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Name three methods used to estimate the age of rocks.
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August 9, 2019
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Bag x contains 672 sweets, bag Y 504 sweets and bag Z 360 sweets, all of different types. The sweets are to be shared out among a group of students in such a way that each student gets the same number of each type.
(a) (i) Find the largest possible number of students.
(ii) What is the total number of sweets received by each student
(b) A number A leaves a reminder of 5 when divided by 29 and also a remainder of 5 when divide by 23. Find the least value of A.
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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A small field was surveyed and the measurements recorded in a surveyor’s field book as in the table below.
(i) Using a scale of 1cm to 10cm make an accurate drawing of the map of the field.
(ii) Find the area of the field.
(iii) Assuming that the baseline in (a) runs in a northern direction give the position of D relative to A using bearing and distance.
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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Two circles of radius 7cm each with centres x and y. The circles touch each other at point Q. Given that 0 and lines AB, XQY and DC are parallel. Calculate the area of
(a) Minor sector
(b) The trapezium
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August 9, 2019
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Four points B, C, Q and D lie on the same plane. Point B is 42km due southwest point Q. Point C is 50 km on a bearing of S60oE from Q. Point D is equidistant from B, Q and C.
(a) Using the scale: 1cm represents 10km, construct a diagram showing the positions of B, C, Q and D.
(b) Determine the
(i) Distance between B and C
(ii) Bearing of D from B
(c) Find the distance and bearing of D from C.
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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Four towns P, Q, R and S are such that Q is 168km from P on a bearing of 630. R is 288km on a bearing of S 300E from Q. S is due west of R on a bearing of 1610 from P using the scale of 1cm to represent 40km,
(a) Show the relative position of P, Q, R and S.
(b) From the diagram, find
(i) The bearing of S from Q
(ii) The bearing of P from R
(iii) The distance of PS and SR
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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(a) The diagram represents a solid frustum with base radius of 35cm and top radius of 21cm.The frustum is 22.5cm high and is made of a metal whose density is 4g/cm³.
Taking pi = 22/7, calculate
(i) The volume of the metal that makes the frustum.
(ii) The mass of the frustum.
(b) The frustum is melted in down and recast into a solid cube in the process 20% of the metal is lost. Calculate to 2d.p the length of each side of the cube.
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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A hemispherical bowl has internal and external radii 30cm and 32cm respectively.
(a) Calculate the volume of the material used in making the bowl
(b) The bowl is made of copper of density 9g/cm3. Calculate the mass of the copper used to make the bowl.
(c) Find the total cost of making the bowl if copper cost shs 450 per kg
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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Students from your school intends to carry out a field study on Lakes.
(i) State two objective for their study.
(ii) Identify two methods they will use to record the data collected.
(iii) Which human activity might they have found to be affecting the Lakes?
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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The table below represents rainfall and temperature of station Y.
(i) Calculate the mean annual range of temperature of the station.
(ii) Calculate the annual rainfall for station Y.
(iii) Calculate the average rainfall for station Y.
(c) Describe the climatic characteristics of station Y.
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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A straight line L1 has a gradient ˉ½ and passes through point P (-1, 3). Another line L2 passes through the points Q (1, -3) and R (4, 5). Find.
(a) The equation of L1.
(b) The gradient of L2.
(c) The equation of L2.
(d) The equation of a line passing through a point S (0, 5) and is perpendicular to L2.
(e) The equation of a line through R parallel to L1.
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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The figure below is a cone whose base radius is 3.5cm and slant height 7cm. The net of the cone is a sector of a circle.
(a) Find the angle subtended at the centre of the sector.
(b) Draw the net of the solid.
Date posted:
August 9, 2019
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Imagine you are a member of a discussion group state 4 things that you would do to benefit from the discussion
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August 8, 2019
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Read the story below and answer the questions that follow: -
There lived two men who were good friends. One of them was very wise and the other very foolish. One day, they argued between themselves and one said, “ I am the wise man in this country.” The other said, “No! I am the wisest.” As there was no way of measuring wisdom, the two men did not know who was wiser than the other. One day they were discussing the ill-behavior of their wives and one of them said, “If we want them to behave well we must beat them up. Women are like children, beat them up and they will behave well.” The other said, “No! If you beat your wife, she will become worse.” After arguing for a long time, they kept quiet and went home. On reaching his house, the man who was in favour of beating wives began to beat an ox-skin vigorously. When the other heard this, he thought the sound came from his friend beating his wife and he took a stick and beat his wife severely until she fell sick and later died. When the two men met later, it was now clear who between them was wiser than the other.
(i) Suppose you were narrating this story, what would you do first before narration to capture the attention of the audience?
(ii) How would you deliver the speech by the 2nd speaker? 'No, I am the wisest.'
(iii) If you are listening to this story, what would you expect the story teller to do so as to make the story interesting?
(iv) During the performance of this narrative, you notice that the audience is very attentive. What are the indicators that will show you that they are attentive?
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Addiction is an escape ........................... ...................reality, and different people will find ...............................ways to escape from the real world. They can be addicted to food, money, power, work, gambling, sex, love ............................................. even to destructive relationships. Do these belong in the same category as alcohol or drugs? And if so, does recovery from those “people addictions’’ work the same way as with alcohol and drugs?
Addicts look for substitutes, and the reason ..................................this is always the same: to escape, to close one eye and not to .................................. the facts. By becoming fat, the overeater insulates ................................................from the world around. It is better to be rejected for the way they look, than for who they are as a ............................................ Thus, being fat becomes a way to avoid the risk of intimacy. There are people who are addicted to work. They will go home.........................., just to avoid interaction with the family.
Workaholism is a dysfunctional attempt to earn self-esteem by being productive. The................................................ may fear intimacy, and take refuge in work as a way of avoiding meaningful interaction with others. Addiction, in every form is a means of survival. Alcoholism is not a slow form of suicide –at least, not as......................................as the alcoholic is concerned. Alcoholics think of drinks as their best-perhaps their only-means of survival.
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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When you are in a group discussion, how would you know that it is your turn to speak.
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Read the oral material below then answer the questions that follow.
A chick that will grow into a cock is known at the time of hatching.
i) identify the oral material above.
ii) Describe a situation in which this oral material would apply.
iii) Give two characteristics of the oral material identified in 1 above.
iv) Which target group is appropriate for the above oral material?
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
When the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many things I sought.
And with old woes new wails my dear time’s waste,
Then can drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death dareless night
And weep afresh love’s long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expansive of many a vanished sight.
The can I grieve at grievances fore gone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell O’er,
The sad account of fore-bemoaned man
Which I now pay as not paid before,
But if the while I THINK ON THEE DEAR FRIEND
All loses are restored and sorrow end.
QUESTIONS
i) Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem.
ii) Identify three pairs of rhyming words in this poem.
iii) Apart from rhyme, how else has rhythm been achieved
iv) Which words would you stress in the first line. Explain.
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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A teacher of English was in class during a reading session. She realized that the students had poor reading habits. Mention three of these habits she might have observed.
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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The county Education secretary has been invited into your school to give a speech. As he speaks, you find it necessary to interrupt him before he is done with his speech.
i) Give three circumstances that may force you to interrupt him.
ii) State two expressions of polite interruption.
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Identify the silent letters in the following words.
a) Climb __________________________________
b) Marijuana _______________________________
c) Bough __________________________________
d) Lesson _________________________________
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Your family is organizing for a home coming ceremony for your brother who was elected as the area MCA. The area MP has been invited as the guest of honour together with four other prominent guests. Your mother has assigned you the responsibility of preparing the meal for the guests.
i) Prepare a recipe for the dish.
ii) Write a thank you note that you would send to the area MP
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Indicate the intonation pattern in the following text.
i) One, two, three, four and five.
ii) The teacher called the students, “Jane, John, and Mary,” stand up.
iii) Who is the owner of the book?
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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You know a student who has been peddling drugs in your school. The student can hurt anyone who leaks this information. Write an email to the Principal, discipline teacher and HOD Counselling directing them to the place where the student gets the drugs. This information is confidential and should be treated as such. So, none of the recipients should know you sent that email to the other. Also briefly describe the peddler so that it will be easy for the teachers to identify him.
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Pick out the words with long vowel sounds.
Coat
Card
More
Look
Should
Still
Further
Steal
Moan
Showed
Fool
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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You are the secretary of Mambo Leo Youth Empowerment Group which has six members. The group is holding the second meeting of the year in which the following agenda will be discussed.
-Income generating project
-Elections
-Chairperson’s report
Write an email notifying members about the meeting
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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Read the following telephone conversation and then answer the questions that follow.
Secretary: (phone rings) Hello, Masomo secondary school How may I help you?
Caller: I want to speak to my mother
Secretary: May I know who your mother is please?
Caller: (Impatient and irritated) I have said I want to speak to my mother.
Secretary: Excuse me. I’m sorry I don’t know who your mother is. Could you please tell me her name?
Caller: (shouting) You have been working in that institution for the last ten years and you don’t know Mrs.Marita?
Secretary: (Politely) Oh! Mrs. Marita? She has just stepped out shortly. May I take a message for her please?
Caller: (Bangs the receiver)
(i) Identify any three instances that show the caller’s lack of telephone etiquette.
(ii) How can you tell that the secretary observes professional conversational skill in the above telephone conversation?
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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In the year 2001, the price of a sofa set in a shop was Kshs. 12000,
(a) Calculate the amount of money received from the sale of 240 sofa sets that year
(b) (i) In the year 2002, the price of each sofa set increased by 25% while the number of sets sold decreased by 10%. Calculate the percentage increase in the amount received from the sales
(ii) If at the end of year 2002 the price of each sofa set changed in the ratio 16:15. Calculate the price of each sofa set in the year 2003
(c) The number of sofa sets sold in the year 2003 was P% less than the number of sofa sets sold in the year 2001. Calculate the value of P given that the amount received from sale in the two years were equal
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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You have been asked to prepare and present an oral report on the consequences of drug abuse.
(i) How would you prepare for the presentation
(ii) Explain how you would make use of verbal skills to make your presentation effective
Date posted:
August 8, 2019
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A tangent from an external point A(7, 5) meets a circle centre O whose equation is x2 + 4x + y2 – 5 = 0 at point T, find the length of the tangent AT
Date posted:
August 8, 2019