EMUHAYA JOINT EVALUATION TEST – 2025 121/1 MATHEMATICS PAPER 1

EMUHAYA JOINT EVALUATION TEST – 2025
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
121/1
MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1
2½ HRS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES.
1. The paper contains two sections: Section I and II.
2. Answer all questions in section I and strictly five questions from section II.
3. Show all the steps in your calculations, giving your answers at each stage in the spaces below
each question.
4. Marks may be given for correct working even if the answer is wrong.
5. Non- programmable silent electronic calculators and KNEC mathematical tables may be used.
SECTION I (50 MARKS)
Answer all the questions in this section.
1. HIV/AIDs awareness posters have been erected along both sides of a street in Nairobi. The posters
are 60m apart along the left-hand side of the street while they are 75M, a part along the right-hand
side. At one end of the street the posters are directly opposite each other. At what distance
measured from that end would you again find them directly opposite each other.
(3marks)
2. Use tables of squares, square roots and reciprocals to evaluate.