THE G9 JOINT EXAMINATION

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

121/2 – MATHEMATICS (ALT A) – Paper 2
Exam Date;
JUNE/2025

TERM TWO JUNE 2025 – 2 12 Hours

Name………………..……….……….……….. School……….……….……Adm No…………….

Candidate’s Signature…............................Date ………..........................Class………………..

Instructions to candidates
(i) Write your name, Adm number and admission number in the space provided above.
(ii) Sign, write the date of examination and class in the spaces provided above.
(iii) This paper consists of two sections: Section I and Section II.
(iv) Answer all the questions in Section I and only five questions from Section II.
(v) Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the
spaces provided below each question.
(vi) Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
(vii) Non – programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC Mathematical Tables may
be used, except where stated otherwise.
(viii) This paper consists of 15 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to
ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
(ix) Candidates should answer questions in english.

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 in the spaces provided.
1. Paint manufacturing company mixes green paint with red paint in the ratio 3:2 to make a brown paint. 10
litres of green paint costs Kshs.1 200 and 10 litres of red paint costs Kshs.1 800. The company sells the
brown paint at a profit of 20% after allowing the customer a discount of 10% on the marked price.

Calculate the marked price per kilogram. (4 marks)

6  24 tan 60
2. Express in surd form and hence simplify leaving your answer in the form a  b c where a,
sin 600
b and c are integers. (3 marks)

m
3. Make n the subject of the formula; R    mc  . (3 marks)
n 1
2

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4. The figure below shows a graph of the curve y  9 x  x 2 and a straight line y  x . Find the exact area of
the shaded region. (3 marks)

5. Use completing square method to solve the equation; 12 x 2  11x  5  0 (3 marks)

6. The deviation from the mean of 8 scores are given as 2, 3, 2, 0,  1, d ,  5 and  1 . Find d hence
determine the standard deviation of the scores correct to 2 decimal places. (4 marks)

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7. The graph below represents a wave whose equation is y  Psin nx  h .

Determine the values of P, n and h. (3 marks)

8. A triangle ABC is such that AB = 8 cm, BC = 5.3 cm and angle ABC = 52.5 . Using a ruler and a pair of
compasses only, construct the triangle ABC hence shade the region inside the triangle that is at least 4 cm
from C but nearer to AC than to BC. (4 marks)

1
log 8  log
9. Solve the logarithmic expression; 2 (2 marks)
log16

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10. Given that OA  3i  4 j  k and OB  9i  5 j  k and that R divides AB externally in the ratio 4:1,
determine the coordinates of R. (3 marks)

6
 1 
11. Expand  3x  2  up to the term independent of x hence estimate the value of  5.75  . (3 marks)
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 x 

12. Triangle QR S with vertices at Q  2,1 , R   9,1 and S 11,8  is the image of triangle QRS under
 2 3
transformation matrix   . Find the area of triangle QRS. (3 marks)
 5 4

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13. The top of a table is a regular octagon of sides measuring 25.0 cm each. Find the percentage error in
calculating the perimeter of the table. (3 marks)

14. A trader bought a van at Ksh 6 000 000 in January 2018. The value of the car depreciated by 2% every 4
months. Determine, correct to the nearest Ksh 100, the value of the car in December 2020. (3 marks)

15. A hanging lamp is supported by three chains of equal length, fixed to points A, B, C in the ceiling which
form an equilateral triangle of side 16 cm, and the lower ends are connected at a point 20 cm below the
ceiling. Calculate:
(a) The length of each chain (1 mark)

(b) The angle which each chain makes with the ceiling. (2 marks)

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16. In an experiment involving two variables, time (t) hours and the height (h) cm, the following results were
obtained
Time  t  hours 0 0.7 1.5 2.2 2.9 3.4 3.9
Height  h  cm 80 66 50 38 22 12 2
(a) On the grid provided below, plot a graph of height  h  against time  t  . (1 mark)

(b) Use the plotted points to draw a line of best fit for the data and hence determine the rate of change of
height with respect to time. (2 marks)

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SECTION II (50 Marks)

Answer any five questions from this section in the spaces provided.

17. The table below shows Income tax rates for a certain year
Monthly Income in Kenyan Shillings Tax rate in each shilling
Up to 15180 10%
15181  24700 15%
24701  34520 20%
34521  44720 25%
Above 44720 30%
In July of that year, an employee whose total taxable allowances is Kshs.15 220 paid a net tax of
Kshs.4550.
He was also entitled to the following tax reliefs:
 Monthly personal relief Ksh.1280
 Monthly Insurance relief at the rate of 15% of the premium paid.
(a) Given that he pays monthly premium of Kshs.3000, calculate the employee’s monthly
(i) gross tax; (2 marks)

(ii) taxable income. (5 marks)

(b) The employee also pays 2.75% of his basic salary towards SHIF and Ksh.360 towards NSSF.
Calculate his net salary. (3 marks)

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18. A rectangle ABCD has vertices A  2, 0  , B  4, 0  , C  4, 4  and D  2, 4  . On the grid provided;

(a) (i) Draw rectangle ABCD, its image ABCD of under a stretch transformation with the line
x  2 as the invariant and point B  4, 0  is mapped onto point B  6, 0  . (3 marks)

(ii) Draw the image ABCD of ABCD under an enlargement, scale factor of – 2, centre
origin. (2 marks)
(iii) ABCD is the image of ABCD under the reflection in the line y  0. Draw the
image ABCD and states its coordinates. (2 marks)

(b) Determine a single transformation matrix that would map ABCD onto ABCD. (3 marks)

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19. A certain sequence of numbers is formed by adding corresponding values of an AP and GP. The common
ration of the GP is 3 and the first three terms of the sequence are 12, 26 and 64. If a is the first term of the
AP with a common difference of d and x is the first term of GP, find;
(a) the first term of the AP and GP; (4 marks)

(b) The common difference of the AP (1 mark)

(c) Calculate the ninth term of the sequence (2 marks)

(d) The sum of the first 10 terms of the sequence. (3 marks)

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20. The table below shows marks obtained by 40 students in a mathematics test.
Marks 31  35 36  40 41  45 46  50 51  55 56  60
Number of students 3 4 10 12 8 3
(a) On the grid provided draw a cumulative frequency curve to represent the data (4 marks)

(b) Use the graph above to estimate

(i) The range of marks scored by the middle 80% of the students. (2 marks)

(ii) The quartile deviation. (2 marks)

(iii) The pass mark if 40% of the students passed the test. (2 marks)

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21. In a carton there are 8 red pens, 5 blue pens and 2 green pens. Two pens are picked at random from the
carton without replacement.
(a) Draw a probability tree diagram to represent the information. (2 marks)

(b) Using the tree diagram, find the probability that,

(i) The first pen picked is red (1 mark)

(ii) The first pen picked is blue or green (2 marks)

(iii) The two pens picked are both blue (2 marks)

(iv) At least one of the two pens picked is green (3 marks)

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22. Two towns P and Q both lie on the same latitude in the Northern hemisphere. P lies 53ºW while Q lies in
the 127ºE meridian.

a) Given that the distance between P and Q is 5400nm along a circle of latitude, find the latitude of
the two towns and hence the position of town Q. (4 marks)

b) Another town R lies 45º North of the Equator and on the same longitude as town Q. Find the
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shortest distance between P and R to the nearest km.(  = , Radius of the Earth R=6370)
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(3marks)

c) A ship sails due West from town Q on Sunday at 8.30am towards P. The speed of the ship is 30
knots. Find the local time and day when it finally docks in town P. (3 marks)

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23. The figure below shows a circle centre O which passes through the points A, B, C, D and E. BF is tangent
to the circle at B.

(a) Giving reasons, find the size of angle;

(i) ACB ; (2 marks)

(ii) ACF; (2 marks)

(iii) ECD . (2 marks)

(b) Given that, AB = 6 cm, find the area of the cirle. (4 marks)

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24. A draper is required to supply two types of shirts: type A and type B. The total number of shirts must not
be more than 400. He has to supply more of type A than of type B. However the number of type A shirts
must not be more than 300 and the number of type B shirts must not be less than 80.

Let x be the number of type A shirts and y the number of type B shirts

(a) Write down in terms of x and y all the linear inequalities representing the information above.
(4 marks)

(b) On the grid provided, draw the inequalities and shade the unwanted regions. (4 marks)

(c) The draper makes a profit of Ksh.180 on shirts of type A and Kshs.150 on type B t-shirts. Find the
number of items he should buy give maximum profit. (3 marks)

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