HAPPYLAND EDEN SCHOOL
GRADE 9 MATHEMATICS
TERM TWO OPENER EXAMS
Name…………………………………………………………
INSTRUCTIONS
a) Write your name, school, stream and date in the spaces provided above.
b) Answer all questions in this booklet.
c) All answers must be given as per the guidelines of the questions.
d) All answers must be written in this booklet.
ASSESSMENT RUBRIC
RANGE (%) LEVEL
80 - 100 Exceeding expectation
60 - 79 Meeting expectation
40 - 59 Approaching expectation
0 - 39 Below expectation
LEARNER’S SCORE
Out of 50
Score
This paper consists of 8 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to confirm
that all pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
1. Express the number below in words. (1 mark)
10,897,801,555
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2. Round off to the nearest ten thousand. (1 mark)
5,890,123
3. For the number below, state the place value and the total value of the underlined digit. (2 marks)
98,374,803,041
4. In Gahumbwa Junior School, there are 156 boys and 199 girls. If 31 students transferred out at the start of the
year, how many students remained in the school? (2 marks)
5. A mother divides a number of mangoes among her five daughters, giving each daughter 6 mangoes. If three
mangoes are left, how many mangoes did she originally have? (2 marks)
6. Albert had 8910 bags of maize, each weighing 90 kg. She sold 5160 of them.
a) How many kilograms of beans does she still have? (2 marks)
b) After adding 468 more bags of beans, how many bags does she now have? (1 mark)
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7. Three school bells ring at intervals of 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 60 minutes. If they all ring together at 8:00
am, at what time will they next ring together? (2 marks)
8. Solve the following expression. (3 marks)
½ of {³/₅ + ¹/₄(⁷/₃ - ³/₇ of 1½ ÷ 5)}
9. The greatest common divisor (GCD) of three numbers is 30, and their least common multiple (LCM) is 900. If
two of the numbers are 60 and 150, what are the possible values of the third number? (3 marks)
10. Kyallo measured the temperature inside a deep freezer and found it to be 3°C, while the room temperature was
24°C. What was the difference in temperature between the room and the freezer? (2 marks)
11. Three boys shared a certain sum of money. The youngest received ¹/₁₂ of it, the next received ¹/, and the eldest
received the remainder.
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a) What fraction of the total money did the eldest receive? (1 mark)
b) If the eldest received Sh. 330, what was the original amount of money? (2 marks)
12. Express 0.35 as a fraction. (1 mark)
13. Simplify. (2 marks)
3p + 6n - 2(p - 10p)
14. A father is three times as old as his son. In five years, the sum of their ages will be 58 years. What are their
current ages? (2 marks)
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15. A trader buys a bag of maize and sells it at a profit of Sh. 250. If the buying price was Sh. y, write an
expression for the percentage profit in terms of y. (2 marks)
16. After spending ⁵/₆ of his December salary on school fees, Wafula was left with Sh. 3500. How much was his
salary for the month? (2 marks)
17. Solve the following simultaneous equation using elimination method. (3 marks)
2x + y = 5
x–y=1
18. The rectangle below has a length that is 7 cm longer than its width, and a perimeter of 120 cm.
a) What is the width of the rectangle? (2 marks)
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b) What is the area of the rectangle? (2 marks)
c) If the cost of material used to make the rectangle is Sh. 30 per square centimeter (cm²), how much will
the material for the entire rectangle cost? (2 marks)
d) Two similar triangles are created from the rectangle. Calculate the length of the hypotenuse of the
triangles? (2 marks)
19. Determine if the following numbers are divisible by 3.
a) 3457 (1 mark)
b) 555 (1 mark)
c) 634,578 (1 mark)
20. Calculate the surface area of the figure below. (3 marks)
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