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- The following data was obtained for masses of some pregnant women in a maternity clinic.
(a) Represent the information in the table above on a histogram,...(Solved)
The following data was obtained for masses of some pregnant women in a maternity clinic.
(a) Represent the information in the table above on a histogram, on the graph paper provided.
(b) Use the information in the table above to estimate :
(i) the mean mass.
(ii) the median mass
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Read the passage below and answer all the questions that follow(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 From Elimu 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?
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Give the advantages and disadvantages of Phase Shift Oscillator(Solved)
Give the advantages and disadvantages of Phase Shift Oscillator
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Akukuranut women group decided to raise sh.126,000 towards a poultry farming project. Each
woman was to contribute equal amount. Before the contributions, 7 of them pulled...(Solved)
Akukuranut women group decided to raise sh.126,000 towards a poultry farming project. Each
woman was to contribute equal amount. Before the contributions, 7 of them pulled out from the
project therefore the remaining members had to pay more.
(a) If P stands for the original number of members, show that the increase in contribution Was
(b) If the increase in contribution per person was sh.200, find the number of women
That were originally involved in the project.
(c) Calculate percentage increase in the contribution per person caused by the withdrawal of
some women to one decimal place.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- A 1 mH inductor is available. Choose the capacitor values in a Collpitt’s oscillator so that f = 1 MHz and mv = 0.25.(Solved)
A 1 mH inductor is available. Choose the capacitor values in a Collpitt’s oscillator so that f = 1 MHz and mv = 0.25.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Determine the (i) operating frequency and (ii) feedback fraction for Collpitt’s oscillator shown in Fig. 6.12.(Solved)
Determine the (i) operating frequency and (ii) feedback fraction for Collpitt’s oscillator shown in Fig. 6.12.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- State three characteristics of the first phase/stage of demographic transition.(Solved)
State three characteristics of the first phase/stage of demographic transition.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Find the area of the square of sides (x + 2) Hence find 1022.(Solved)
Find the area of the square of sides (x + 2) Hence find 1022.
Date posted: August 15, 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 15, 2019.
- Explain the meaning of the following terms:
(i) Implicit population policy
(ii) Explicit population policy.(Solved)
Explain the meaning of the following terms:
(i) Implicit population policy
(ii) Explicit population policy.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Simplify the expression(Solved)
Simplify the expression
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- In the sentences below, give the nouns that are used as adjectives.(Solved)
In the sentences below, give 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 15, 2019.
- Correct the error in the following sentences.(Solved)
Correct the error in the following sentences.
(i) Something is smelling awful.
(ii) This brilliance is utter.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Explain the Barkhausen Criterion(Solved)
Explain the Barkhausen Criterion
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- 1600cm3 of fresh water of density 1g/cm3 are mixed with 1400cm3 of sea water of density 1.25g/cm3. Determine the density of the mixture.(Solved)
1600cm3 of fresh water of density 1g/cm3 are mixed with 1400cm3 of sea water of density 1.25g/cm3. Determine the density of the mixture.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- The figure below is a right pyramid with slant height of 5cm and square base of 4cm.
(a) Draw its net and label it.
(b) Calculate...(Solved)
The figure below is a right pyramid with slant height of 5cm and square base of 4cm.
(a) Draw its net and label it.
(b) Calculate the total surface area.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Fill the blank spaces using the correct form of the verb in brackets. (Solved)
Fill the blank spaces using the correct form of the verb in brackets.
(i) If I had money, I ______ (buy) a computer.
(ii) If he _______ (be) obedient, I would stay with him.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Differentiate natural population growth from numerical population growth.(Solved)
Differentiate natural population growth from numerical population growth.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Use the correct preposition to fill the blanks.(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 15, 2019.
- Chakol booksellers received US Dollars 100,000. The money was converted into Kenya Shillings in a bank which buys and sells foreign currencies as follows :
...(Solved)
Chakol booksellers received US Dollars 100,000. The money was converted into Kenya Shillings in a bank which buys and sells foreign currencies as follows :
Buyng Selling
(In Kenya shillings) (In Kenya shillings)
1 US Dollar 77.24 77.44
1 Sterling pound 121.93 122.27
(a) Calculate the amount of money in Kenya shillings, the business received.
(b) The business exchanged the Kenya shillings calculated in (a) above, into sterling Pounds to buy a car from Britain. Calculate the cost of the car to the nearest Sterling pound.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Identify four functions of the National Council for Population and Development (NCPD)(Solved)
Identify four functions of the National Council for Population and Development (NCPD)
Date posted: August 15, 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 15, 2019.
- The G.C.D of two numbers is 36 and their L.C.M. is 1260. If one of the numbers is 252,find the other number.(Solved)
The G.C.D of two numbers is 36 and their L.C.M. is 1260. If one of the numbers is 252,find the other number.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
(Solved)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
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 15, 2019.
- Twenty women working 12 hours a day take 12 days to complete a job. How many more days will it take eight women working 20...(Solved)
Twenty women working 12 hours a day take 12 days to complete a job. How many more days will it take eight women working 20 hrs a day to complete the same job ?
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Solve the inequalities and represnt the solution on number line. 3x – 9 < 5x + 3= 2x – 6(Solved)
Solve the inequalities and represnt the solution on number line. 3x – 9 < 5x + 3≤ 2x – 6
Date posted: August 15, 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 15, 2019.
- Explain three main sources of water pollution along the Kenyan coastal waters.(Solved)
Explain three main sources of water pollution along the Kenyan coastal waters.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- B(2, 5) is a point on the circumference of a circle whose equation is 2x2 + 2y2 – 4x – 8y = 10.Find the equation...(Solved)
B(2, 5) is a point on the circumference of a circle whose equation is 2x2 + 2y2 – 4x – 8y = 10.Find the equation of the tangent to the circle at point B.
Date posted: August 15, 2019.
- Okisai is three times as old as his son now. If ten years ago the sun of their ages was 44. How Old was Okisai...(Solved)
Okisai is three times as old as his son now. If ten years ago the sun of their ages was 44. How Old was Okisai when his son was born ?
Date posted: August 15, 2019.