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NKHAMENYA ZONE EXAMINATIONS BOARD

2024 STANDARD 8 MOCK


MATHEMATICS
100 MARKS
SECTION A (Multiple Choice)

1. How many Olympiads are there in two


instrums?
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A. 2
2
B. 4
C. 5
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D. 7
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2. Which of the following are the prime A. Right angled
factors of 18? B. Scalene
A. 6 and 9 C. Equilateral
B. 3 and 6 D. Isosceles
C. 2 and 9 7. A school has 1200 learners. If 30% are girls
D. 2 and 3 how many boys are there?
3. What is the value of 7 in the number A. 840
675.2931 B. 360
A. Hundredth C. 1000
B. Hundred D. 720
C. Tens 8. A circular fish pond has a radius of 7𝑚. Find
D. thousandth its circumference.
4. A tank holds 24,000 liters of petrol. What is A. 22𝑚
the volume of water in the tank? B. 154𝑚
A. 240𝑚3 C. 216𝑚
B. 24𝑚3 D. 44𝑚
C. 2.4𝑚3 1 2 1
9. Simplify 2 × ÷
D. 0.24𝑚3 2 5 10

5. Takondwa is 𝑥 years old. If in ten years she A. 10


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will celebrate her silver jubilee, how old is B.
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she now? C. 20
A. 15 D. 8
B. 40
C. 50
D. 20
6. Identify the type of triangle below
10. Chikondi and Chifundo shared oranges in 15. The marked price of plastic chair was K12
the ratio 2:3 respectively. If Chikondi got 500. If a discount of 10% was given on each
30 oranges, what was the total number of chair, find the selling price.
oranges? A. K11 250
A. 20 B. K1 250
B. 45 C. K13 750
C. 50 D. K10 500
D. 75 16. Isaac paid K180 000 as a custom duty on
11. A certain head teacher overestimated the imported items. If this represents 60% of the
number of learners by 2.5%. After cost price, find the cost price.
thoroughly counting he found that there A. K108 000
were 800 learners. What was his B. K210 000
overestimated number of learners? C. K510 000
A. 820 D. K300 000
B. 780 17. Tadala gets a commission of K40. 00 for
C. 540 every 5 shirts she sells. If she sells 25 shirts,
D. 840 find her commission
12. If the area of a square is 144𝑐𝑚2, what is A. K8.00
it’s perimeter? B. 200.00
A. 36𝑐𝑚 C. 150.00
B. 48𝑐𝑚 D. 400.00
C. 72𝑐𝑚 18. Martha is 𝑛 years old. Tapiwa is 4 years
D. 56𝑐𝑚 older than Martha. If the sum of their ages is
5 42 years, how old is Tapiwa?
13. At a certain school, of the learners are
8
1 A. 36
boys. If of the girls stay at the boarding, B. 19
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how many girls do not stay at the boarding? C. 22
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A. D. 20
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3 19. The average age for 8 learners is 24 years.
B.
8 What is the total age for the 8 learners?
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C. A. 3
8
5 B. 96
D.
8
C. 48
14. Change 2:45 to 24 hours
D. 192
A. 13:45 hrs
20. Find the total cost of 200 tomatoes which
B. 14:45hrs
are sold at 4 for K500
C. 16:45hrs
A. K25 000
D. 12:45hrs
B. K2 000
C. K100 000
D. K30 000

Section b
21. a). Simplify 10km to 200m to it’s lowest term

b). find the value of 𝑥 in the equation 3𝑥 + 2 = 18 − 𝑥

22. a). Taonga bought 12 trays of eggs at K100 each egg. She sold all the eggs for K12600. Find her
profit percentage.

b). Mavuto planted 125 seeds but only 100 seeds germinated. What percentage of the seeds did not
germinate?
23. a). A tank is 8𝑚 long, 6𝑚 wide and 4𝑚 deep is full of water. What is the capacity of water in the
tank?

b). Calculate the difference between simple interest and compound interest of K60 000 for 2 years
at 10% per annum

24. a). Extend the following number pattern (20, 4) (40, 2) (80, __) (16 __) (10, __)
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b). A minibus takes 3 hrs to travel from town A to town B at an average speed of 70km/hr. how
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far is town B from town A?

25. a). Find the area of the shaded part

26. a) Draw a bar graph showing the population of a certain village over a period of 5 years. Use a scale
of 2𝑐𝑚 to represent 200 people on vertical axis and 2𝑐𝑚 to represent one year on horizontal axis

Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020


population 450 600 700 800 1000
27. a). Construct triangle ABC with sides AB= 6𝑐𝑚 and BC= 5𝑐𝑚 and angle ABC = 65°

b). Measure and record the length of AC

28. prepare a cash book for Tadala from the following transactions and balance it as on October 31,
2023
October 1 balance in cash……….. K40 000
October 20 cash purchase……….. K15 000
October 25 banked……………… K25 000
October 30 withdrew……………. K8 000
END OF QUESTION PAPER

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