- A ship leaves port M and sails on a bearing of 0500 heading towards Island L. Two navy destroyers sail from a noval base N...(Solved)
A ship leaves port M and sails on a bearing of 0500 heading towards Island L. Two navy destroyers sail from a noval base N to intercept the ship. Destroyer A sails such that it covers the shortest distance possible. Destroyer B sails on a bearing of 200 to L. If the bearing of N from M is 1000 and distance NM=300Km, Using a scale of 1cm to represent 50Km, determine
i) the positions of M,N and L.
ii) the distance traveled by destroyer A.
iii) the distance traveled by destroyer B.
iv) the bearing of N from L.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Maru Secondary School consumes 40 bags of maize and 25 bags of beans per term. Kadu Secondary School consumes 35 bags of maize and 18...(Solved)
Maru Secondary School consumes 40 bags of maize and 25 bags of beans per term. Kadu Secondary School consumes 35 bags of maize and 18 bags of beans per term. The schools purchase the grains from the same grain store. Maru pays sh.380,000 while Kadu pays sh.301,500 for the grains.
a) Write down two equations representing the cost of grains in the two schools.
b) Using matrix method , calculate the cost of each bag of maize and beans.
c) The following term the price of each bag of maize increased by 20% while that of beans decreased by 15%.
i) How much did Maru pay for the grains?
ii) If the school enrollment increased by 10% and the food ration also increased proportionally, how much would the school spend on the grains?
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Karis owns a farm that is triangular in shape as shown below.
a) Calculate the size of angle BAC.
b) Find the area of the farm in...(Solved)
Karis owns a farm that is triangular in shape as shown below.
a) Calculate the size of angle BAC.
b) Find the area of the farm in hectares.
c) Karis wishes to irrigate his farm using a sprinkler machine situated in the farm such that it is equidistant from points A,B and C.
i) Calculate the distance of the sprinkler from point C.
ii) The sprinkler rotates in a circular motion so that the maximum point reached by the water jets is the vertices A,B, and C. Calculate the area outside his farm that will be irrigated.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Describe the problems that led to the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.(Solved)
Describe the problems that led to the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Problems the development of Masinga Dam project may bring to the area.(Solved)
Problems the development of Masinga Dam project may bring to the area.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. The recent claim by scientists at Egerton......(Solved)
Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.
The recent claim by scientists at Egerton University that the water table in the South Rift is dropping is alarming. The researchers have noted with great concern that several boreholes in the region have dried up and water volume in several rivers has rapidly reduced as a result of clearing of trees in the Mau forest. This significantly affects Lake Nakuru as its shoreline has noticeably been receding over time. We are being told this at a time when the Ministry of Natural Resources has already laid down plans to clear gazetted forests saying it to settle landless people. We cannot allow this to happen. In the past, we have watched influential people plunderKarura, Aberdares and Mt. Kenya forests. Marmanet forest in Laikipia is no more after several farmers were allocated the public land. We cannot afford to interfere with the water catchment areas of the great rivers of this country because they are our lifeline. Not so long ago, this country suffered crippling power rationing regime for more than six months, seriously hampering economic growth. Industries ground to a halt, laying off a number of employees; complicating an already worse unemployment crisis. This should have woken us up from the deep slumber that “all is well.”
Ours is a tale of unfettered impunity. Throughout the country, we read of owners of large flower farmers who have diverted the river course into their farms to irrigate their crops, denying those living downstream a source of water. Others are busy clearing wetlands, seriously interfering with nature’s ecological balance. We hear of industries shamelessly emptying their waste into rivers. Apart from that, influential transporters ferry truckloads of charcoal and the precious sandalwood under the noses of the police. More often than not, apart from empty rhetoric, we never get to hear that those responsible have been punished.
When the government kicked off the drive to reclaim the Mau forest, there was a flurry of activities from all and sundry. All came together in a massive tree planting exercise. However, the politicization of the compensation claims put forward by large estate owners with the Mau Complex, brought things to a halt. The enthusiasm has since died and no one knows when the matter will be brought to a conclusion.
We depend too much on our rivers to allow any selfish individual to interfere with their watershed. Needless to say, our complacent attitude towards environmental issues has made environmental problems uncontrollable. It is the high time we came together and took care of our environment.
The government through National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) , NGO’s and environmental lobby groups should step up efforts to sensitize people of all walks of life on the need to conserve our natural heritage for the future generations. This should be coupled with replanting of trees on all deforested government land and intensified practice in agro-forestry. The ban on cultivation along river banks and indiscriminate felling of trees for charcoal burning must be enforced.
Apart from that, steps should be put in place towards revocation of all irregular allocation of government forests to individuals. Government officers suspected of abetting land grabbing must face the full force of the law. Industries that dispose off toxic or untreated waste into the environment should also be dealt with firmly.
It’s time we took a step towards safeguarding our environment. There is need to develop a sense of collective responsibility. Considering the fact that the United States rejected the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, we should be even more vigilant and jealously safeguard what nature has provided. It’s our environment, our country, our heritage. We need it to pass it on to our descendants.
(a) What evidence is given in paragraph 1 to show that the water table in the South Rift is falling?
b)What excuse is the government giving for its plans to clear gazetted forests?
c) Using information in the second paragraph, summarize how impunity, has led to environmental
degradation
(d) How does power rationing affect economic growth?
e) What halted the reclaiming of the Mau Complex?
(f) Why is the shoreline of Lake Nakuru receding?
g)What should the government do to address the environmental problems? Write your answer in note Form.
(h) Explain the following words as used in the passage.
(i) Rapidly
(ii) Plunder
(iii) Intensified
(iv) Safeguard
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- State the objectives of Masinga Dam(Solved)
State the objectives of Masinga Dam
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Read the extract below from DOLL’S HOUSE and answer all the questions that follow. Nora: Should? He did sign them......(Solved)
Read the extract below from DOLL’S HOUSE and answer all the questions that follow.
Nora: Should? He did sign them.
Krogstad: I had left the date blank; that is to say, your father should himself have inserted the date on which he signed the paper. Do you remember that?
Nora: Yes, I think I remember—
Krogstad: Then I gave you the bond to send by post to your father. Is that not so?
Nora: Yes.
Krogstad: And you naturally did so at once, because five or six days afterwards you brought me the bond with your father's signature. And then I gave you the money.
Nora: Well, haven't I been paying it off regularly?
Krogstad: Fairly so, yes. But to come back to the matter in hand that must have been a very trying time for you, Mrs.
Nora: It was, indeed.
Krogstad: Your father was very ill, wasn't he?
Nora: He was very near his end.
Krogstad: And died soon afterwards?
Nora: Yes:
Krogstad: Tell me, Mrs Helmer, can you remember what day your father died? the month, I mean.
Nora: Papa died on the 29th of September. by any chance on what day of
Krostand: That is correct; I have ascertained it for myself. And, as that is so, there is discrepancy (taking a paper from his pocket) which I cannot account for.
Nora: What discrepancy? I don't know—
Krogstand: The discrepancy consists, Mrs. Helmer, in fact that your father signed this bond three days after his death.
Nora: What do you mean? I don't understand —
Krogstand: Your father died on the 29th of September. But, look here; your father has dated his signature the 2nd of October. It is a discrepancy, isn't it? (NORA is silent) Can you explain it to me?
(NORA is silent) It is a remarkable thing, too, that the words '2nd of October,' as well as the year, are not written in your father’s handwriting but in one that I think I know. Well, of course it can be explained; your father may have forgotten to date his signature, and someone else may have dated it haphazard before they knew of his death. There is no harm in that. It all depends on the signature of the name; and that is genuine. I suppose, Mrs. Helmer? It was your father himself who signed his name here?
Questions.
a) What is it that Nora claims to have signed? Explain.
b) What does this excerpt reveal about Krogstad's character?
c) Explain key theme brought out in the excerpt?
d) Why did Nora forge her father's signature?
e) What is the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt?
I. Ascertained
II. Discrepancy
III. Genuine
f) Papa died on the 29th of September (Add a question tag.)
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- John is a sales agent in a company that pays him a basic salary of sh.5000. In addition he is given a commission of 5%...(Solved)
John is a sales agent in a company that pays him a basic salary of sh.5000. In addition he is given a commission of 5% on sales worth sh.200, 000 and 7.5% on any additional sales above sh. 200,000.
a) In January his total sale was sh. 420,000. How much did he earn in total.
b) In February, his total earnings was sh.28125. Calculate his total sales in February.
c) The following year the company changed its policy to a flat rate commission of 9% on goods sold. In the first month, John sold goods worth sh.450,000. Find the percentage change in earning compared to the old policy.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Why is the use of inorganic measures encouraged in improving soil fertility?(Solved)
Why is the use of inorganic measures encouraged in improving soil fertility?
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Read the passage below and answer all the questions that follow. Society has the obligation to provide young people.......(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer all the questions that follow.
Society has the obligation to provide young people with the right knowledge and skills to become productive workers, good parents and responsible citizens, according a World Bank Report, Development and the Next Generation. And it is through education that the young develops their ability to be productive workers, good parents and responsible citizens, World Development Report, 2007, authored by World Bank notes The report says that effective investments need to happen during childhood and adolescence for it to bear fruits. Investments in adolescence are needed to make earlier investments during childhood pay off a hundred fold. The report underscores the need to establish a strong secondary education that will further strengthen the capabilities that primary education established.
It stresses the need to improve the relevance and quality of post primary education by teaching students the practical knowledge, thinking and behavioral skills demanded by the labour market. To achieve this, the education system must promote a teaching method that leads to high learning achievement and blends the academic and vocational curricular. It should link what happens in school to local economy.
To improve the relevance of education to the learners, the report says, education must produce peep with strong thinking and interpersonal skills because job tasks are increasingly requiring problem solving, and communciaiton skills. Entrepreneurs are also increasingly demanding thinking skills and problem and behavioral skills such as self-confidence and leadership.
In a nutshell, what are the types of skills that a topnotch education system requires? It requires two basic types of skills: thinking skills and behavioral skills. Thinking skills include conceptual, critical and creative skills. High quality education develops learners with superior conceptual, analytical and critical skills – skills that condition the learner to be curious,. Inquisitive and always posing and seeking answers to problem situations or processes. Behavioral skills include such traits as perseverance, self-discipline, teamwork, the ability to negotiate risks.
The report also still highlights the enduring role of what it terms basic skills which is literacy and numeracy-ability to read, write and count. These basic skills are needed for further learning, work and life. The report also identifies what it terms post basic skills-the higher order thinking skills, and higher order behavioural skills such as decision-making skills, team work, the ability to negotiate conflict and manage risks and specific knowledge applied to real-life situations, and vocational skills. The foregoing demonstrates the integral role of Early Childhood and Primary and Secondary cycle plays in crating the foundation for higher education in tertiary and Universality education. The quality of higher education is as good as the primary and secondary education.
(Adapted FromElimu News. A Newsletter of Ministry of Education. Issue No. 7 Dec. 2012)
a) According to the passage what is the role of the society in the development of an individual?
b) In what ways can an education system attain the demands of the job market?
c) Contrast thinking and behavourial skills
d) In not more than 40 words, summarize what is expected of a person who has attained post basic skills
e) Explain the relationship between primary and secondary education
f) The report says that effective investments need to happen during childhood and adolescence for it to bear fruits, (Rewrite using a conditional)
g) How does post secondary education benefit from lower levels of education?
h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage
a. Underscores
b. Blends
c. Topnotch
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Solve the equation(Solved)
Solve the equation
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Citing specific examples, explain four climatic hazards experienced in Kenya.(Solved)
Citing specific examples, explain four climatic hazards experienced in Kenya.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- A measuring cylinder of radius 5cm contains water whose level reads 6cm high. A spherical object is immersed in the water and the new level...(Solved)
A measuring cylinder of 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.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Add question tags to the following statements. (Solved)
Add question tags to the following statements.
(i) We need to buy a radio.
(ii) He dares to stroke the lion.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- In the sentences below, underline the nouns that are used as adjectives.(Solved)
In the sentences below, underline the nouns that are used as adjectives.
i)Mr. Charo amused the children by reciting nursery rhyms.
(ii) When we camped in the Maasai Plains, we felt like strangers in the new environment
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- The table below shows the number of children per house in a certain village.Calculate
(i) The mean number of children per house to the nearest whole...(Solved)
The table below shows the number of children per house in a certain village.
Calculate
(i) The mean number of children per house to the nearest whole number.
(ii) The median
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Correct the error in the following sentences. (i) Something is smelling awful.(Solved)
Correct the error in the following sentences.
(i) Something is smelling awful.
(ii) This brilliance is utter.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- What are the possible solutions to land dereliction?(Solved)
What are the possible solutions to land dereliction?
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Define derelict land.(Solved)
Define derelict land.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Use the correct preposition to fill the blanks. (i) I am indebted ______________ him for the help he gave me.(Solved)
Use the correct preposition to fill the blanks.
(i) I am indebted ______________ him for the help he gave me.
(ii) She has always confided ______ him.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Use the correct form of the word in brackets to fill in the blanks. (Solved)
Use the correct form of the word in brackets to fill in the blanks.
(i) His __________ (deceive) cost him his life.
(ii) The dog barked __________ to the stranger. (menace)
(iii) The ______ between Kameno and Makuyu is damaging. (enemy)
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- In triangle ABC below, AC=BC, AB is parallel to DE, AB=15cm, DE=7.5cm and BE=6cm.
Calculate
a) Length CE
b) Area of quadrilateral ABED.(Solved)
In triangle ABC below, AC=BC, AB is parallel to DE, AB=15cm, DE=7.5cm and BE=6cm.
Calculate
a) Length CE
b) Area of quadrilateral ABED.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
I laugh at Amin
(Solved)
3. Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow
I laugh at Amin
I laugh with all the skulls
Amin holds in his hands
With those perched on his shoulder
and the ones in an infinite queue
behind his back
I laugh with the victims of
the 1976 firing squad.
They were dead long before
the gunmen fired
I laugh at bullets wasted
I chuckle with the heads of school
across the nation.
It tickles to extract money
From an army of tortured widows
I remember in our school
only one child had a father
we were curious about her
we laughed to discover
she was Amin’s daughter.
I laugh with the ghost of Kay Amin
Remembering Amin astride
her dismembered body
calling her “wicked woman”
before her bereaved children.
But mainly I laugh
that seventeen years after
the man was forced to retire
Ugandans still sob at the mention of his name
surely my people lack
a good sense of humour.
(Susan NalugwaKiguli)
(a) What are we told about Amin in this poem?
(b) Identify and illustrate the main stylistic feature in the first stanza?
(c) In the last two lines, the persona claims to have a ‘good sense of humour’. Comment on the persona’
sense of humour
(d) Describe the tone of this poem.
(e) Give two lessons that we learn from this poem.
(f) Identify and illustrate other two stylistic devices used in this poem.
(g) With illustrations from the poem, say who the persona is
(h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the poem.
(i) Chuckle
(ii) Dismembered
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Use the data below to answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Use the data below to answer the questions that follow.
(i) Using the above data,account for the increased movement of people to Nairobi.
(ii) Explain five ways of how the trend in (i) above can be reverted.
(iii) Give two effects of population increase in urban centers on the physical environment.
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Read the extract below from DOLL’S HOUSE and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the extract below from DOLL’S HOUSE and answer the questions that follow.
Mrs. Linde: Still I think the sick are those who most need taking care of.
Rank: (shrugging his shoulders) Yes, there you are. That is the sentiment that is turning Society into a sick-house. (NORA, who has been absorbed in her thoughts, breaks out into smothered laugher and claps her hands).
Rank: Why do you laugh at that? Have you any notion what Society really is?
Nora: 'What do I care about tiresome Society? I am laughing at something quite different, something extremely amusing. Tell me, Doctor Rank, are all the people who are employed in the Bank dependent on Torvald now?
Rank: Is that what you find so extremely amusing?
Nora: (smiling and humming) That's my affair! (walking about the room) It's perfectly glorious to think that we have — that Torvald has so much power over so many people. (takes the packet in her pocket) Doctor Rank, what do you say to a macaroon?
Rank: What, macaroons? I thought they were forbidden here.
Nora: Yes, but these are some Christine gave me.
Mrs. Linde: What! I ?-
Nora: Oh, well, don't be ashamed! You couldn't know that Torvald had forbidden them. I must tell you that he is afraid they will spoil my teeth. But, bah! — once in a way —That's so, isn't it, Doctor Rank? By your leave! (Puts a macaroon into her mouth) You must have one too, Christine. And I shall have one, just a little one — or at most two. (walking about) I am tremendously happy. There is just one thing in the world now that I should dearly love to do.
Rank: Well, what is that?
Nora: It's something I should dearly love to say. If Torvald could hear me.
Rank: Well, why can't you say it?
Nora: No, I daren't; it is so shocking.
Mrs. Linde: Shocking?
Rank: Well, I should not dvise you to say it. Still, with us you might. What is ti you would so much like to say if Torvald could hear you?
Nora: I should just love to say— Well, I'm dammed!
Rank: Are you mad?
Mrs. Linde: Nora, dear- !
Rank: Say it, here he is! Nora (hiding her packet) Hush! Hush! Hush! ) HELMER comes out of his room, with his coat over his arm and his hat in his hand.)
Nora: Well, Torvald dear, have you got rid of him?
Helmer: Yes, he has just gone.
Nora: Let me introduce you — this is Christine, who has come to town
Helmer: Christine - ? Excuse me, but I don't know — Of course. School friends of my wife's I presume?
Mrs. Linde: Yes, we have known each other since then.
Nora: And just think, she has taken a long journey in order to see you.
Helmer: What do you mean? Mrs. Linde. No, really, I—
Nora: And when she heard you had been appointed manager of the Bank — she travelled here as quick as she could Torvald, I am sure you will be able to do something for Christine, for my sake, won't you?
Questions
a) Why does Mrs. Linde feel that those who are sick need taking care of?
b) Identify use of symbolism in the excerpt.
c) Give Nora's traits brought out in the excerpt.
d) What amuses Nora when she finds out that Helmer has so much power over many people? Explain
e) What is it that Nora would dearly love to say?
f) Hush! Hush! Hush! Identify the style used here.
g) What happens immediately after the excerpt?
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Mr. Owino spends a quarter of his salary on school fees. He spends two-thirds of the remainder on food and a fifth of what is...(Solved)
Mr. Owino spends a quarter of his salary on school fees. He spends two-thirds of the remainder on food and a fifth of what is left on transport. He saves the balance. In a certain month he saved Sh.3400. What is his salary?
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Simplify the expression
(Solved)
Simplify the expression
Date posted: August 16, 2019.
- Construct a triangle PQT such that PQ = 10 cm QR = 9 cm and RP = 8 cm.
i) Construct the locus of the point...(Solved)
Construct a triangle PQT such that PQ = 10 cm QR = 9 cm and RP = 8 cm.
i) Construct the locus of the point x such that QX = XR and mark with the letter X the
point where this locus meets QR.
ii) Construct the locus of the point X such that QX = XR and mark with the letter X the
point where this locus meets QR
iii) Construct the locus of the point Y such that PY= 6cm and mark with the letter Y, the
point where the locus meets PR.
iv) By Shading the unwanted regions show the area bounded by the three loci by the
letter T such that QT≥ TR
PT ≤ 6 cm
angle PRT ≤ angle QRT
Label the region required by the letter T.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Name the major types industries located in Thika town.(Solved)
Name the major types industries located in Thika town.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.