DEPARTMENT OF MATHS JSS
GROUP 2. MATHEMATICS
GROUP LEADER: PURITY GLORY.
GROUP MEMBERS: ROSELYNE, LAMEX, ERICK, BARRACK
1. Purity wrote the numbers from 10 to 20 on number cards and asked Natasha to select a card at
random. Determine the probability that the number of the card picked is:
(a) a prime number;
(b) an even number.
2. The number of learners selected to represent their school in various ball games was recorded as
shown in the table below. Represent the number of learners selected for each game on a pie chart.
GAME Football Netball Volleyball Handball Basketball
NO. OF 18 12 10 9 11
LEARNERS
3. A carpenter designed a coffee table with a triangular table top. A model of the table top was a
triangle NPQ such that PQ = 7 cm, NQ = 9 cm. and angle NPQ = 60°.
(a) Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct triangle NPQ.
(b) (i) Measure the size of angle PQN.
(ii) Measure the length PN.
4. Mitchel Joy gets a commission of 2% for every car sold. In a certain month, he sold 6 cars. The
selling price of each car was sh. 890 000. Calculate the commission Mitchel Joy earned that
month.
5. A half marathon race is 21 km long. Samuel ran the race in 1 hour 40 minutes. Determine
Samuel’s speed in m/s.
6. A cylindrical tank of diameter 5.6 m contains water to a height of 2.5 m. The water was
transferred to a rectangular tank of length 5.5 m and width 4 m. What was the height of the
water in the rectangular tank?
7. Joseh took part in a 10000 m race. After running a distance of 72.8 Hectometre(Hm), he fell and
could not complete the race. (a) What distance, in metres, had he covered before he fell? (b)
What distance, in Decametres, was remaining for Joan to complete the race?
8. A trader sells g goats every week. The number of goats he sells each week is more than 8 but
less than or equal to 15. Write a compound inequality to represent this information.
9. Elizabeth bought 3 packets of milk and 4 loaves of bread for sh 570 from a shop. Praise bought 5
packets of milk and a loaf of bread for sh 440 from the same shop. Determine the cost of a loaf
of bread and the cost of a packet of milk.
10. Rosalia shared some money among her 3 children, Mohammed, Fatuma and Hussein.
Mohammed received 3 times the amount of money that Fatuma received. Hussein received sh
7000 more than Fatuma. If Fatuma received sh x, write a simplified expression for the total
amount of money that Rosalia shared.
11. Erick employed 4 men to weed his farm in 18 days. Determine the number of men Erick would
need to weed the farm in 8 days.
12. A wall is in the shape of a square. Each side of the wall is 15 metres. The wall is covered with
square tiles each 50 cm long. Determine the number of tiles used.
DEPARTMENT OF MATHS JSS
13. A cooperative society received 18357248 cartons of avocados from farmers in one season. How
many times is the total value of digit 3 greater than the total value of digit 2 in the number?
14. A fisherman on a boat saw a fish at a depth of 5 m. He noticed a bird vertically above the fish at
a height of 12 m from the water surface. Use a number line to determine the distance between
the fish and the bird.
15. A school bought some rice to be used for 6 days. On the first day, the school used 6 1 of the rice.
On the second day, 5 1 of the remaining rice was used. The rest of the rice was shared equally
for the last 4 days. On the last day the school used 37.5 kg. Determine: (a) the fraction of rice
that was shared equally for the last 4 days;
(b) the mass of rice that the school had bough
16. A painter placed a 3.2m long ladder at an angle of 30cwith a vertical wall. What was the distance
from the bottom of the ladder from to the foot of the wall?
17. A surveyor wrote the length of a piece of land as 70 m. She represented the length as 2.8cm on a
map. What was the scale used on the map?
18. Mitchel Joy walked from her home to the market. She walked at a speed of 4 km/h and took 30
minutes to reach the market. On her way back, she took 40 minutes to reach home. What was Mitchel
Joy’s speed on her way back?
19. A contractor needs 30 people each working 8 hours a day to clear a road repair in one week. How
many people will the contractor hire to clear the same work if they are to work if they are to work for 6
hours for one week?
20. A school enrolment in Grade 1 is 80 girls and 60 boys. The same ratio of learners is maintained in
Grade 6. Given that the number of girls in Grade 6 is 60, determine the number of boys in Grade 6.
21. In a public rally, the number of children, women and men is in the ratio 5:6:9 respectively. If the
there are 120 women in attendance, determine the number of children and men who attended the rally.
22. Natasha has sh. 2000 to spend on sugar and maize flour. The cost of 1kg of sugar and 1kg of maize
flour is sh. 250 and sh. 200 respectively. If she bought x kg of sugar and y kg of maize flour, write an
inequality for the total cost of the items and represent the inequality graphically.
23. The city of Alexandra is on longitude 30 degrees East. Determine the longitude of a town where the
local time is 4.00 p.m. when it is 2.00 p.m. at Alexandra.
24. The external and internal radii of a hemispherical coconut shell are 8.4 cm and 8.2 cm respectively.
Calculate the volume of the material making the coconut shell [Take Pi=3.142]
25. An open water tank in form of a frustum has a square base of sides 2m and a square top of sides 3m.
If the height of the frustum is 1 m. and that of the original pyramid 6m, calculate the volume of the
frustum.
26. A chord of length 14.6 cm subtends an angle of 62.85 degrees at the centre of the circle of radius 14
cm. Calculate the area bounded by the chord and the minor arc. [Take Pi=22/7]
27. Determine the surface area of a square based pyramid of slant height 5cm and sides 6cm.
