THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL OF TANZANIA PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVING EXAMINATION

04E MATHEMATICS

Time: 2:00 Hours Year: 2023

Instructions

1. This paper consists of sections A and B with a total of forty five (45) questions.
2. Answer all questions.
3. Read all the instructions in the special answer sheet (OMR).
4. Fill in all the needed information in the OMR form.
5. Shade the digits of your Examination Number in the respective places of the OMR form.
6. Shade the letter of the correct answer for question 1 to 40 in the answer sheet provided. For example, if the correct answer is A, shade as follows:

7. If you have to change your answer, you must use a clean rubber to rub out the shading neatly before shading the new one.
8. Use HB pencil only to answer question 1 to 40, and a blue or black ink pen for question 41 to 45.
9. Show all work clearly for question 41 to 45 in the space provided on the OMR form.
10. Cellular phones and any unauthorised materials are not allowed in the examination room.

SECTION A: 

MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS, FIGURES AND WORD PROBLEMS

For each of the questions 1 - 40, work out the answer, then choose the correct option and shade its corresponding letter in the special answer sheet (OMR) provided.

l . Which is the next number in the following sequence? 29, 33, 37, 41, _____

1. 43
2. 45
3. 47
4. 42
5. 46

2. The length of a football pitch is 90.136 metres and the length of a netball pitch is 30.769 metres. Write the difference of the pitches length into two decimal places.

1. 60.63 
2. 59.34 
3. 60.37 
4. 59.37 
5. 59.36.

3.  Akilimali fell down after running for  of an hour. What percentage of time remained to complete an hour?

1. 75% 
2. 0.25% 
3. 25%
4. 7.5% 
5. 2.5%

4. Mr. Mandela has a farm of a circular shape with a diameter of 35 metres. If he decides to plant trees around the farm at a distance of 2.2 metres apart from each other, how many trees will he plant around the whole farm? (Use π =  )

1. 110 
2. 242 
3. 77
4. 51 
5. 50

5. A doctor attended the patients in two days. On Monday, he attended 81 patients and on Tuesday he attended 69 patients. Which is the fraction of patients who were attended on Monday?

6. Rehema and Fadhili started at once counting oranges. Rehema counted loudly after every 5 oranges and Fadhili after every 9 oranges. Which first common number will they count loudly?

1. 14
2. 4
3. 45
4. 90 
5. 54

7. The tank of Baker's motorcycle was filled with 24 litres of 5 oil. If it will travel a distance of 10 km and use  of the oil, how many litres of oil will remain?

1. 15 
2. 34
3. 9
4. 25 
5. 14

8. A bus has 23 seats, two of them are for the driver and conductor and  of the remaining seats are for the passengers. How many seats are empty in the bus?

1. 21 
2. 14
3. 16
4. 7
5. 9

9. Five pupils were given a task of listing all multiples of 6 between 30 and 60. Which list is correct?

1. 36, 48,54, 56
2. 36, 42, 54, 60
3. 36, 40, 42, 48
4. 36, 48, 54, 60
5. 36, 42, 48, 54

10. Ester calculated the product of all prime numbers between 80 and 90 correctly. Which one is the correct list?

1. 7387 
2. 7378 
3. 7,367 
4. 7,373 
5. 7,396

1l. Five groups listed ail even numbers between 1 15 and 124. Which group listed the numbers correctly?

1. 116, 120, 122, 124 
2. 116, 118, 120, 122 
3. 116, 119, 120, 122 
4. 116, 118, 120, 124
5. 116, 120, 123, 124

12. The students were give an exercise of arranging the numbers 1.25, 20%,  , 0.15 and -3 in a descending sequence. Which sequence is correct?

1. 1.25,  , -3, 0.15, 20%

2. -3, 1.25, 0.15, 20%,
   

3. -3, 20%, 1.25,  , 0.15

4. 1.25, 20%, 0.15,  , -3

5. 1.25, -3, 20%, 0.15,

13. Mwanahawa deposited 450,000 shillings in a bank for a period of 2 years and she got an interest of 27,000 shillings. What is the rate of interest given by the bank?

1. 2%
2. 3%
3. 4%
4. 5%
5. 1%

14. Ushindi primary school has a total of 960 pupils. If there are 540 girls, what fraction represents the number of boys?

15. Mariam's mother had 100 kilogram of rice. She gave Elisha , Mwajuma   and Isaac   of all amount of rice.  How many kilograms did a person with a small share get?

1. 30 
2. 40
3. 70
4. 20 
5. 10

16. Musa ate of bread and Amina ate   of the same bread.What fraction of the bread did they remain with?

17. Sabrina and Salma got a profit from their joint business. Sabrina received  of the profit and Salma received 0.4 of the profit. Find difference of the amount received in percentage?

1. 60% 
2. 40%
3. 30%
4. 80%
5. 20%

18. Upendo travelled at a distance of 16 ¾ kilometres by bicycle and the remained part she walked on foot. If she travelled at a distance of 18 ½ kilometres, at what distance did she walk on foot?

1.  Km

2.  Km

3.  Km

4.  Km

5.  Km

19. Uhuru Primary School had 80 cattle. Last year the school decided to sell   of the cattle. How many cattle did the school remain with?

1. 50 
2. 48 
3. 32
4. 10 
5. 30

20. An electric company uses 5,500 litres and 760 mililitres of diesel a day to produce an adequate amount of electricity needed at Wazalendo village. How much diesel should be used in February of a short year to satisfy the needs of the village?

1. 154,021 litres and 280 mililitres 
2. 170,523 litres and 560 mililitres
3. 165 ,022 litres and 800 mililitres 
4. 154,021 litres and 250 mililitres
5. 159,522 litres and 40 mililitres