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MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
2024
1
2 hours
4

Uganda Certificate of Education

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

This paper 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 sheets provided.

Graph paper is provided.

Silent, non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables with a list of

formula may be used.

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 SECTION A
Answer all items in this section.
Item 1. (20 scores)
A census enumerator has been sent to count people in your village. He has been given
an i−pad that is fully charged for the exercise. Unfortunately, there is a small note of
the PIN to help you access the software for the exercise. The note indicates that the pin
number is a two digit number in base ten. This number is equal to five times the sum of
the digit. It is also nine less than the number formed by interchanging the digits. The
enumerator comes to your home and seeks assistance to to help him find the PIN for
the i−pad.
The census in Uganda is held every after 10 years. It was last held in 2014 and then
previously 2004. The census in 2024 has revealed that there are 𝟏𝟒, 𝟒𝟎𝟎 people in
your village. This has increased by 𝟔𝟎% as revealed by the census in 2014 having been
previously increased by by 𝟖𝟎% earlier in 2004.
The enumerator claims for transport refund every after four days, for the 4-day journey
made in the exercise. He travels a certain amount on the first day, then half of that on
the second day, third of that the third day and finally a quarter of that on the fourth day.
The enumerator travelled a total distance of 50km during the four-day exercise. Each
kilometer travelled is paid UGX28,000
Task:
(a) Help the enumerator encrypt the PIN.
(b) How many people were in the village in 2004.
(c) How much did she receive on each day.
(d) In your view why do you think the National Census is necessary.
Item 2. (20 scores)
Your family is designing a parking lot for day and night parking of motorcycles using
the piece of land that has been just been bought in the middle of the city centre. The
land is rectangular in shape with a length of 3m longer than the width and the area of
this portion is 𝟏𝟎𝟖𝒎𝟐 .

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The other portion of the land is a car park that will have only taxi and bus. Taxis are
allowed 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝒎𝟐 and buses are allowed 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝒎𝟐 and there is only 𝟓𝟎𝟎𝒎𝟐 of parking
space available. Not more than 40 vehicles are allowed at a time. There are always
both types of vehicles and at most 15 taxis are allowed at a time. The parking fee for
taxis is 𝐔𝐆𝐗𝟓, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 and that of a bus is 𝐔𝐆𝐗𝟖, 𝟎𝟎𝟎.
Each bus carries 𝟕𝟖 passengers when full. The bus has a total of 𝟑𝟎 seats, some of the
seats are for 𝟑 passengers and others are for 𝟐 passengers.
Task:
(a) Find the dimensions of the portion of the parking space for the motorcycles.
(b) How many vehicles of each type should be parked in the parking lot to
maximize income?
(c) Determine the number of seats for the three passengers and for the two
passengers.
(d) In your view what precautions should be taken when putting in place the parking
lot.
SECTION B
This section has two parts; I and II
Part I
Answer one item from this part
Item 3. (20 scores)
In your class, there are boys and girls. There are 𝟐𝟎 boys whose average weight is
𝟓𝟎𝒌𝒈 while the average weight of the entire class of 𝟓𝟎 students is 𝟓𝟔𝒌𝒈.
Every student in your class offers agriculture and as project for the class, each student
was tasked to plant a coffee seedling in February term one. At the beginning of March,
they measured the heights of the seedlings in (cm) and recorded there heights in there
reports to their agriculture teacher as shown below.
4.7 2.7 2.3 4.6 3.7 2.8 2.9 3.6
4.9 3.9 4.5 3.4 4.2 3.5 1.7 1.1
2.0 3.7 3.3 3.8 3.8 1.8 3.1 3.6
4.1 1.4 1.6 2.1 2.8 2.6 3.3 4.0
3.2 4.3 3.5 2.4 4.4 4.1 2.9 3.2
The teacher was interested in knowing the average height of the seedlings.

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The class teacher grouped the students and gave the students a mind game of finding
out the hidden discs. The game was intended in testing the students ability to discover
and explore hidden ideas in scenario questions. The discs were of four colours of
white, green, red and orange. Three groups X, Y and Z. group X found out 6 white, 9
green and 4 red discs, group Y found out 6 green, 9 red 4 oranges and 4 white discs
while group Z found out 3 orange, 3 white, 4 red and 10 red discs. 12 points are
awarded for each white disc, while green, red and orange discs are awarded 6, 5 and 7
points respectively.
Task.
(a) On average, are girls heavier than boys; explain your answer.
(b) What is average height of the seedlings.
(c) What is the minimum height of a viable seedling if only ten seedlings are viable?
(d) Arrange the information above properly and determine which group won the
game.
Item 4. (20 scores)
Your neighbor has a cup board of twenty identical cups of which eight are red, seven re
white and the rest are black. She has received some visitors from the village who have
come to celebrate the graduation of her daughter at night and is planning to give them a
cup of tea at night. She is told that only two of the visitors like tea and so goes to the
cupboard to pick the two cups. Unfortunately, power goes off and she barely seeing
anything. She outs her hand carefully in the cupboard and picks the two cups one after
the other, each cup she picks the colour is noted and she puts tea for the visitors.
The following day on the graduation party day of her first daughter, she received a
total of fourty guests and availed them with three types of drinks, Novida(N), Fanta(F)
and Mountain Dew(M). a total of 17 guests took Novida and this was the same number
of guests that took Mountain Dew, while nineteen guests took Fanta. She noted that
two guests wanted Nivana mineral water, 5 guests took Novida and Fanta, 6 took
Novida and Mountain Dew while seven took Mountain Dew and Fanta.
Task:
(a) What is the probability that both cups picked had the same color?
(b) What is the chance that a guest picked at random preferred only one drink?

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 Part II
Answer one item from this part
Item 5. (20 scores)
A tourist planning to travel to Uganda from the United Kingdom establishes from
google map that Jinja is 𝟖𝟎𝒌𝒎 due East and 𝟒𝟎𝒌𝒎 due north of Kampala and Luwero
is 𝟒𝟎𝒌𝒎 due East and 𝟖𝟎𝒌𝒎 due North of Kampala. He also notes a straight road
connecting Luwero to Jinja and confirms that Kayunga along this route is midway Jinja
and Luwero. On the straight Kampala-Jinja highway, he takes note of a small town
called Mukono midway the journey. On his tourist visit, he plans to fly from Kampala
to Jinja and travelled by road to Luwero making a stopover at Kayunga where he will
drop his colleague who plans to connect from Kayunga to Kampala so he can see the
beautiful Kalerwe Market. A Uber taxi from Kayunga to Kampala usually charges
𝑼𝑮𝑿𝟏𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 per km for locals but the fee doubles for tourists.
Task:
(a) Determine the displacement of Jinja from Luwero hence determine the distance
between the two towns.
(b) At an exchange rate of 𝐔𝐆𝐗𝟒𝟖𝟎𝟎 per UK pound, how many pounds will the
tourist part with to connect to Kampala from Kayunga using Uber taxi.
(c) Identify some of the tourist attractions that tourists can come and see in any of
the areas mentioned.
Taxi 6. (20 scores)
Paul is a man in your village who fetches water to earn a living. He uses his bucket of
height 𝟔𝟑𝒄𝒎. the bucket has a top diameter of 𝟑𝟎𝒄𝒎 and a bottom diameter of
𝟒𝟖𝒄𝒎 as shown below. Your family is organizing your eighteenth birthday and Paul
has been contacted to fetch water for the party and he has to fill a 500 litres tank. He is
payed 𝑼𝑮𝑿𝟓𝟎𝟎 per bucket.

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 30cm

63cm

48cm

As he was slopping down the well to fetch the water, he observes a crested crane at the
top of the tree of height 20m at an elevated angle of 30o, when he moved closer
towards the tree to observe it clearly, the elevated angle increased by 12o and he was
able to see the bird clearly. Paul has a height of 𝟏. 𝟐𝒎.
(a) How much was Paul paid for the task.
(b) How close did he move to see the bird clearly?
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