MATHEMATICS

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025 HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT

ALL FORM 3 STUDENTS.
Answer all the questions
1. Evaluate (2 Marks)
2. Mr. Owino spends of his salary on school fees. He spendsof the remainder on food and a fifth of
what is left on transport. He saves the balance. In certain month he saved Sh. 3400. What was
his salary?

m a r k s )
3. Simplify: (3 Marks)

4. Find x if+ 1 = 28 (2 Marks)

5. The circle below whose area is 18.05cm2 circumscribes triangle ABC where AB = 6.3cm, BC =
5.7cm and AC = 4.2cm. Find the area of the shaded part. (4 Marks)

6. A salesman gets a commission of 2.4% on sales up to Sh. 100,000. He gets additional

commission of 1.5% on sales above this. Calculate the commission he gets for sales worth Sh.
280,000.(3 Marks)
7. A rectangle whose area is 96m2 is such that its length is 4metres longer than its width.
Find
( a ) I t d i m e n s i o n s ( 2
M a r k s )
(b) Its perimeter (1 Mark)
8. Give sin (90 – a) = find without using trigonometric tables the value of cos a . (2 Marks)
9. In triangle ABC below, AC = BC, AB is parallel to DE, AB = 15cm, DE = 7.5cm and BE = 6cm.

Calculate
(a) Length CE (2 Marks)
( b ) A r e a o f q u a d r i l a t e r a l A B E D . ( 2
M a r k s )
10. A measuring cylinder of base radius 5cm contains water whose level reads 6cm high. A
spherical object is immersed in the water and the new level reads 10cm. Calculate the radius of
the spherical object.
(3 Marks)
11. Using a ruler and pair of compasses only, construct triangle ABC in which AB = 6cm, BC =
8cm and angle ABC = 450. Drop a perpendicular from A to BC to meet line BC at M. Measure
A M a n d A C . ( 4
M a r k s )
12. In a book store, books packed in cartons are arranged in rows such that there are 50 cartons
in the first row, 48 cartons in the next row, 46 in the next and so on.
(a) H o w m a n y c a r t o n s w i l l t h e r e b e i n t h e 8 t h r( o2 w ?
Marks)
(b) If there are 20 rows in total, find the total number of cartons in the book (2 store.
Marks)
13. Draw the net of the solid below and calculate the total surface area of its faces. (3 Marks)
14. Town X is 20km in a bearing of 0600 from Y, and Z is 30km in the direction 1500 from Y. Using
the scale 1cm represents 5km, find by scale drawing:
(a) the bearing of Y from Z. (2 Marks)
(b) the distance of X from Z. (2 Marks )
15. Solve for x in - 18 x = 40 (3 Marks)
16. Oketch sells his car to Jane and makes a profit of 20%. Jane sells the same to Issa at Sh.180,
000, making (3 Marks)
a loss of 10%. Determine the price at which Oketch bought the car.
17. The distance between towns A and B is 360km. A minibus left town A at 8.15 a.m. and
traveled towards town B at an average speed of 90km/hr. A matatu left town B two and a third
hours later on the same day and travelled towards A at average speed of 110km/hr.
(a) ( i ) A t w h a t t i m e d i d t h e t w o v e h i c l e s m e(e4t ?
Marks)
( i i ) H o w f a r f r o m A d i d t h e t w o v e h i c l e s m e (e2t ?
Marks)
(b) A motorist started from his home at 10.30 a.m. on the same day as the matatu and
travelled at an average speed of 100km/h. He arrive at B at the same time as the minibus.
Calculate the distance from A to his house. (4 Marks)
18. A number of people agreed to contribute equally to buy books worth KSh. 1200 for a school
library. Five people pulled out and so the others agreed to contribute an extra Shs. 10 each.
Their contributions enabled them to buy books worth Shs. 200 more than they originally
expected.
(a) If the original numbers of people was x, write an expression of how much each was
originally to contribute. (1 Mark)
(b) Write down two expressions of how much each contributed after the five people pulled out.
(2 Marks)
(c) C a l c u l a t e t h e n u m b e r o f p e o p l e w h o m a d e t h e c o n t r i b(u5t i o n .
Marks)
(d) Calculate how much each contributed. (2 Marks)
19. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, draw a parallelogram ABCD, such that angle DAB
= 750. Length AB = 6.0cm and BC = [Link] point D, drop a perpendicular to meet line AB
at N.(7 Marks)
(i) Measure length DN (1 Mark)
(ii) Find the area of the p a r a l l e l o g r a m .( 2
Marks)
20. The table shows marks obtained by 100 candidates at Goseta Secondary School in Biology
examination.
Marks 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85-94
Frequen 6 14 24 14 x 10 6 4
cy

(a) Determine the value of x (2 Marks)

(b) State the modal class (1 Mark)
( c ) C a l c u l a t e t h e m e d i a n m a r k ( 2
M a r k s )
(d) Calculate the mean mark (5 Marks)
21. Use logarithm tables correct to 4 significant figures to evaluate. (3 Marks)

22. Find the equation of the perpendicular bisector of line PQ where the co-ordinates of P and Q
are P (-2, 8) and Q (4, 7). (3 Marks)
23. The surface areas of two spheres are 36cm 2 and 49cm2. If the volume of the smaller sphere is
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 20.2cm3, calculate the volume of the larger one.
(2 Marks)
24. The marked price of a shirt is Sh. 800. A customer buys the shirt after being given a discount
of 13%. The seller then realizes that he made a profit of 20% on this sale. Find how much the
seller had bought
t h e s h i r t . ( 2
M a r k s )
(4 Marks)
25. The radius of a cone increases in the ratio 4:3 while it’s height decreases in the ratio 3:4.
Determine the percentage change in(3the Marks)
volume of the cone.
26. Solve for x in the equation, Log (5x + 75) – 2 Log 3 = Log (2x – 9). (3
Marks)
27. Make x the subject of the formula ina = Hence find the value of x when a = 2 and b = 6.(4
Marks)
28. In the figure below, BT is a tangent to the circle at B. AXCT and BXD are straight lines. AX =
6cm,
CT = 8cm, BX = 4.8cm and XD = 5cm. (Figure not drawn to scale)

Find the length of

(a) XC (2 Marks)
(b) BT (2 Marks)
29. Simplify + leaving your answer in the form a + b, where a, b and c are rational numbers.
(3 Marks)
30. A quantity y varies partly as another quantity x and partly as the square of x. When x = 20, y =
45 and when x = 24, y = 60.
(a) Express y in terms of x (3 Marks)
(b) Find x when y = 75 (1 Mark)
31. Expand upto the term in. Use your expansion to estimate the value of to 3 decimal places.(4
Marks)
32. A pipe 3.0m long was cut into three pieces. The first piece and the second one were measured
as 1.3m
(3 Marks)
and 0.94m respectively. Find the limits within which the length of the third piece lies.
33. Matrix P is given by
(a) Find P-1 (2 Marks)
(b) Two institutions, Katulani High School and Nthia High School purchased beans at Sh. b per
bag and maize at Sh. m per bag. Katulani purchased 8 bags of beans and 14 bags of maize
for KSh. 47,600. Nthia purchased 10 bags of beans and 16 bags of maize for KSh. 57,400.
( i ) F o r m a m a t r i x e q u a t i o n t o r e p r e s e n t t h e i n f o r m a t i o n a( b2 o v e .
Marks)
(ii) Use matrix P-1to find the prices of one bag of each item. (3 Marks)
(c) The price of beans later went up by 5% and that of maize remained constant. Katulani
bought the same quality of beans but spent the same total of money as before on the two
items. State the new ratio of beans to maize. (3 Marks)
34. James’ earning are as follows:-
Basic salary Sh. 38,000 p.m
House allowance Sh. 14,000 p.m
Travelling allowance Sh. 8,500 p.m
Medical allowance Sh. 3,300
The table for the taxable income is as shown below.
Income tax in K£ p.a Tax in Sh. per
pound

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 1 600 2
6001 12000 3
12001 18000 4
24000
1001 30000 5
24001 36000 6
30001 42000 7
36001 48000 8
42001 9
O v e r 10
4 8 0 0 0

(a) C a l c u l a t e J a m e s ’ t a x a b l e i n c o m e i n K p(. 2a .
Marks)
(b) Calculate James’s [Link] if he is entitled to a tax relief of Sh. 18000 (4 p.a.
Marks)
(c) James is also deducted the following per month:-
NHIF Sh. 320
Pension scheme Sh. 1000
Co-operative sharesSh. 2000
Loan repayment Sh. 5000
Interest on loan Sh. 500
(i) Calculate James’ total deduction per month in KSh. (2 Marks)
(ii) Calculate his net salary per month (2 Marks)
35. Three consecutive terms of a geometric progression are , and 81 respectively.
(a) Calculate the value of x (3 Marks)
(b) Find the common ratio of the series. (1 Mark)
(c) C a l c u l a t e t h e s u m o f t h e f i r s t 4 t e r m s o f t h i s s e( r3i e s .
Marks)
(d) Given that the fifth and the seventh terms of the G.P form the first two consecutive terms of
an
(3 Marks)
arithmetic sequence, calculate the sum of the first 20 terms of the sequence.
36. A tank has two inlet taps P and Q and an outlet tap R. When empty, the tank can be filled by
tap P alone in 4hour or by tap Q alone in 3 hours. When full, the tap can be emptied in 2 hours
by tap R.
(a) The tank is initially empty. Find how long it would take to fill up the tank
(i) If tap R is closed and taps P and Q are opened at the same (2 time.
Marks)
( i i ) I f a l l t h e t h r e e t a p s a r e o p e n e d a t t h e s a m e t(i 2m e .
Marks)
(b) The tank is initially empty and the three taps are opened as follows:-
P at 8.00 a.m.
Q at 8.45 a.m
R at 9.00 a.m
( i ) F i n d t h e f r a c t i o n o f t h e t a n k t h a t w o u l d b e f i l l e d b y 9 . 0(03 a . m
Marks)
( i i ) F i n d t h e t i m e t h e t a n k w o u l d b e f u l l y f i l l e d ( 3u p
Marks)

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