Form Two Time: 1 hours

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
COMMON EXAMINATION JUNE 2014
MATHEMATICS
Paper 1

This paper consists of 40 multiple choice questions. You are required to circle the answer
next to the correct response.

1. 79, 72, 65, 58, ___. What is the next 8. What is the size of angle T?
pattern in the sequence?
a. 51
b. 50
c. 45
d. 43

2. What is 953.67 to the nearest whole a. 80

number? b. 100
a. 1000 c. 260
b. 963 d. 280
c. 953
d. 954 9. The area of a rectangular floor is 21.6 m. If
its width is 3 m, what is its length?
3. Which of the following tally marks a. 7.02 m
represent the number 12? b. 7.2 m
a. c. 24.6m
b. d. 64.8m
c.
d. 10. What type of angle is represented by the
letter M below?
4. What word is used to describe the most
popular item?
a. Mode
b. Score
c. Frequency a. Straight
d. Median b. Acute
c. Obtuse
5. What is the sum of five times a number x d. Reflex
and three times a number y?
a. 5x x 3y 11. What is A ?
b. 5x + 3y
c. 5x 3xy A B
d. 5 + x 3 + y
e f w x
6. Simplify the following: 6 x a x b x 4
a. 64ab g z
b. 6ab4
c. 24ab
d. 24 a + b a. {e, f, g, w, x, z}
b. { }
7. What is the meaning of the symbol ? c. {w, x, z}
a. Intersection d. {e, f, g}
b. Union
c. Empty set 12. =
d. Subset a. 12
b. 13
c. 14
d. 15
 13. What is 12% of 150?
a. 9 19. What is the size of angle M?
b. 18
c. 148
d. 162

14. Work out the mean of 29, 34, 37 and 40.

a. 35
b. 35.5
c. 40 a. 80
d. 140 b. 120
c. 180
The Column graph below shows the future d. 360
occupations of a group of students.
20. In the Diagram T, what is the part labelled
x?

Future Occupation
20

15

10

0 Diagram T
Doctor Police Coach Farmer Teacher a. Radius
15. How many more students preferred b. Diameter
teaching than being a coach? c. Chord
a. 16 d. Centre
b. 12
c. 10 21. In Diagram T the part labelled y is
d. 8 a. Radius
b. Diameter
16. Work out: 9a + 10b 5a + 2b = c. Chord
a. 4a + 12b d. Centre
b. 14a + 12b
c. 4a + 8b 22. What is the size of angle x in the triangle
d. 19ab 3ab below?

17. If x = 3 and y = - 6, what is the value of

3x 4y?
a. -15
b. -33
c. 33 a. 30
d. 15 b. 60
c. 90
18. Expand the following: 5ab4 d. 180
a. 5 x a x a x a x a x b x b x b x b
b. 5 x a x a x a x a x b
23. A box of apples weighs 1 kg. What is the
c. 5 x a x a x b x b
d. 5 x a x b x b x b x b weight of 8 such boxes?
a. 8 kg
b. 9 kg
c. 11 kg
d. 32 kg
24. If, The following refers to Questions 29 and 30.
U = {whole numbers from 1-10}
P = {prime number} and A = {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
Q = {even numbers}, B = {2, 6, 8}
Which of the following is TRUE? C = {3, 6, 9}
a. Q P
b. 4 P 29. Complete: A B =
c. Q P = {2} a. {2}
d. 3 Q b. {2, 4}
c. {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
25. What is P6 p2 ? d. {2, 6}
a. P3
b. P4 30. Complete: B C =
c. P8 a. {2, 3, 6, 8, 9}
d. P b. {6}
c. {3, 6, 9}
26. What is the size of the angle Q in the shape d. { }
below?
31. 6 + d = 24. What is the value of d?
a. 4
b. 12
c. 18
d. 30

32. When a transversal crosses two parallel

lines which angle are NOT always equal?

a. 110
b. 140
c. 220o
a. Corresponding
d. 540
b. Interior
c. Alternate
27. What is the sum of 3 and 2 ? d. Vertically opposite
a. 6
b. 5 The following refers to Questions 33 and 34.
c. 5
d. 5

28. What is the name given to the shaded

region of the circle below?

33. What is (M N) ?
a. {t}
a. Arc b. {x, y}
b. Radius c. {a, b, c, p, q, s, x, y}
c. Sector d. {p, q, s}
d. Segment
34. List the values of M.
a. {a, b, c}
b. {x, y}
c. {p, q, s}
d. {a, b, c, t}
35. Sarah ate f pancakes. Jack ate 4 less than
Sarah. How many pancakes did Jack eat?
a. f 4
b. 4 f
c. f 4
d. 4

36. What is the value of 48 6 + 2 x 4?

a. 14
b. 16
c. 24
d. 40

37. If, 9t = 54, what is the value of t?

a. 6
b. 45
c. 63
d. 486

38. Indra went to bed at 21:00 and woke up at

07:52. How long did she sleep?
a. 4 hrs 52 mins
b. 9 hrs 52 mins
c. 10 hrs 8 mins
d. 10 hr 52 mins

39. Mei and Cole went to lunch at a cafe. They

ordered a spinach salad for $4.70, a tuna
sandwich for $5.50, and 2 glasses of
lemonade for $0.85 each. The tax was
$1.20. They gave the waiter $15.00. How
much change should they have received?
a. $1.70
b. $1.90
c. $10.20
d. $13.10

40. Marvin Johns best time for 100m is 9.69

seconds. What is this to one decimal place?
a. 9.0 seconds
b. 9.6 seconds
c. 9.7 seconds
d. 10.0 seconds