FRIENDS SCHOOL KAMUSINGA
Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education
THE 2025 PRE-MOCK EXAMINATION
121/2 MATHEMATICS PAPER TWO
March, 2025 TIME: 2 Hrs 30Min
NAME: ...................................................................................... ADM NO: ............................................................
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
2. Sign and write the date of examination in the space provided above.
3. This paper consists of TWO sections. Section I and Section II.
4. Answer ALL the questions in section I and only FIVE questions from Section II.
5. All answers and working must be written on the question paper in the space provided below each
question.
6. Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces below each
question.
7. Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
8. Non-programmable silent calculators and KNEC mathematical tables may be used except where stated
otherwise.
9. This paper consists of16 printed papers.
10. 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 questions in the spaces provided.
1. Agotho has a rectangular plot that was measured to the nearest meter and found to be 80m in length and
60m in width. Determine the percentage error in its perimeter. (3 marks)
2. Determine the inverse of the matrix ( 45 −23 ). Hence find the coordinates of the point at which the two
lines 4x – 18 = –3y and 5x – 2y = 11intersect. (4 marks)
3. Solve the equation.
5 2x+1 – 3(5x + 1) + 10 = 0 (4 marks)
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4. Solve for x in the equation cos x = sin (3x – 30). Hence determine the value of tan x leaving your
answer in surd form. (3 marks)
5. In the figure below, yz is parallel to wx. Angle wzx = 50 o and angle wxm = 60o. Determine the size of
angle yzw. (2 marks)
6. Kaula has two types of coffee, costing Ksh.120 and Ksh.200 respectively. He mixed them in the ratio
6 : 5 by weight.
a) Determine to the nearest shilling the cost of one kilogramme of the mixture. (2 marks)
b) Find the percentage profit on the cost price if the mixture was sold at Ksh 250.
(give your answer in 2 d.p). (2 marks)
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7. Rationalise the denominator and simplify leaving your answer in the form √ a+b . (3 marks)
√2+2 √ 5
√5−√2
8. Use squares, square roots and reciprocals tables only to evaluate;
3 4
+ (4 marks)
√ 42.15 ( 3.152 )2
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9. Make h the subject of the formula in
p
m= (3 marks)
√ h+k 2
10. The diagram below shows an equilateral triangle ABC inscribed in a circle of radius 9cm. Calculate the
length of the sides of the triangle (2 d.p) (2 marks)
2
9 x −1
11. Simplify 2 (3 marks)
3 x +2 x−1
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12. Use the trapezium rule to estimate the area bounded by the curve y + x = 4 and the lines y = 0, x = 2
2
and x = 2 using four strips. (3 marks)
13. A circle of radius 3cm has its centre at (3, 2). Express the equation of the circle in the form
x2 + y2 + mx + ny + c = 0. Where m, n and c are constants. (3 marks)
14. Find the equation of the normal to the curve y = (x2 + 1) (x – 2) when x = 2. (4 marks)
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15. a) Expand 1− x (1 mark)
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b) Use the expansion upto x3 in (a) above to evaluate (0.98)5 correct to 4 d.p (2 marks)
16. The figure below shows a quadrilateral ABCD which is cyclic. Solve for x. (2 marks)
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SECTION II (50 MARKS)
Answer only FIVE questions from this section in the spaces provided.
17. Mr. Kobe is a civil servant who earns a monthly salary of Ksh.21200. He has a house allowance of
Ksh.12000 per month, other taxable allowances are commuter Ksh.1100, medical allowance Ksh.2000.
He is entitled to a personal relief of Ksh.1240 per month.
Using the income rates below, solve the questions that follow.
Income in Ksh. per month Rates in Ksh per sh 20
1 – 8,400 2
8401 – 18,000 3
18001 – 30,000 4
30001 – 36,000 5
36001 – 48,000 6
Above 48,000 7
Determine;
a) i) His monthly taxable income. (2 marks)
ii) Net tax (PAYEE) (5 marks)
b) In addition to the PAYEE, the following deductions were made. Ksh.250 for NHIF, Ksh.120 service
charges,he repays a loan at sh.4500 and contributes towards savings at sh.1800 every month. Calculate
his net salary per month. (3 marks)
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18. A triangle ABC has vertices A(-2, 6) B(2, 3) and C(-2, 3). Triangle A B C is the image of triangle ABC
under a reflection in the line x = -3.
a) Draw triangle ABC and its image A1B1C1 on the same axis. (2 marks)
b) Triangle A1B1C1 is mapped onto A11B11C11 under a translation vector (102). Given that A 111
(6,-6)
B111(2, -3) and C111(6, -3) are the images of A111B111C111 under another translation.
i) Draw triangle A11B11C11 (2 marks)
11 11 11
ii) Determine and describe fully the transformation that maps triangle A B C onto triangle
A111B111C111 (3 marks)
iii) Describe fully the transformation that would map triangle ABC onto triangle A111B111C111 (3 marks)
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19. a) From whole numbers 1 to 10, a number is selected at random, find the probability that, the number
selected is a prime or a multiple of 3. (2 marks)
b) A tetrahedron is thrown and a coin is tossed.
i) List down all the possible events in the probability space. (1 mark)
ii) Find the probability of getting atleast 2 and a head. (2 marks)
c) i) A bag contains 6 white marbles and some brown ones. If the probability of picking a brown
marble is 0.6, find the number of marbles in the bag. (3 marks)
ii) Two marblesare then picked, one at a time from the bag in c(i) above, with replacement.
Find the probability that the marbles picked are of different colours. (2 marks)
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20.A group of people planned to contribute equally towards buying land at a price of Shs 180,000. However
3 members of the group withdrew from the project. As a result, each of the remaining members were to
contribute KShs. 3000 more.
(a) Find the original number of members in the group. (6 Marks)
(b) How much would each person have contributed if the 3 people had not withdrawn. (2 Marks)
(c) Calculate the percentage increase in the contribution per person caused by the withdrawal.(2 Marks)
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20. ABCDEFGH is a prism where ABCD, FGHE, BCHG and ADEF are rectangles while AFGH and
DCHE are trapezia. AB = 10cm, FG = 8cm, BC = 18cm and CH = 4.5cm.
a) Calculate the length of AH. (4 marks)
b) Calculate the angle between planes ABCD and BCHG. (2 marks)
c) The angle between the plane ABCD and ABHE (2 marks)
d) The volume of the prism. (2 marks)
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21. a) Complete the table for 0o≤ x ≤ 360o for the functions y = sin x and y = sin 2 x (2 marks)
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x 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360
1 0.00 0.43 0.25 0 -0.43 -0.43 0
sin 2 x
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Sin x 0.00 0.5 1 0 -0.5 -0.87 0
b) Using a scale of 1cm represent 30 o on the x-axis and 4cm to represent 1 unit on the y-axis, draw the
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graph of y = sin 2 x and y = sin xo for 0o≤ x ≤ 360o on the same axis. (5 marks)
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c) Use your graph to find the range sin 2 x ≤ sin x (1 mark)
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d) State the period and amplitude for the curve y = sin 2 x (2 marks)
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22. The displacement s metres of a particle moving along a straight line after t seconds is given by
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s = -2t3 + t2 + 3t + 4
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a) Find its initial acceleration. (3 marks)
b) Calculate;
i) The time the particle was momentarily at rest. (3 marks)
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ii) Its displacement by the time it comes to rest momentarily. (2 marks)
c) Calculate the maximum velocity attained. (2 marks
24.A certain carpenter has been contracted by a college to supply a number of beds and doors. He has to
supply almost 100 items. He has a total of 480 man hours to do the work. In addition, the following
conditions should be met.
Beds Doors
Minimum number of items 10 20
Man hours per item 2 6
Profit per item 200 300
Taking x to represent the number of beds and y the number of doors:
.(a).Write all the inequalities to represent the above information. (4 marks)
b).Represent the inequalities on the grid provided. (4 marks)
a) Find the maximum profit that can be got from the supply. (2 marks)
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