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CORONA SERIES EXAM

MATHEMATICS STD 8

STANDARD EIGHT (8) CORONA SERIES EXAMS

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CORONA SERIES EXAM

MATHEMATICS STANDARD EIGHT (8)

1. What is the place value of digit 9 in the 5. The area of a square plot is 1764m2. Poles
difference between three million, six hundred are planted at intervals of 4m. How much
and eighty two thousand, four hundred and money does a farmer require to fence the
two and one million six hundred and ninety plot if one pole cost sh. 220?
four thousand, six hundred and eighteen.
A. sh 9240 B. sh 36,960

A. Hundred thousand C. sh. 880 D. sh 168

6. What is the next number in the

B. Ten thousand
pattern?
C. Millions
0.6, 0.7, 1.3, 2.0
D. Thousands
A. 4.7 B. 3.3
2. Write forty two millions six hundred and
eighteen thousand four hundred and two and C. 4.2 D. 3.8
seven thousandth in figures. 7. The figure below holds 24.948 liters. If its
A. 42618402.07 diameter is 42cm. What is its height?

B. 42680402.007 Take pi =

C. 42618402.007

D. 42618420.007

3. In a town there were three thousand and

thirty men, two thousand five hundred and
eighty women. The number of children was
twice that of men. How many people
altogether were in the town?

A. 5610 B. 11,670

C 6060 D. 10770
A. 16cm B. 14cm
4. What isthe least denominator that can be
used in the addition of , and C. 12cm D. 18cm

8. What is 36.098 rounded to two decimal

A. 32 B. 18
places?
C. 36 D. 24
A. 36.010 B. 36.1

C. 36.10 D. 36.09

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9. In 2004, the number of HIV patients 14. A tank has a volume of 6.075m3. How
recorded in a certain hospital was 360. After many liters of water can it hold when full?
HIV awareness, the patients decreased by 30%
in 2005. How many HIV patients were there in A. 607.5 B. 60.75
2005? C. 6075 D. 0.6075
A. 252 B. 108 15. What is the total value of digit 8 in
C. 216 D. 300 4386507?

10. Peter sent his son to a supermarket to buy A. 8000 B. 800000

the following items C. 800 000 D. 80000
2kg sugar @ sh 60.00 16. After increasing the number of animals in
2-2kg kasuku @ sh 380.00 a farm in the ratio of 5:2, there were 140
animals in the farm. What was the increase?
2 packets of pishori rice @sh 70.00
A. 56 B. 112
2 packets exe flour for 220.00
C. 140 D. 84
He gave the shopkeeper sh. 1500. How much
should he give the shopkeeper so as to get a 17. What is the total value of 4 in the sum of
balance of sh. 300? 8326825 and 4818430?

A. sh 260 B. sh 20 A. Forty thousand

C. sh. 40 D. sh 140 B. 4000

11. When 7.156 is divided by 1000, what is C. Four thousand

the place value of digit 1? D. Four thousandth
A. Tenth B. Thousandth 18. The following are properties of
C. Hundredth D. Ten thousandth quadrilaterals

12. Ann scored 48% in mathematics and 46% (i) All sides are equal
in science. Express the total scores as a (ii) Diagonals are equal
decimal
(iii) All angles are equal
A. 94.0 B. 0.94
(iv) Has a pair of parallel lines
C. 9.4 D. 9.40
(v) Diagonals are perpendicular bisectors
13. A circular table of diameter 91cm was
decorated all round with flowers placed at (vii) Opposite sides are equal and parallel
intervals of 11cm. How many flowers were
(vii) The sum of interior angles equals 3600
used? Take pi = 22/7
Which properties are for all quadrilaterals?
A. 26 B. 13

C. 297 D. 37

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A. v and vii 22. What is 0.4 + 0.8 as a fraction?

B. viiC. iii A. 1 B. 1.2

D. iii and vii

C. 1 D. 3.2
19.What is the value of
23. An athlete running at an average speed of
15.675 ÷ 0.015 36km/h covered a certain distance in 7
minutes. What distance did he cover?
26.325 ÷ 1.17
(give your answer to 2 decimal places) A. 4.2km B. 21.6km

A. 46.44 B. 464.04 C. 1.512km D. 15.12km

C. 464.40 D. 46.45 24. What is the value of?

20. What is the perimeter of the figure 6 - x ÷

below?
A. 5 B. 6

C. 3 D. 3

25. Below are the number of students who

were admitted into various Kenya public
A. 30 cm B. 300 cm
universities in year 2014.
C. 50 cm D. 150 cm
Maseno = 9500
21. What is the area of the shaded part in the
Nairobi = 10250
figure below?
Jomo Kenyatta = 2500

Egerton = 1250

How many more students were admitted in

Nairobi than in both Jomo Kenyatta and
Egerton?

A. 26250 B. 5000

C. 2500 D 6500
A. 262 m2 B. 154cm2
26. A rectangular plot has a diagonal of
C.416 m 2
D. 448m 2 39m and a width of 15m. What is its area in
Ares?

A. 540 B. 548

C. 58.5 D. 5.4

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27. What is the simplified form of? 200 newspaper at sh 35 each. What was his
commission that month?
6x 9 2y 4
4 2 7 4 A. sh 1050

A. B. sh 3000

! C. sh 3850
B.
D. sh 1750
C. 32. Wayne borrowed sh. 50,000 from a bank
that charged compound interest at the
!
D. rate of 120/0 p.a. How much did she pay back
at the end of 30 months?
28. Construct triangle XYZ whereby XY=8cm;
ZX=6.5cm and angle ZXY=750. On the triangle , A. sh 15,123.20
draw a circle touching the three vertices.
B. B. sh 15,000
What is the measure of the radius?
C. sh. 66,483.20
A. 9.2cm B. 4cm
D. D. sh 65.000
C. 4.6cm D. 2cm
33. Musa thought of a number. After
29. What is the product of faces and vertices
subtracting 5 from its square, he got 139.
of a square prism?
What number had he thought of?
A. 48 B. 40
A. 144 B. 12
C. 72 D. 72
C. 139 D. 36
30. Two lorries each weighing 3.8 tonnes
34. What is the value of?
when empty were each loaded with 320 bags
of cement. What was the total mass of the 1.5 of 0.25 ÷ 1.5 + 4.5
lorries and cement if each bag of cement has a
mass of 50kg? A. 45.25 B. 4.525

A. 35.8 tonnes C. 7.5 D. 4.75

B. 39.6 tonnes 35. The line below is drawn to scale

1:250 000. What is the actual distance in
C. 32 tonnes kilometers?
D. 23.6 tonnes

A. 162.50 B. 12.6
31. Martin a newspaper vendor earns a salary C. 16.25 D. 1625
of sh 2800. He is also given a 15% commission
on all the papers sold. In one month he sold

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36. The pie chart below shows 40. What is the volume of the cylinder
Harriet’smonthly expenditure. below in cm3? Take pi= 22/7

If she spends sh. 750 on transport, how much

A. 9702 cm3 B.1270.5 cm3
more does she spend on food than on
clothing? C. 4851cm3 D. 1617cm3

A. sh. 750 B.sh. 6000 41. January 28th year 2008 was a Monday.
Which day was March 14th the same year?
C. sh. 3750 D. sh. 2250

37. The marked price of a refrigerator is sh.

A. Friday B. Tuesday
30000. Mary bought it on hire purchase terms,
which is 30% more than the marked price. She C. Thursday D. Wednesday
paid a deposit of sh. 10000 plus ten monthly
installments. How much did she pay as 42. A businessman bought 4 sacks of beans @
installment? sh 5000 and later sold them at a profit of 33%.
What was the selling price of the 4 sacks.
A. sh 900 B. sh 9000
A. sh 6600 B. sh 26600
C. sh 9200 D. sh 2900
C. sh 6650 D. sh 24600
38.Construct quadrilateral PQRS whereby
PQ=8cm and PS=10cm. Angle SPQ=70. Draw 43. Mary borrowed sh 30000 from a bank
the two diagonals to meet at point x. Measure which paid simple interest at the rate of 20%
angle SXR. per year. How much interest had the money
earned at the end of 2 years?
A. 1030 B. 400
A. sh 6000
C. 790 D. 760
B. sh 12000
39. A square of side 12cm has the same area
as a triangle with a base of 9cm. What is the C. sh 114000
height of the triangle?
D. sh 144000
A. 64cm B. 32cm

C. 24cm D. 16cm

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44. After sleeping for 5hrs 55min. Peter woke

up at 3.40am. At what time had he gone to
bed in 24hrs clock system?

A. 2145hrs B. 0340hrs
48. The father’s age is 10 years older than his
C. 0945hrs D. 945hrs
son while that of the mother was 5 years
45. Eighteen workers working at the same rate younger than the father. If the son is x years.
were to complete a piece of work in 15days. What will be their total age in five years to
How much more days would it take if six come?
workers failed to attend?
A. 3x - 35 B. 3x + 15
A. 7 B. 4
! C. 3x + 25 D. 3 x + 30

C. 7 D. 7! 49. The temperature of a liquid was recorded

as 1500 C. It was first cooled at the rate of 600
The following are properties of a C per min for the first 8 minutes and then
quadrilateral. heated at the rate of 50 C for the rest of the
period. What was its temperature after 15
i. Diagonals bisect each other 900
minutes?
ii. Diagonals do not bisect each other at 900
A. 280 C B. 680 C
iii. All sides are equal
C. -2950 C D. 630 C
iv. Opposite sides are equal and parallel
50. How many triangles are in the figure
46. Which properties are for squares only? below?

A.I, iv B. I, iii

C.I, ii D. I only

47. Mary paid sh. 7600 for a carpet after

getting a discount of 20%. What percentage
discount would she get if she paid sh. 7220?

A. 24% B. 28% A. 5 B. 4

C. 76% D. 34% C. 8 D. 9

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