THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION

041 BASIC MATHEMATICS

(For Both School and Private Candidates)

TIME:· 3 Hours Monday morning 0811012007

Instructions

I. This paper consists of sections A and B.

2. Answer all questions in sections A and four (4) questions from section B.

3. All necessary working and answers for each question done must be shown
clearly.

4. Mathematical tables or slides rules may be used unless otherwise stated.

5. Electronic calculators are not allowed in the examination room.

6. You are advised. to spend not more than ·2 hours on section A and the
remaining time on section B.

7. �[Link] are not allowed in the examination room.

8. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer booklet(s).

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9. Use n = and Radius of Earth = 6370 km wherever necessary.
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 SECTION A (60 marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

l. (a) Given x = 4.5 x 10-

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and z = 7.2 x 105, find y in standard form if
z = xy. (2 marks)

(b) Express 2 135 3 as a fraction. (2 marks)

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(c) Evaluate + 0.2 8 + 1-
2s 25
1 0.32
3-
5 0.15

Give your answer in fraction form. (2 marks)

2. (a) There. are 60 people at a meeting. 35 are businesspersons, 32 are employees

and 15 are both businesspersons and employees.

(i) How many are businesspersons or employees?

(ii) How many are neither businesspersons nor employees? (3 marks)

(b) If n ( A nB') = 8, n (Bn A') = 5 and n (AU B) = 20.

(i) Display the information in a Venn diagram,

(ii) Give the values of n( A ) and n (B). (3 marks)

3. (a) Let A be the acute angle of a right angled triangle ABC such that B = 90°
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and Cos C Find the value of Sin A . (2 matks)
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(b) If a = i + 2j, b = i 2j and c = 5i 14j.

Find the values of scalars p and q such that p� + 2q Q = c.

(4 marks)

4. (a) Use common logarithmic tables to find the value of

2.055 X 20.35 X 6.325
(4 marks)
100.5 X 0.045

(b) Solve for x if �3x + 2 17 = 8. (2 marks)

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5. (a) Prove that the opposite angles of any quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are
supplementary. (2 marks)

(b) In figure 1 below, 0 is the centre of the circle, AOB 120° and

COB = 15°.

Fig. 1

Find the value of x. (2 marks)

(c)

2cm

4cm 0

Fig. 2

For a tank given in the figure 2 above, calculate the angle between OF and
the base ABCO. (2 marks)

6. (a) . The first four terms of an AP are 2, (a- b), (2a + b + 7) and (a- 3b)
respectively where a and b are constants.

(i) Find the values of the constants a and b.

(ii) The sum of the first I 0 terms. (4Y2 marks)

(b) For how long shouldTshs. 1 ,200,000/= be invested at simple interest rate of
5% to get an interest ofTshs. 180,000/=? (lYz marks)

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7. (a) Find the equation of a straight line that is parallel to the line 3x + 4y = 1

and cuts the x - axis where x = - 1.

Express the answer in the form ax + by + c = 0 where a, b and c are

constants. (2Yz marks)
(b) Find the equation of the perpendicular bisector of the line joining the points
A (3, - 1) and B ( -5, 2), in the form y = mx + c where m and c are
constants. (3Yz marks)

8. (a) A cylindrical solid of radius 7 em and height 25 em is cut equally from the
top to bottom resulting into equal half solids (see figure 3). Find the total
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surface area of one half solid. 1t = 7 may be used.

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Fig. 3 (4 marks)

(b) What is the area of a regular 45 sides polygon inscribed in a circle of radius 6
em? (2 marks)
9. (a ) Mary received a certain amount of money from her father to go to school.
She spent one third in her journey to school. At school she paid two thirds of
the remaining amount as school fees and remained with 24,000/= as her .
pocket money. Showing the procedure; calculate the. total ah}\,unt of money
she received from her father. (4 marks) .

(b) If f(x) = x4· + kx2 + 4x + 4 has a remainder 16 when divided by x- 2.

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Find the value of k. (2 marks)

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The graph in figure 4 represents the journey made by a car between two-sets
of traffic lights. How far is it between the traffic lights? (3marks)

(b) Solve the simultaneous equations

(3 marks)

SECTION B (40 marks)

Answer four (4) questions from this section.

II. A person requites IS and I4 units of chemical A and B respectively for his garden.
A liquid product contains 5 and 2 units of A and B respectively, per jar; a dry
product con�ains ·I and 4 units of A and B respectively, per carton. If the liquid
product costs Tshs 3000/= per jar and the dry product costs Tshs. 2000/= per
carton, how many of each should a persGn purchase to minimize the cost and meet ·

the requirements? (10marks)

I2. • The frequency distribution of the length of a sample of I00 nails, measured to the
nearest mm is shown below.

(a) How many nails have length les� th�n 5.I ..5 mm? (1mark)

(b) · Calculate the mean length. (4marks �

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 (c) Draw a histogram and use it to estimate the modal length. (4 marks)
(d) State the modal class. (1 mark)

13. (a) The sides of a rectangular plot PQRS in metres are such that PQ = 4x + 3,
- - -

QR = 3x + I, RS = x + 6y and PS = 4x - y. Find the values of x

and y and hence find the area of the plot in metres. (4 marks)

(b) Find the area of the curved surface of a cone whose base radius is 3 em and
whose height is 4 em. (3 marks)

(c) . Two places P,Q both on the parallel of latitude 26°N differ in latitude by 40°.
Find the distance between them along their parallel of latitude. (3 marks)

14. (a) Given that A

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1 2
. Find A
2
+ SA + 61 where I is he
-1 4
identity matrix. (3 marks)

(b) A I inear transformation T has matrix

1li2 -I IJ . Find
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(i) the image of point(2, 3) under T.

(ii) coordinates of the point having an image of (7, 2) under T by using

matrix method. (5 marks)

(c) Find the image of the point P(2, I)' under rotation about origin through 90°
· anticlockwise.
(2 marks)
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15. (a) (i) Draw the graphs of the functions f(x) = x - 4 and g(x) = x + 2
in the same coordinate system.

(ii) Shade the region enclosed by the graph� in(i) indicating the intercepts
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for both graphs. (7 marks)

(b) From the graphs in (a) write the coordinates of the points where f(x) = g.
(x). (2 marks)

(c) State the domain and range of f(x). (1 mark)

16. (a) Box A has 10 light bulbs of which 4 are defective and box 13 has 6 light
bulbs of which 1 is defective, if a box is selected at random and then a bulb is
randomly drawn, calculate the probability that the bulb drawn is defective.
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(b) A pair of fair dice is thrown. Find the probability that the sum is 10 or
greater if a 5 appears on the first die. (3 marks)

(c) Giventhat P(A') = i· P (B') = % and P(AnB) = �·

Find P (AUB ). (4 marks)

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