P456/1
Mathematics
Paper 1
Nov/Dec 2024
1
2 4 Hours
SEETA KASANGATI SS EXAMINATIONS BOARD
UGANDA CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION
END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT 2024
SENIOR TWO
MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1
TIME: 2 HRS: 15 MIN
INSTRUCTIONS TO SEMI -CANDIDATES
This paper consists of six (6) scenario-based items carrying equal marks with two
sections A and B. Section A consists of only two (2) compulsory items.
Section B has two parts I and II, each containing two (2) items.
You are required to attempt any one (1) item from each part of section B. Any
additional item(s) attempted shall not be scored.
Silent non-programmable scientific calculators may be used.
You may lose marks if you do not show your working.
Poor handwriting and untidy work shall lead to loss of marks.
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
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SECTION A: (COMPULSORY)
Respond to all items in this section
ITEM 1
You are in charge of your sibling’s birthday party at the end of this month. There’s a lot of
planning going on and you are to draft a budget in relation to the number of the visitors. Your
parents handed you two million five hundred thousand Ugandan shillings only to budget for the
party for 2210three guests such that 20% of the amount on food , 40% on drinks and 2/3 of the
remaining amount to decoration and the rest to cake. The party starts at 4:00 pm by serving
water, soda and wine to the guests at that time. The person in charge of drinks now serves water
after every 20minutes; soda after every 30 minutes and wine after every 50 minutes. The cake
will be served at the time when all the three drinks are again served at the same time.
Task
Determine;
(a) The number of invited guests in binary base.
(b) The amount spent on each item.
(c) The time when the cake will be cut
Item 2
A wholesaler decided to market his new products as following.
The wholesaler gives bonus of radios on condition the customer buys more than one fridge or the
customer buys a fridge and any other item. A customer buys a fridge on the first day. He buys
three fridge on the second day and the wholesaler gives a bonus of one radio. He buys five
fridges on the third day and the wholesaler gives a bonus of 4 radios. He buys seven fridges on
the fourth day and the wholesaler gives him a bonus of seven radios. On the seventh day, a
customer buys cooker and a flat irons not more than five in total. He buys at least one flat iron.
He also buys at least two cookers and y to represent number of flat iron.
Task
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(a) Following the sequence, suppose the customer buys fridges every day for seven days,
how many fridge will the customer buy on the seventh day and how many radios he will
have accumulates altogether.
(b) If each fridge costs shs. 250000, design a fryer indicating the customer’s fares for fridges
for all the seven days.
(c) Using appropriate graph, find the region that represents the appropriate number of
cookers and flat iron that customer should buy.
SECTION B
PART I
Respond to one item from this part.
Item 3
When s.1 learners of Seeta Kasangati Secondary school were handling a topic of measurements
in physics, their teacher asked one of the learners to measure the height of everyone in the class.
The learner used a tape measure and got the following results in centimetres.
145 142 144 145 144 141 143 140
143 140 140 145 141 145 143 143
141 143 144 141 140 143 142 145
143 141 142 140 143 145 144 143
141 143 140 142 143 142 143 145
140 144 143 145 143 141 145 144
Task
(a) As a math learner make a tally chart for the above information.
(b) Represent the heights of the learners on a bar graph
(c) Using the data, help the teacher to determine the height of the learners that appear most.
(d) Apart from a tape measure, which other instrument(s) could the learner have used.
Item 4
A farmer leaves his inheritance to his son, the inheritance comprises ug. Shs 250million and a
house located along a straight road which is given by the equation y=-x. the plan of the father’s
house given on paper is given with coordinates A (-5, 1), B (-2, -2), C (-2, -6) and D (-7, -1). The
son uses the fifth of the money to buy a plot of land opposite the road with coordinates P (-3, 5),
Q (1, 9), R (9, 1) and S (5, -3). He uses a tenth of the remaining money to construct a house in
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the plot he bought such that it is similar to the given one to him by his father but flipped on the
existing straight road. He wants to plant flowers in the remaining piece of land around his house.
Task
(a) How much did the son spend on buying the piece of land?
(b) What are the coordinates of the plan of the house that the son constructed in this land?
(c) Calculate the area of the piece of that land that they bought and the area of the remaining
part that he used for flowers.
PART II
Respond to only one item in this section
Item5
A friend of yours who stays in England bought a triangular plot of land in your district. One side
of his plot is 30m and the other side is 35m. These two sides intersect at an angle of 750. You
advised him to develop his plot due to the rampant land grabbing in your district. He decides to
construct the biggest round house that just touches the edges of his plot. He decides that the
works will start with digging a circular foundation without encroaching on the neighbour’s land.
You inform him that workers charge UGX 10000 per metre dug. However, he requests you to
send him the total cost for the workers to dig the foundation.
Task
Come up with a total cost for just digging the foundation, in pound sterling given that the
exchange rate is 1£= UGX 4500. Give your answer to the nearest pound.
Task 6
The senior two class of 36 students recently set out at 6:00am by bus to a mathematics contest
awarding ceremony. It was held at the national mathematics centre. The driver, Mr Othello
worried that they may reach late, he accelerated from school until he reached a speed of 35ms-1
in 20 minutes, which speed he maintained for 16 minutes. Mr Othello intended to maintain this
speed for the rest of the journey. However, upon reaching Liveries town where traffic was
congested, Mr Othello decelerated steadily to 15ms-1in 4 minutes. When he passed the town, Mr
Othello again accelerated steadily to 50ms-1 till the national mathematics centre in 12 minutes.
Mr Othello wondered if the girls would have been earlier had he not encounter the traffic
congestion at Liveries town. As for the girl, they were simply overjoyed by the outstanding
performance of their school. The performance was grouped into basic, intermediate and
outstanding. 12 girls had outstanding results, 18 had intermediate performance and the rest were
basic performers.
Task
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(a) As a S.2 mathematics class representative, prepare a diagrammatic representation (pie
chart) of your performance which you will present to the Head teacher.
(b) Draw a speed time graph of your journey to the national mathematics centre
(c) Use the average speed of Mr Othello between Liveries town and the national
mathematics centre to help Mr Othello estimate time he will take on the return journey if
there will be no traffic congestion during the return journey.
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