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Ketepa tea worth ksh. 40 per kg is mixed with Sasini tea worth sh. 60 per kg in the ratio 3:1. In what ratio should this
mixture be mixed with Kericho tea worth sh. 50 per kg to produce a mixture worth sh. 47 per kg.
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May 3, 2019
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Factors influencing dispersed settlement pattern.
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May 3, 2019
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Factors influencing linear settlement pattern
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May 3, 2019
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Two taps A and B together, can fill water in a tank in 6 minutes. Tap A alone takes 5 minutes longer to fill the tank than
the tap B alone. How many minutes does it take tap B alone to fill the tank.
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May 3, 2019
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Make p the subject of the formula;
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May 3, 2019
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Rono invested a sum of money, sh p at 24% p.a simple interest for 8 years and realised that he got the same amount as
Wekesa who invested sh. 2p for 4 years at compound interest. Calculate the rate of interest p.a
Wekesa enjoyed.
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May 3, 2019
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Use logarithms correct to 4 significant figures to evaluate.
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May 3, 2019
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A bus travels from Murang’a to Meru a distance of 320km at a speed of x km/h. If the speed is reduced by 20km/h the
bus would take 48 minutes more.
a) Form an equation to represent the given information and simplify it.
b) Find the speed of the bus.
c) Determine the time taken by the bus for the whole journey.
d) Another car is moving from Meru to Murang’a at a speed of 80km/h. Determine their relative speed.
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May 3, 2019
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The table below shows measurements, in metres made by surveyor in his field book.
i) Using an appropriate scale draw the region.
ii) Find the area in hectares of the filed.
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May 3, 2019
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Describe fault guided drainage pattern.
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May 3, 2019
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Describe centripetal drainage pattern.
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May 3, 2019
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Given that a = 5i + 4j, b = 3i - 2j and c = 7i + 10j; find the scalars m and n such that ma + nb = c
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May 3, 2019
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The cash price of a music system is kshs. 30,000. It can be bought under hire purchase terms by paying a deposit of
kshs. 10,000 and twelve monthly installments of Kshs. 3,200 per month. Determine the percentage rate of interest per
month.
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May 3, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Your Cigarette Burnt the Savannah Grass
Come
Listen to a boiling pot
torch its heart and tell me
What do you hear?
the sun sent down sowers of it
that burnt to cinder your eddying conscience
the earth at the touch of your fingers
cracked
Colour melts at your stare
Orange white blurred and all
are the same to you
Your cigarette burnt the savannah grass
The scorpion bit me and I cried.
Charles Owuor
i) Identify and illustrated any three appeals the persona puts across to his adversary (3 marks)
ii) What is the subject matter of this poem? (3 marks)
iii) Identify and explain any three aspects of style and explain their functions. (6 marks)
iv) Explain the meaning of the following lines. (4 marks)
(a) ‘Come
Listen to a boiling pot’
(b) ‘ the sun sent down showers of it that burnt to cinder your eddying conscience!
(v) What is the mood of the poem? (2 marks)
(vi) What is the persona’s attitude towards his adversary? (2 marks)
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May 3, 2019
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Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)
A TAX DRIVER ON DEATH BED. (By Timothy Wangusa
When with prophetic eye I peer in to the future
I see that I shall perish upon this road
Driving men that I do not know
This metallic monster that I now dictate,
This docile elaborate horse,
That in silence seems to simmer and strain
Shall surely revolt some tempting day.
For any man’s journey,
Nor for proprietors gain
Nor yet for the love of my own.
Not for these do I attempt the forbidden limits.
For those deft the traffic - man and the cold cell,
Risking everything for the little little more.
They shall say, I know, who pick up my bones
‘Poor chap, another victim to the ruthless machine”
concealing my blood under the metal.
Questions.
a) What is this poem about? (3 marks)
b) What is the attitude of the persona toward his fate? (2 marks)
c) With illustration identify the persona in the poem. (2 marks)
d) What is the irony in the poem? (2 marks)
e) With illustrations identify and comment on any other two stylistic devices used in the poem. (6 marks)
f) Comment on the following line.
‘poor chap, another victim to the ruthless machine? (2 marks)
) How will the persona’s death come about? (2 marks)
h) Give the poem another title. (1 mark)
Thus u shall die: not that I care
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May 3, 2019
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Questions
(a) Briefly explain what the poem is talking about. (3 mks)
(b) What is the attitude of the persona to the warlord? Elaborate your answer. (2 mks)
Explain the relevance of having separated words for stanza one, three, five and seven. (3 mks)
(c) Explain the irony in the poem. (3 mks)
(d) What is the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem?
(i) The trumpets herald you with regal glory.
Epaulettes glisten and medals gleam. (2 mks)
(ii) The prize presented on some stolen silver.
A maggot riddled remnant of a once serene world. (2 mks)
(e) Apart from irony, which other stylistic device has been used in the poem? (2 mks)
(f) Identify one thematic concern of the poem. (3 mks)
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May 3, 2019
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Describe an escarpment.
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May 3, 2019
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If 2/3 is added to the numerator of a certain fraction the fraction will be increased by 1/21 and if 1/2 is deducted
from its denominator that fraction becomes 2/9. Find the reciprocal of the fraction.
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May 3, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions below. (20 marks)
Theme for English B.
Questions.
a) Who is the speaker in the poem? Illustrate your answer. 2 mks
b) Identify two themes in the poem. Explain. 4 mks
c) Describe the mood of the poem? What details contribute or help establish that mood? 2 mks
d) What point does the speaker seek to make by listing the things that he or she likes? 2mks
e) What is the tone of the poem? Explain 2 mks
f) Identify the use of personification in the poem. 2 mks
g) In what ways is the speaker and the addressee similar and different? 2 mks
h) Describe the relationship between the persona and the addressee 2 mks
i) i) 'I wonder if it is that simple.' Rewrite as a yes/no question.
ii) Rewrite the following beginning with: neither....
You don’t want to be part of me. Nor do I often want to be part of you l mk
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May 3, 2019
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Describe conical hills.
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May 3, 2019
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The Gourd of Friendship.
Where is the curiosity we've lost in discovery?
Where is the discovery we've lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we've lost in communication?
Where is the communication we've lost in mass media?
And where is the community we've lost in all these?
Where is the message we've lost in the medium?
It is easy to go to the moon:
There, there are no people.
It is easier to count the stars:
They will not complain.
But the road to your neighbour's heart - who has surveyed it?
The formula to your brother's head - Who has devised it?
The gourd that doesn't spill friendship - In whose garden has it ever grown?
You never know despair Until you've lost hope;
You never know your aspiration Until you've seen others disillusionment.
Peace resides in the hearts of men.
Not in conference tables and delegates signatures.
True friendship never dies - It grows stronger the more it is used.
By Richard Ntiru
1. Explain the meaning of the poem (3 marks)
2. Discuss the use of the rhetorical questions in the poem. (3 marks)
3. Describe the tone of this poem (3 marks)
4. Identify and explain two other stylistic devices (apart from the rhetorical questions) (4 marks)
5. Explain the meaning of these lines. (4 marks)
i) 'where is the curiosity we have lost in discovery'.
ii) 'But the road to your neighbour's heart - who has surveyed it?' ( marks)
6. What does the persona think about relationships? (2 marks)
7. Explain the appropriateness of the title. (1 mark)
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May 3, 2019
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The position of two towns A and B on earth surface are (360N, 490E) and (360N, 1310W) respectively.Take R = 6370
a) Find the difference in longitude between the town A and B.
b) Calculate the distance between A and B along the latitude in
i) nautical miles
ii) kilometres
c) i) Another town C is 840km East of town B and on the same latitude as town A and B . Find the position of town C.
ii) If the local time in B is 7.30 a.m, find the local time in C.
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May 3, 2019
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DEATH OF MY FATHER
His sunken cheeks, his inward-looking eyes,
The sarcastic, scornful smile on his lips
The unkempt, matted, grey hair,
The hard, coarse sand-paper hands,
Spoke eloquently of the lifehe had lived.
But I did not mourn for him.
The hammer, the saw and the plane,
These were his tools and his damnation,
His sweat was his ointment and his perfume.
He fashioned dining tables, chairs, wardrobes,
And all the wooden loves of colonial life.
No, I did not mourn for him.
He built colonial mansions,
Huge,unwieldy,arrogant constructions;
But he squatted in a sickly mud-house,
With his children huddled stuntedly,
Under the bed-bug bed he shared with Mother.
I could not mourn for him.
I had already inherited
His premature old-age look,
I had imbibed his frustration;
But his dreams of freedom and happiness
Had become my song, my love.
So, I could not mourn for him.
No, I did not shed any tears;
My father’s dead life still lives in me,
He lives in my son, my father,
I am my father and my son.
I will awaken his sleepy hopes and yearnings,
But I will not mourn for him,
I will not mourn for me.
a) Identify the persona. (2 marks)
b) What is the poem talking about? (3 marks)
c) Comment on the alliteration that is used in the poem? (2 marks)
d) Apart from alliteration, identify and explain any other two aspects of style that the poet has used. (4 marks)
e) What reason does the persona give for not mourning his father’s death? ( 3 marks)
f) What is the father’s profession from the poem? ( 1 mark)
g) Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem: ( 3 marks)
i) The hard, coarse sand-paper hands,
Spoke eloquently of the life he had lived.
ii) His premature old-age look,
iii) I will awaken his sleepy hopes and yearnings,
h) What is the attitude of the persona towards his father’s life? ( 2 marks
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a) What is the poem about? (3 marks)
b) Identify three senses that the poem appeals to. (3 Marks
c) What is the main theme of this poem? (2 Marks)
d) What is the attitude of the persona towards the girls mentioned in the poem? (2 Marks)
e) Identify three poetic devices used in the poem. (6 marks)
f) What are the achievements of the persona on this night? (2 marks)
g) Explain the meaning of:
i) …… a miss (who was brown and black). (1 Marks)
ii) Twist the music out of hunger. (1 Marks)
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May 3, 2019
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Describe concave slopes.
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May 3, 2019
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The first, third and sixth terms of an arithmetic progression (AP) correspond to the first three consecutive terms of a
geometric progression (GP). The first term of each progression is 16, common difference of AP and d and common
ratio of the GP is r.
a) i) Write two equations involving d and r.
ii) Find the values of d and r.
b) Find the sum of the first 20 terms in the
i) Arithmetic progression (AP).
ii) Geometric progression (GP)
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Questions.
a) What is the poem about? (4 marks)
b) Identify and illustrate two features of style used in the poem. (4 marks)
c) What does the fifth stanza suggest about the work done by 'he'? (2 marks)
d) What basic requirements does the 'he' in the poem lack? (3 marks)
e) Why do you think the 'he' dies 'gratefully'? (1 mark)
f) Describe two themes brought out in the poem. (4 marks)
g) Explain the meaning of 'Old age comes early' (1 marks)
h) Supply a word that means the same as hunger as used in the poem. (1 mark
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May 3, 2019
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Describe uneven slopes.
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May 3, 2019
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Questions.
a) Who is the persona in the poem? (2 marks)
b) Explain what the poem is about. (3 marks)
c) What is achieved by repetition of 'We have seen them'? (2 marks)
d) Identify and explain two thematic concerns of the poet. (4 marks)
e) Why are the 'new Africans' said to have anxious faces? (2 marks)
f) Explain the meaning of the expression;
figures hardly human
desperately dying to live. (2 marks)
g) How does the persona portray the rich? (2 marks)
h) Describe the tone in the poem. (3 marks)
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May 3, 2019
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Describe even slopes.
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May 3, 2019