ELITES JOINT EXAMINATIONS – 2024

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

121/1 – MATHEMATICS Paper 1 (Alt. A) FORM FOUR

121 / 1 - Mathematics Paper 1
July 2024
Time: 8.00 a.m  10.30 a.m

Name ……………………………………………… Index Number…........………......…………...

Class ……………….……… Date ……………….………Signature……………...…..…………..

Instructions to candidates

(a) Write your name and Index number in the spaces provided above.
(b) Write your class, date of examination and sign in the spaces provided above.
(c) This paper consists of two sections; Section I and Section II.
(d) Answer all the questions in Section I and only five questions from Section II.
(e) Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the
spaces provided below each question.
(f) Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
(g) Non – programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical tables may be
used, except where stated otherwise.
(h) This paper consists of 15 printed pages.
(i) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed
as indicated and that no questions are missing.

For Examiner’s Use Only

Section I

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total

Section II

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total
Grand Total

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SECTION I (50 marks)

Answer all the questions in this section

1 Without tables or calculators, find the value of m: (3 marks)

3 2 1
of 60  2  1
5 3 2 M m
5 7 5 4 4 7
5 1  of 4  2 
8 9 4 5 5 10

2 Derrick cycles a certain distance from X to Y at 10km/hr, he returns at 12km/hr.The total time taken is
1 hr 50 min. find the distance XY. (3 marks)

3 From a viewing tower 30 metres above the ground, the angle of depression of an object on the ground
is 30o and the angle of elevation of an aircraft vertically abovethe object is 42 o. Calculate the height of
the aircraft above the ground. (3 marks)

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4 Find the value of x in the following equation; 36 x 1  62 x  222 (3 marks)

5 A Kenyan company received US dollars 100,000.The money was converted into Kenya shillings in a
bank which buys and sell foreign currencies as shown below

Buying  Kshs  Selling  Kshs 

1 US Dollar 77.24 77.44
1 Sterling pound 122.93 122.23

(a) Calculate the amount of money in Ksh, the company recurred. (1 mark)

(b) The Company changed the Kenya shillings calculated above into sterling pounds to buy a car
in Britain. Calculate the cost of the car to the nearest sterling pounds (2 marks)

6 A polygon of n sides has half of the interior angles 150o each and the rest 170o each. Find the value
of n. (2 marks)

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7 Given that 2  5 x   x  7   6  x and that x is an integer, find the sum of the smallest and the
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largest value of x . (3 marks)

8 (a)Using a pair of compasses and a ruler only, construct a triangle ABC such that AB = 6 cm,
BC = 8 cm and ABC = 135°. (2 marks)

(b) Construct the height of triangle ABC in (a) above taking BC as the base and measure the height.
(2 marks)

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9 Use tables of cubes, square roots and reciprocals to evaluate. . (3 marks)
0.3375
3
 337.5

10 The average lap time for 3 athletes in a long distance race is 36 seconds, 40 seconds and 48 seconds
respectively. If they all start the race at the same time, find the number of times the slowest runner will
have been overlapped by the fastest at the time they all cross the starting point together again.
(3 marks)

3x 2  4 xy  y 2
11 Simplify the expression; (3 marks)
9 x2  y 2

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12 The masses of two similar solid spheres are 4752 g and 1408 g. If the surface area of the small sphere
is 352cm², find the surface area of the larger sphere. (3 marks)

13 A particle travels in a straight line through a fixed point O such that its displacement S metres, from O
is given by S  3t 3  27t 2  72t  4 where t is the time in seconds after passing O. Find the value of t
for which the particle is momentarily at rest. (3 marks)

14 Three businessmen Mark, Benard and Fred decided to buy a bus. The market price of the bus was
sh2,700,000 which was to be met in equal share. The men could pay a deposit of 60% of the money
and the rest to be paid within one year. They raised the deposit in the ratio 3:2:5 respectively. The
balance was to be paid to the dealer from the proceeds of the bus in the same deposits. During the year
the bus realized sh.2,080,000 which was to be shared in the same ratio of deposit contribution.How
much did Fred remain with at the end of the year (4 marks)

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15 The position vectors of points A and B are a and b respectively. Determine the modulus of AB if
~ ~ ~

a  2 i  4 j  3k and b  2i  3 j correct to 4 significant figures. (3 marks)

16 The figure below is a semi-cylindrical solid of length 18cm and radius 3.5cm as shown.

(a) Draw the labeled net of the solid. (2 marks)

(b) Find the surface area of the solid. (2 marks)

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SECTION II (50 marks)

Answer only five questions in this section in the spaces provided.

17 The end – points of a straight line P are (3, 2) and (1, 2) . Another straight line Q is a perpendicular
bisector of P.

(a) Find:
(i) The equation of P in the form y  mx  c where m and c are constants. (2 marks)

(ii) The x and y intercepts of Q. (3 marks)

(b) A third line R passes through a point ( 3, 0) and is parallel to line P.

i) Find the point of intersection between the lines Q and R. (3 marks)

ii) The acute angle that line R makes with the x-axis (2 marks)

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18 Three submarine fighters P, Q, R are such that Q is 400 km on a bearing of 030o from fighter P. Fighter
R is 750km from fighter Q on a bearing of 120o. Another submarine fighter S is 1000km due south of
fighter Q.

(a) Taking a scale of 1cm to represent 100km locate the position of fighters P, Q, R and S. (4 marks)

(b) Find the compass bearing of;

i) Jet P from jet S. (1 mark)

ii) Jet S from Jet R. (1 mark)

(c) Use the scale drawing to determine;

i) The distance of S from P (1 mark)

ii) The distance of R from S. (1 mark)

(d) Find the bearing of;

i) Q from R. (1 mark)

ii) P from R (1 mark)

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19 The figure below shows a glass in form of a frustum of a cone whose top and bottom diameter of 7cm
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and 3.5cm respectively. Its depth is 10cm. Taking   ;
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Calculate;
(a) The cost of painting the outer part of the glass if the cost of painting is kshs.300 per square meter.
(5 marks)

(b) The capacity of the milk in the glass if its three-quarters full of the milk (5 marks)

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20 Two friends Jane and Willis live 40 km apart. One day Jane left her house at 9.00 a.m. and cycled
towards Willis’ house at an average speed of 15 km/hr. Willis left at 10.30 a.m. on the same day and
cycled towards Jane’s house at an average speed of 25 km/hr.

(a) Determine;
(i) The distance from Jane’s house, where the two friends met. (3 marks)

(ii) The time they met. (2 marks)

(iii) How far Jane was from Willis’ house when they met? (2 marks)

(b) The two friends took 10 minutes at the meeting point and they cycled to Willis’ house at an
average speed of 12km/hr. Find the time they arrived at Willis’ house. (3 marks)

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21 The table below shows marks out of 40 obtained by 100 students in form 4 while preparing for Elite
joint examination.

Marks 1 5 6  10 11  20 21  25 26  40
Number of students 7 3p  2 38 5p  3 p

(a) Determine the value of p. (2 marks)

(b) Calculate the mean to 2 decimal places. (3 marks)

(c) Using a scale 1 cm to represent 5 marks on the horizontal axis and an area of 1 cm² to represent 5
students, draw a histogram to represent this data. (3 marks)

(d) Use the histogram to estimate the median and draw a vertical line on the histogram to show the
median. (2 marks)

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22 Matrix P is given by  
5 8

(a) Find P 1 . (2 marks)

(b) Two institutions, Ogongo High School and Waondo High School, purchased beans at sh. b per
bag and maize at sh. m per bag. Ogongo High school purchased 8 bags of beans and 14 bags of
maize for sh. 47,600. Waondo High school purchased 10 bas of beans and 16 bags of maize for
sh. 57,400.
i) Form matrix equation to represent the information above (1 mark)

ii) Use the matrix method to find the prices of one bag of each item. (4 marks)

(c) The price of beans later went up by 5% and that of maize remained constant. Ogongo High school
bought the same quantity of beans but spent the same total amount of money as before on the two
items. State the new ratio of beans of maize. (3 marks)

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23 The equation of a curve is y  2 x 2  x  1

(a) Find

(i) The equation of the tangent to the curve at  5, 44  (3 marks)

(ii) The x intercepts (2 marks)

(b) (i) Determine the stationary point of the curve (3 marks)

(ii) Clearly Sketch the curve (2 marks)

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24 The coordinates of triangle PQR are P  1,3 , Q  3, 4  and R  2,1 .

(a) On the grid provided, draw triangle PQR. (1 mark)

(b) Draw PQR  the image of PQR under a rotation of +90o about  0, 0  . (2 marks)

(c) Draw PQR  the image of PQR  under a reflection in the line y   x . (2 marks)

(d) (i) Draw PQR  the image of PQR  under a rotation of 90 about  0, 0  (2 marks)

(ii) Describe a single transformation that maps PQR onto P’’’Q”’R’’’ (2 marks)

(e) Calculate the area of the quadrilateral QQQ (1 mark)

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