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MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
Jun/Jul. 2024
2 ¼ hours

MEPSA RESOURCEFUL ASSESSMENT 2024

Uganda Certificate of Education

MATHEMATICS

TIME: 2hours 15 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

This paper consists of two sections; A and B. It has six examination items.
Section A has two compulsory items.
Section B has two parts; I and II. Answer one item from each part.
Answer four examination items in all.
Any additional item(s) answered will not be scored.
All answers must be written in the Answer booklet(s) provided.
Graph Paper is provided.
Silent, non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables with a
list of formulae may be used.

Turn Over
SECTION A
All questions are compulsory
Item one:
John plans to visit the shop that is 12km south of his home and then the boutique that is 5km east of
the shop and after drive back home using a direct route from the boutique to home. He is to use his
motorcycle that consumes 0.035liters of fuel per km and he wants to know how much fuel he will
need for the whole journey.
He has seven hundred fifty thousand Uganda shilling. He plans to use part in the shop and part in the
boutique in the ratio of 3:2 respectively. He wants to spend UGX.210,000 to buy shirts and
UGX.120,000 to buy trousers. However, he is not sure if his budget for the boutique will be enough.
From the shop, he is to buy 24 packets of cooking oil, 12 packets of sugar and 30 packets of salt. All
of these are to be used to make packages for some of his family members in the village. He wants
each package to have an equal number of items in it. He needs to know the highest numbers of
packages he can make from them.
Task:
a) How much fuel will he need for the whole journey?
b) Will the money he plans to use in the boutique be enough for what he plans to buy? Justify
your answer.
c) How many packages will he make from the items he plans to buy?

Item two:
A certain catering and decoration company was called to cook 100kg of rice at a certain party.
According to their cooking notes, they put 22.5 liters of water in 10kg of rice and 67.5 liters 0f
water in 30kg of rice. They want to use those notes to know how many liters to use in the rice they
are ordered to cook but they are finding it hard.
The customer wants a tent at less than UGX.250,000 and chairs atUGX.200,000 at most. However,
to maximize profit, the company wishes to provide both at UGX.400,000 at least. The company is
finding it hard to decide on how much to charge the customer for the two items respectively.
Task:
a) (i) Form a mathematical relationship between the quantity of rice and
liters of water used to cook it according to their notes.
(ii) Use the relationship developed to help them determine the liters they
will use in the rice they are ordered to cook.
b) (i) Form inequalities that are making it hard for the company to decide
on how much to charge the tents and chairs respectively.
(ii) Use the inequalities, to help them decide on how much to charge for
the tents and chairs respectively.

SECTION B
PART ONE (Attempt one item from this part)

Item three:
Your friend wants to sell dresses in your home area according to age. She requests you to
recommend the dresses of a specific age he can display for most.

2
You gathered and summarized data to use it and find out the age of the majority of people in
the community such that you recommend that. Below is the summery of your data:
Age groups 30 – 34 35 –39 40 – 44 45 – 49 50 – 54 55 – 59
(years)
Number of 6 3 13 7 4 3
people.

Task:
a) (i) What age is the majority of the people in the community?
(ii) What is the probability that your friend will succeed if he sews the
dresses of that specific age?
(iii) According to the probability, is your recommendation a good choice?
(Justify your answer).
Item four:
For your leaver’s party campaign, members suggested that you buy and put on T-shirts as a class.
You have three suggestions of sizes of T-shirts you can buy these are; Small size(S), Medium size
(M) and Large size (L) T-shirts.
You will only buy the suggestion as the captain if 70% of your fellow students can fit in at least two
sizes. Below are your findings that you are going to base on to make a decision:
 The number of students who fit in medium size is equal to those who fit in large size and they
are 100.
 The number of students who fit in small size is 76.
 Those who fit in small size and large size are 50.
 Those who fit in medium size and large size are 70.
 Those who fit in small size and medium size are 60.
 Those who fit in none of the sizes are 4.
 Some students fit in all the three sizes.
 The class is made up of 140 students.
Task:
a) Will you buy the suggestion of buying and putting on T-shirts as a class for your leaver’s
party campaign? Justify your answer.

PART TWO
Attempt one item from this part
Item five:
A friend was given sketches below of the rooftop he plans to put on his house;

TWO SIDES TWO SIDES

7m 7m 11m
7m
7m
8m
19m

3
The builder recommended iron sheets of 3ft by 4ftthat cost UGX.40,000per sheet. Your friend needs
to know how many iron sheets to buy and how much it will cost him. He requested for your help as a
mathematics student.(1ft = 0.3)
He also plans to get a loan of UGX. 4,000,000 that he plans to pay back in3 years to finance his
other projects. One bank offers the loan at a simple interest rate of 10% and the others offers the
same loanat a compound interest rate of 5%. He is finding it hard to decide which bank to get a loan
from.
Task:
a) How many iron sheets will he need to buy and how much will he need to buy them?
b) Which bank do you recommend him to get a loan from and why?

Item six:
Mary usually sets off from a landing site that is located on coordinate 𝑶(−𝟗, 𝟕) on her grid map to
island 𝑨which is located at coordinate 𝑨 (−𝟔, 𝟑) on her grid map during her day off. Island 𝑨 is
south east of landing site 𝑶. This time she plans to extend her tour from island 𝑨to another island 𝑩
that is 9km north east of island A and then sail back to the landing site through the direct route.
She plans to tour around island 𝑨 for 3hours and around island 𝑩for 4 hours. Her journey is to start
at 10:00am. She hopes to be back by 20:00hours since she has work the following day. She wants to
know if it’s possible to return by that time but she does not know the time the ship will take to sail
the whole journey. The boat is usually ridden at an average speed of 64km/hr.
She is in charge of paying her fellow workers. Some workers were given a salary increment to
UGX.650,000. This includes allowances of UGX.120,000. She needs to know how much income tax
she is to deduct from them and the net amount she is to pay them using the tax bands below:

TAXABLE INCOME (UGX) TAX RATES (%)

0 – 200, 000 0
200, 001 – 400, 000 10
400, 001 – 600, 000 15

Task:
a) (i) What is the total distance they are to sail?
(ii) What is the total time the entire tour will take inclusive of the time the boat will take to
sail the whole journey?

(iii) Will she make it back at the planned time? (Justify your answer)
b) How much will she pay her fellow workers?

END