planted 45838 and 47362 Un tree seedlings. What is the total value of digit 2 after finding the sum of the number of seedlings?
   1. 200000
   2. 2000
   3. 200
   4. Twenty thousand.
10. Three ladies contributed sh. 905 each for a charity work. How much money did they contribute in total?
    1. Sh. 4550
    2. Sh. 2705
    3. Sh. 2715
    4. Sh. 908
11. Mzee Juma divided his piece of land into the following fractions;
    ¹/₁₀, ²/₅, ¹/₂ . Arrange the fractions in descending order.
    1. ¹/₂, ²/₅, ¹/₁₀ 
    2. ¹/₁₀, ²/₅, ¹/₂
    3. ²/₅, ¹/₁₀ ,¹/₂ 
    4. ¹/₂, ¹/₁₀, ²/₅
12. In a school, there are 894 pupils. The girls are 432. How many boys are in the school?
    1. 462
    2. 1326
    3. 1236
    4. 362
13. A school received a piece of land that was 73.584 acres. What is the place value of digit 8 in the number 73.584?
    1. Tens
    2. Hundreds
    3. Hundredths
    4. Tenths
14. The distance from Nderitu's home to school is 7 km 21 m. What is the distance in metres?
    1. 7000 m
    2. 7021 m
    3. 7500 m
    4. 721 m
15. A rectangular table measures 35 cm by 17 cm. What is the area of the table?
    1. 214cm²
    2. 52cm² 
    3. 495cm²
    4. 595cm²
16. Keziah walked around the figure below. What distance did she cover altogether?
    
    
    1. 94m
    2. 146m
    3. 188m
    4. 100m
17. A jug contained 2 litres of porridge. Mwema took 0.95 litres of the porridge. How much porridge remained in the jug?
    1. 2. 075 litres
    2. 1.05 litres
    3. 1.025 litres
    4. 0.73 litres
18. Halima borrowed x books while Judy borrowed y books. How many books did they borrow altogether?
    1. x + y
    2. x − y
    3. y − x
    4. xy
19. Mkenya had ⁴/₅L of juice. He drunk ¹/₁₀L from it. How much juice remained?
    1. ³/₁₀L
    2. ³/₅L
    3. ⁷/₁₀L
    4. ¹⁰/₇L
20. A tailor had a piece of cloth of length 488 cm. He cut the clothe into smaller pieces each 42 cm long. What length of clothes remained if he used the pieces to make a table cloth?
    1. 16cm
    2. 11cm
    3. 446cm
    4. 26cm
21. A school holiday lasted for 20 days. How many hours were these?
    1. 480 hours
    2. 4800 hours
    3. 20 hours
    4. 240 hours
22. A piece of cloth was bought at sh.145 30 cts. How much will be spent in buying 8 such pieces of cloth?
    1. Sh. 1160 240cts
    2. Sh. 1162 40cts
    3. Sh. 1160 40cts
    4. Sh. 1162 240cts 
23. Otieno had 4-two hundred shilling notes. He changed them into 50 shilling notes. How many 50 shilling notes did he get?
    
    1. Five
    2. Sixteen
    3. Eight
    4. Ten
24. A square has a perimeter of 56 cm. What is the length of one side?
    1. 14 cm
    2. 224 cm
    3. 28 cm
    4. 14 m 
25. A tile was in the shape of a cube. The length of the sides of the tile was 12 cm. What was the volume of the tile?
    
    
    1. 144cm³
    2. 36cm³ 
    3. 1728cm³ 
    4. 1584cm³ 
26. A tap takes 20 minutes 55 seconds to fill a tank. How long will the tap take to fill four such tanks?
    1. 82mins 40seconds
    2. 83mins 20 seconds
    3. 83mins 40 seconds
    4. 82mins 20 seconds
27. What is; 300 x 14?
    1. 4200
    2. 420
    3. 440
    4. 210
28. What is ¹/₃ × 18?
    1. 18
    2. 6
    3. 3
    4. 15
29. Kamau started working on his farm at 7:45 am. If he spent 4h 15 min, at what time did he stop working?
    1. 12:00 noon
    2. 12:30 pm
    3. 3:30 am
    4. 1:00 pm
30. Okoth is 7 years older than his brother. What is the age of his brother if Okoth is x years old?
    1. X
    2. X + 7
    3. 7 − X
    4. X − 7

MARKING SCHEME

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