MBOGO MIXED SECONDARY

NLSC PRE-REGISTRATION 2025

MATHEMATICS
2HRS 15MINS
INSTRUCTIONS
✓ The paper has two(2) sections A and B.
✓ Section A has two compulsory items. Section B consists of two(2) parts and you must
answer ONLY one examination items from each part of section B.
✓ Attempt all items in this paper
✓ All items carry equal scores.
SECTION A
Answer all items from this section.
Item 1.
Your friend is a market vender.She realizes that her customers prefer buying tomatocs in small
quantities. So she decides to re-package her tomatoes into heaps of four.One day she bought nine
heaps of tomatocs which had eight tomatoes each from the market at a cost of Ugx 2000 per heap
and was given a discount of 5%.She deeides to sell her heaps of four tomatoes at UGX 1200
cach and hence wants to find out how much gross profit she will carn from all her heaps. She
further intends to visit Queen Elizabeth National Park in December 2024.Her uncle visited the
same tourism centre last December 2023 with his 3 children and spent Ugx 17000 on entrance
ticket.Mr and Mrs Mukasa visited the same park in june 2024 with their child and spent
Ugx.14.000.She plans to buy entrance tickets for herself,husband and five children and hence
needs to know how much she will need.If park charges are adjusted every after five years.
Task:
How much;
a) Gross profits will she earn from her heaps after re-packaging? (08 scores)
b) Money will she spend in total to buy the tickets she needs? (12 scores)
Item 2.
Your Mathematics teacher is planning to transport not more than 400 students to a seminar in a
neighbouring school located 10 kms away.He however does not know how many trips each
vehicle will make so as to minimize transport expenses.
After consultations with the manager,Super free express bus company,the teacher realizes that if
all students paid,their total contribution,should not be less than sh 360,000. The school is to hire
a bus which carries 64 students per trip and a mini bus which carries 16 students per trip.The
number of trips made by the bus should be at least two and those made by the minibus should be
at most 6.The minibus should make more trips than the bus and the charges will be Ugx 40,000
and Ugx 90,000 per trip for the minibus and bus respectively.
Task:
(a) "Help the teacher to find out the number of trips each vchicle should make to achicve his
goal.
(b) What is the maximum number of students that the teacher can transport? (20 scores)
SECTION B
This section has two parts;I and II
Part I
Answer only one question
Item 3.
Your guardian realizes during holidays that he may find it difficult to pay for sports uniform that
costs Ugx 38,000 at the beginning of term II.He decides to keep you busy during the last week of
your holiday moving around the village buying cabbages at Ugx 800 per cabbage. You will later
group them into two groups: Group A shall be cabbages whose weight is below the average
weight and Group B will be cabbages whose weight is above the average weight.
Later,you will sell the cabbages and the profits from the sales will be used to cover the cost of
the sports uniform.Group A cabbages will be sold at Ugx 1350 each while Group B cabbages
will be sold at Ugx 1650 each.
Before displaying the cabbages for sale,you measure and record their weights in grammes as
follows.
104 99 107 96 101 84 102 78 106 108 63 104 86 111 102 100
95 100 65 112 76 87 95 85 95 103 61 105 73 99 83 102
102 97 92 90 113 107 88 102 110 91 90 109 82 66 92 91
108 73
Task
(a) Using suitable statistical method,find the average weight of the cabbages. (10 scores)
(b)If you sell all the cabbages at the planned selling price;will the guardian be able to meet his
goal? (10 scores)
Item 4
Your Aunt who works very far away from home tells you to identify a shop that can give you
bean,sugar and posho on credit and she pays for these consumables every after two weeks.
She also tells you not to exceed UGX 100,000 for the two weeks on average. After touring the
trading center, you decide to pick consumables from the shop that sells a kg of beans at UGX
4000, a kg of sugar at UGX 5500 and a kg of posho at UGX 2400. You plan to pick consumables
on every Mondays and Thursdays.while taking records as shown below"
Week one;
Monday: 2 kgs of sugar,3 kgs of posho and 2 kgs of beans.
Thursday: 4 kgs of posho and 3 kgs of beans
Week two;
You had visitors this week and picked more items as follows;
Monday: 3 kgs of sugar,4 kgs of posho and 2 kgs of beans
Thursday: 1 kg of sugar,2 kgs of beans and 5 kgs of posho.
Your Aunt is now back and asking you how much money you owe the shopkeper.
Task
(a) How many kig of each consumable you picked from the shop Altogether in the weeks?
(b) How much money will you tell your Aunt to pay?
6)Did you fit in the planed expenditure budget? (20 score)
SECTION B PARTII
Item 5
Your uncle has a bathroom with thtce walls and the floor that he wishes to tile.The person who
wishes to do this work gave him the quotations required to complete this work as follows;
Each box of tiles can cover a space of 1.5 square metres and costs Ugx 32,000.
-The two opposite walls measure 6 feet by 6 feet each.
-The floor and the other remaining wall measures 5 feet by 6 feet.
- Labour charges is Ugx 9000 per square metre.
Other expenses on materials namely: adhesive, sand,cement, spacers and gravel amount to Ugx
200,000. He has money for all other expenses in hard cash but must borrow the money for tiles
and labour from his siblings at a compound interest rate of 5%, if he can pay back by the end of
1.5 years.
However, Uncle is finding it hard to determine how much to borrow and how much is expected
to pay back. Note: 1 feet = 0.305metres.
Task:
Help your uncle to find out how much money to borrow and how much to pay back to his
siblings. (20 scores)
Item 6
A manager owns a paint company which makes paint of various colours.He receives an order
from his clients to make paint by mixing three ccolour’s White(W), Blue(B) and Red(R )in the
ratios W:B = 3:2 and B:R = 3:2.The customer orders for 380 litres of similar paint. Paint W costs
Ugx 2200 per lite. Paint B costs Ugx 2700 per litre and Paint R costs Ugx 2850 per lite. The
manager packs the similar paint made in buckets in a shape of a frustrum with top diameter 30cm
and bottom diameter 20cm. The buckets are 48 cm deep as shown.

If the manager buys a cylindrical tank of diameter 1.8 m height 1.2 m which he wants to fill with
paint so as to cater for any urgent demand that may arise.
Task
(a) (i) Determine the quantity of each paint in the mixture.
(ii) Find the amount of money needed to make 1 litre of the mixture.
(iii) Obtain the percentage profit made by selling the mixture at Shs.3800 per litre.
(b) Help manager in determining the number of buckets that must be drawn to fill the tank. (20
scores)
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