Primary Leaving Examination 2023 Mathematics
Primary Leaving Examination 2023 Mathematics
SECTION A:
5. What is the complement of 670? 6. Find the next number in the sequence: 0, 3,
1, 4, 2, _______.
7. Given that set M = { 2, 5, 8} and set N = { 6, 9}, 8. Calculate the square root of 0.25.
find M ∩ N.
11. If 4 plates cost sh.24,000, how much will 8 such 12. Solve: 5x – (x + 4) = 4.
plates cost at the same rate?
13. Kato scored the following marks in a game: 4, 6, 14. OJAMBO bought a watch at sh. 15000 and sold it
2, 4, 6, 4 and 0. Find his modal mark. at a loss of 20%. At what price did he sell the
watch?
15. Write XCIV in Hindu Arabic numerals. 16. OUMA had 40 Km to cover after travelling 3/5 of
the journey. How long was the journey?
18. The bearing of town P from town Q is 0600. What 17. Find the area of the shaded part of the circle.
is the bearing of town Q from town P?
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19. Change 10010two to base 10. 20. How many lines of symmetry does the figure
below have?
Section B
21. In a class of 56 pupils, 25 like Science (S), 30 like 22. The figure below is a rectangle. Study it and
Mathematics (M) x like both subjects and 2 like answer the questions that follow.
neither of the subjects.
a. Draw a venn diagram
(c) How many pupils like Science only? (c) Work out its perimeter.
24. BWIRE wrote three digit numbers using the following 25(a) A man put sh.120,000 in a savings society which
digits: 6, 7, and 9 without repeating any of the gives a simple interest of 5% per year. Find the total
digits in each number. amount he had with the savings society after 4 months.
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26. A BUS rode North from town A for a distance of 27. A lady went shopping with a sh.50,000 note and
40 Km to town B, then he rode to the west for 30 bought the following items:
Km to town C. 2 ½ Kg. of meat at sh.8000 per Kg.
(a) Draw an accurate diagram to show her journey 2 Kg. of posho at sh.2000 per Kg.
using a scale of 1cm = 10Km. 3 Kg. of irish potatoes at sh.1500 per Kg.
500 gm. of sugar at sh.3200 per Kg.
x ……….. 0 ………. 7
30. In a class of 48 pupils, ¾ like Maths, 2/3 of the 31. Convert 54k.p.h to m/s.
remainder like English and the rest like SST. How
many pupils like SST?
32. The pie chart below represents Taabu’s (a) Find the value of m.
expenditure for the month of June. Use it to
answer the questions that follow.
(b) If he spent sh.72,000 on rent, how much
money did he earn that month?
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ITEM TWO
SECTION A:(40 marks)
1. Subtract: 210–21=
2. Round off 3865.8 to the nearest hundreds.
3. In the diagram below, calculate the value of n in degrees.
4. Add: 1 + 2
4 5
5. A text book weighs 870 grammes. Express the weight of the book in kilograms.
6. Write 70,080 in words.
7. A die is tossed once, what is the probability that a number less than 5 shows up?
8. Work out: ¯3 + +5 + ¯4
9. A baby was born at a quarter past mid-night. Express this time on a 12 hour clock system.
10. Drop a perpendicular line from A to meet line XY.
A
.
X_______________Y
(i) Complete the Venn diagram below using the above information.
……=ع..
n(M) = …… n(E) = ……
…….. t ……..
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(ii) If 35 pupils like one subject only, find the value of t. (2mrks)
(iii) Find a chance of picking randomly a pupil who likes maths . (2 mrks)
22. The table below shows the number of notes withdrawn from the bank in different denominations. Complete the
table.
23. Lorna is 20 years youngest than Juma. In 15 years’ time, Juma’s age will be twice the age of Lorna. How old is
Lorna?
24. The Highest Common Factors (HCF) of two numbers is 10 and their lowest common multiple (LCM) is 120. If
one of the numbers is 40, find the other number?
25. The average of 5 girls is 21 years. If the age of one of them is 8 years, calculate the average age of the
remaining girls.
26. The triangle ABC below is an Isosceles triangle. Study it and answer questions that follow.
a). Find the value of n in degrees.
b). Work out the size of angle ACB.
27. A tank is 5/6 full of water. When 800 litres is removed, the tank becomes 2/3 full. Calculate the capacity of
the tank.
28. The figure below is an isosceles triangle. Use it to answer the questions that follow.
(2y + 1)cm
(3y - 1)cm
8cm
(a) Find the value if y. (2 mrks
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(b) Find the height (h) of the triangle. (3 mrks
29. A trader bought a suit at Shs. 100,000 and sold it at Shs. 80,000.
a). Calculate his percentage loss.
b). How much should he have sold the suit in order to realize a profit of 15%?
30. With help of a ruler, pencil and a pair of compasses only, construct a rhombus PQRS where PQ = 5cm and angle
SPQ = 60o.
Measure;
a). length of diagonal QS.
b). Angle QSR.
31. A taxi driver covered a distance of 144km in 2 hours.
a). Calculate his average speed in km/hr.
b). Express the speed in metres per second.
32. Use the grid below to answer questions that follow.
a). Plot the points A(¯2 , 1) , B(¯2 , ¯2) , C(2 , ¯2) , D(2 , 2)
b). Join the points and name the polygon formed.
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ITEM THREE
SECTION A:(40 marks)
1. Work out: 303
x 4
2. Simplify: 2x + 3y + x + 4y
4. Subtract: 101two
- 11two
12. Nakiguli walked 0.5km. What distance did she cover in metres.
13. The mean of 4, 5, 0, x and 7 is 5, Find the value of x.
14. The cost of buying 400 Kenya shillings is Uganda sh.8000. How many Kenya shillings can Uganda sh.24,000
buy?
15. In the diagram below, there are vertically opposite angles. Calculate the value of angle p.
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16. The bearing of Entebbe from Kampala is 0450. What is the bearing of Kampala from Entebbe?
17. Round off 43.392 to the nearest tenths.
18. The area of a square chalkboard is 100cm2. Find the length of one of its sides.
19. The probability that Dan will pass a Mathematics Mock exam 2/9. What is the probability that Dan will fail this
paper?
20. The temperature of a day rose from ¯50 to 250. What was the rise in the temperature?
SECTION B:
22. In a Mathematics test given to a class, the marks scored, frequency and total marks are shown in the table
below.
4 4 16
…………………… 9 45
6 ……………………. 84
7 8 …………………………….
8 5 40
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24. The diagram below shows a sports field of length 100m with semicircular ends of diameter 70m.
(a) Calculate the distance in metres a runner covers by running around the sports field.
(b) Find the area of the sports field.
25. Using a pencil, a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct a regular hexagon od radius 4cm.
26. Patrick left town K and travelled 16km westwards to town P. He then travelled 12Km northwards to town R.
(a) Draw a sketch to show Patrick’s movements.
(b) Using a scale of 1cm to represent 4Km, draw an accurate diagram showing Patrick’s journey.
(c) From your diagram, find the shortest distance from town R to town K.
A parent has 3 sons and 2 daughters in the school, how much money did he pay for full uniform for all his
children?
28. The table below shows a train journey from Tororo to Lira.
UGANDA RAILWAYS
DISTANCE IN KM STATION DEPARTURE TIME ARRIVAL TIME
FROM TORORO
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31. Wycliffe read ¼ of the pages of a book on Friday, a 1/3 on Saturday and the 30 remaining pages on Sunday.
How many pages did Wycliffe read altogether?
32. On the grid below:
7. Given that represents 15 eggs and a tray carries 30 eggs, find the number of
8. The figure below is made up of 2n small semicircles and one big semi circle. Find the perimeter of the figure.
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I, II, III, Iv, V, VI, VII, VIII, _______.
11. Drop a perpendicular from point A to meet line CD at point M
12. A 50 minute lesson ended at 11:00 a.m. At what time did it start?
13. Represent 1010two on the abacus.
14. Work out the square root of: 11
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15. Work out 9 + 892 + 99.
16. From the grid below, give the coordinates of K.
17. The ratio of red pens to blue pens in a box is 2:3 respectively. How many red pens are in the box if the of blue
pens is 15?
18. Find fractional equivalent of 0.7272… in its lowest terms.
19. The line graph below shows Katongole’s performance in Term I exams. What was Katongole’s lowest mark?
20. Binojjo deposited sh.150,000 in a bank that offers a simple interest rate of 4% p.a. How much was Binojjo’s
interest after a period of 8 months?
SECTION B:
21(a) At a birthday party, children were given two queen cakes each, adults were served with 3 meat pies and each
member who attended was served with a bottle of soda. If 48 queen cakes and 72 meat pies were served, how
many bottles of soda were served?
(b) If a crate of soda contains 24 bottles, how many crates of soda were served at the party?
22(a) Study the figure below and find the value of y.
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(b) The complement of 2x – 100 is 500. Find the value of x.
23. In a family of 19 members, 6 eat meat (M), 4 eat both meat and fish while y eat fish (F).
(a) Represent the above information on the Venn diagram given below.
(a) after how many minutes will the two bells ring together?
(b) If they last rung together at 8:00 a.m., at what time will they ring together again?
25(a) Simplify: 4 + 1 x 3 – 1 of 2
5 3 5 4 3
ITEM FIVE
SECTION A:(40 marks)
1. Add: 78 + 438
2. Solve for y: 3y – 4 = 5
3. Calculate the area of the shaded part in the figure below.
9. Simplify: ¯6 + ¯4 =
10. Tamale scored the following marks in Mathematics tests: 60, 78, 75, 78, 81. What was his modal mark?
11. Simplify 2/3 – ¼.
12. Find the next number in the sequence: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, _____.
13. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct an angle of 30 0 in the space provided below.
14. Expand 4023 using exponents.
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15. The exchange rate in the Bank of Uganda is Uganda sh.2300 to one United States Dollar (US $) How much
money in Uganda shillings is equivalent to 17 US $?
16. Given that set A = {a, b, c, d, e} and set B= {b, c, e, g, h}. Find n(A∩B)
17. The distance from Masaka to Mbarara is 120 km. If it takes a Gaso bus 2 ½ hours to cover that distance,
calculate its speed.
18. Write CXCLX in Hindu Arabic numerals.
19. Work out 2 ÷ 3 = ___________ (mod 5)
20. Factorize completely: (6y2 – 2y)
SECTION B:
21(a) Peter and James shared sh.2000 in the ratio 2:3 respectively. How much more did James get than Peter?
(b) Simplify: 36 + 12 ÷ ( 4 x 3 )
100 100 10 10
22. Kato walked from his home to school at a speed of 30 metres per minute. If he took 1 hour to walk from his
home to school, calculate the distance between his home and school in kilometres.
23. In a class, 40 pupils every pupil participates in Scouting (S). Some pupils participate in other activities such
Games (G) and Debating (D) as shown in the Venn diagram below. Study it very carefully and answer the questions that
follow.
28. In a Mathematics exercise given to P. 7 pupils, the marks scored were recorded in the table below:
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(a) What integers are shown by the arrow:
(a) How long did the bus take to travel from Kampala to Zana?
(b) For how long did the bus stay at Kajansi?
(c) At what time did the bus leave Kisubi?
(d) How long did the bus take to travel from Kampala to Entebbe?
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ITEM SIX
SECTION A:
1.Add: 256 + 122 5. A meeting lasting for 2 ¾ hours started at 9:40am. At what time
did it end?
2. What is the value of 6 DFin 21648?
3. Workout: 3 ¼ - 1 ½ 6. Simplify -9 - -6
4. Find the next number in the sequence 7. Express 250ml as litres.
1, 2, 6, 15, 31, ___________, ___________
8. Subtract 3y – 8 from 8y – 18
12. A wire 5m long is to be cut into pieces. How many 25cm pieces
9. Given that n (A) = 24, n (A – B) = 6 and n (A u B) 32. Find n(B)
can be got from it?
10. Magezi sold his bull at 760,000/- and realized 5% loss. How much
13. Divide 1212 by 4
did he buy it?
14. A kilogram of sugar cost 2500/-. Find the cost of 750g of sugar.
11. Find the size of angle P in the figure below.
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15. Write 30304 in words.
18. In a class of 120pupils, the ratio of boys to girls is 7:3. How many
girls are in the class?
4002P
19. A car travels at a speed of 20km/ hr covering a distance of 80km.
how long does it take?
16. The average of y, 3y, 7y, 4y and 0 is 6. Find the value of y.
20. Using a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil only, construct an
17. Solve the equation 5P – 8 = 42 angle of 1200.
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SECTION B
21a) Expand 3647 using powers of 10.
23a) Solve 2x + 4 = 2 (mod 6)
21b) Round off 967 to the nearest tens.
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c) A school was started in MCMXC. In which year in Hindu b) Solve and write the solution set 16 > 4x > 4
Arabic numerals was the school star
24.a)Workout (7 x 15) – (7 x 8) using distribution
property.
22. In a class of 35pupils, 10 eat peas (P) 7 eat both peas
and beans (B) while n eat beans only and 5 do not like any
b) A tray of eggs carries 30 eggs. How many trays are
of the two food stuffs.
needed to pack 960 eggs?
a) Represent the above information on the Venn diagram
below.
c) What base has been used?
n = (£) = 35
n(P) = 10 n(B) 531
-2 4 4
2 76
______
16
a)
2P 3P
(2p = 2)cm
R S
(P -2)cm
P Q
(P + 5)cm
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ITEM SEVEN
SECTION A:
1.Write 2/3 in words 5. How do we tell that 1023 is divisible by 3
3. Measure the line segment drawn below 7. Today is Friday. What day of the week will it be after
133 days
4. An examination started at 8:30am and ended at
10:45am. How long did the examination last? 12. Given set Q= {1,2,3}.Find the number of proper
subsets in set Q.
8. A basket contains 6 god eggs and 3 bad one. If a boy
picked an egg at random. What is the probability that the 13. 49 villages recovered relief food from the Uganda red
egg picked is a bad one? cross. If each village received 760kg. How many tones of
Posho did the red cross give?
9. Show 5 backward steps on a number line below.
14. What number was expanded as below?
10. Name the solid shape shown below (5 x 105) + (4 x 102) + (3 x 103)
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19. Give one example of an infinite set.
● ●● ●●● ●●●●
●● ●●● ●●●●
●●● ●●●●
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SECTION B
21a) Find the product of the value of 5 and value of 3 in 65,213. (3mark 23. Show -3 - +6 on a number line and find its
solution. (3marks)
b) Divide the value of 8 by the place value of 2 in the number 18425.
(2marks) 23b) A rat is 2m below ground level and a
monkey is 6m above ground level. How far
apart are these animals solution? (2marks)
P_________________________________Q
25. The time table below is for a P.4 class in Nakapiti part SDA school.
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Study it and answer questions which follow
8:30 9:10 9:40 10:3 11:00 11:4 12:20
9:10 9:40 10:30 0 11:40 0 1:00
11:0 12:2
0 0
Mon MTC ENG SCIE B SST CAPE CAPE
Tue CAPE CAP MTC R SCIE SST ENG
II E II
Wed SCIE MTC MTC E ENG ENG SST
Thurs. ENG SST SCIE A MTC CAPE CAPE
III
Fri SST CAP CAPE K MTC ENG SCIE
E II II
a) How many hours do CAPE lessons take in the time table? (2marks)
b) How many double lessons appear on the time table above? (1mark)
26. Ochwo had 3times as many goats as Owere. When Ochwo sold 6 of
his goats, he was left with 3 goats.
a)How many goats did Ochwo have?(3marks)
27. In a class of 90pupils, 60 like hockey (H), 50 like tennis (T) m pupils
like both hockey and tennis. 20 like neither of the games.
a) Draw a Venn diagram to show the above information.(3marks)
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(x + 3)cm
(2x + 6)cm
32. The graph below shows the cost of groundnuts in kg. Study it and answer the questions that follow.
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Number of kilograms
a)What is the cost of 1kg of groundnuts?
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ITEM EIGHT
SECTION A
1. Work out: 7– 5
9 9
2. Write XIX in Hindu Arabic numerals.
3. Solve the equation: 2 y2 = 24
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4. Round off 29.561 to the nearest whole number.
5. Find the next number in the sequence: 2, 3, 6, 11, 18, ______
6. Write 12025g in kilograms.
7. Given that 10011two = 23x. Find the value of x.
8. What percentage of the figure is unshaded?
9. Simplify: ¯2 – ¯7
10. A stretch of a road is 2.5 km long. Trees are planted at a distance of 10m from each other. Find the number of
trees planted.
11. Find the median of 5, 2, 0, 3, 4
12. Find the value of 2(a – b) if a = 5 and b = ¯3.
13. A PIASCY seminar ended at 9.10 a.m. At what time did it start if it took 55 minutes?
14. Using a pair of compasses, a ruler and pencil only, bisect the given angle below.
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15. Divide: 24 ÷ 1.5
16. Find the area of the semicircle below. (Take = 22)
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19. The average weight of 6 boys is 40Kg. Two boys weighing 40Kg and 20Kg leave the group. Find the average
weight of the remaining four boys.
SECTION B
22. In a class of 56 pupils, 30 pupils eat matooke (M), X pupils eat potatoes (P) only, 4 pupils eat both matooke and
potatoes while 2 pupils eat neither of the two types of food.
(a) Complete the Venn diagram given below using the information above.
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(b) Find the size of angle y in the figure below.
24. The diagram below shows a running track. Use it to answer the questions that follow.
26(a) Using a pair of compasses, ruler and a pencil only, construct a rhombus ABCD such that AC=8cm and
BD=6cm.
(b) Find the perimeter of the above figure.
27(a) Solve: 8x – 1 = 2x + 5
5 3
(b) Musoke is 10 years younger than Ali. In 5 years’ time, Ali will be twice as old as Musoke. How old is Musoke
now?
28. Pondi went with sh.50,000 and bought the following:
3 kg of sugar at sh.3,400 per kg.
4 sachets of salt for sh.2,000.
2 kg. of rice at sh.4,500 per kg.
1½ kg. of meat at sh.10,000 per kg.
30. The table below shows the number of pupils in each class in a school.
P. 1 30
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P. 2 36
P. 3 30
P. 4 24
31. The digits 3, 4, 5 are arranged in a random order to form three - digit numbers. No
digit is repeated in any number formed.
(a) Write down the possibility space for the numbers formed.
32. Of the three church bells, one rings at an interval of nine minutes, the second at an interval of twelve minutes
and the third at an interval of fifteen minutes. If they ring together at 9:30 a.m., when will they next ring
together again?
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ITEM NINE
SECTION A (40 marks)
(Question 1 to 20carry two marks each)
1. Add: 4 + 17
2. Write in figures: Sixty thousand, twenty.
3. Simplify: 2y – 4x + y
4. Given that set M = { 2, 4, 6 }, find the number of subsets in set M.
5. Work out: 4--2
6. Find the next number in the sequence.
1, 3, 6, 10, ____
7. How many lines of folding symmetry has the figure below?
8. The cost of 3 pens is Sh. 2400. What is the cost of 2 similar pens?
9. Change 4kg to g.
1 1
10. Work out:
3
+
2
11. What afternoon time is shown on the clock face below?
B
C
13. Workout: 1101two + 111two
14. Given that a = 2, b = 3 and c = 4, find the value of b(a+c)
15. Find the median of the numbers: 8, 10, 4, 1, 6 and 9.
16. Write XCIX in Hindu Arabic numerals.
17. Find the value of x in the diagram below.
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3xo 2xo
18. Work out: 2 – 6 = ____ (mod 7)
19. Write 0.08 as a fraction in its simplest form.
20. Describe the shaded region.
A B
22. Study the figure below and use it to answer the questions that follow.
(a) Find the value of;(2 marks each)
Fy Fw (i) y
(ii) w
31 22
21 32 51
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23. In a class of 32 pupils,
8
are girls,
24. Study the Venn diagram below and answer the questions that follow.
(a) Workout the value of y (2 marks)
n(Ԑ) = 50
n(V) n(X)
25 - 3 20 + 2y
y 28
(b) Find: (2 marks each)
(i) n(V)
(ii) n(V – X)
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25. (a) Solve: 3(t – 2) = 6
(3 marks)
(b) Find the total distance around the figure. (2 marks)
3x cm 5x
cm
4x cm
26. A man had three children, Juliet, Brenda and Tom. He shared 48 acres of land among them in the
ratio of 2 : 3 : 1 respectively. Calculate the acres of land each child got.
27. (a) Construct a triangle ABC using a pair of compasses and a ruler only.
Given that AB = 6cm, A = 45o and B = 60o (4 marks)
28. Study the number line below and answer the questions that follow.
-7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8
g
(i) e = ____________________________
(ii) f = ____________________________
(iii) g = ____________________________
(b) Write down a Mathematical statement for the number line above. (2 marks)
29. Ssonko scored the following marks in different subjects:
60, 54, 73, 80 and 83
(a) What was Ssonko’s median mark? (2 marks)
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+ 355 - 3 850
31. Josbel and her daughter travelled from Kampala to Nairobi by bus.
She paid K.Sh 1500 and her daughter paid K.Sh 760.
Given that the exchange rate was K.Sh 1 = Ug. Sh 34.
(a) Find the bus fare in Uganda shillings that each paid. (4 marks)
(b) If JosbelhadUg Sh. 102,000 at the beginning of the journey. What was her balance in
Uganda shillings after paying the bus fare for both? (2 marks)
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(b) Change 4
2
hrs to minutes. (2 marks)
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ITEM TEN
Sention A
1.Add 13 to 320
2. Write 104,104 in words.
3. Find the GCF OF 15 and 35.
4. Simplify 2y – 4q –y +3q
5. What number has been represented by the tallies below?
7cm
20cm
7. Simplify -
1 --4 - 2.
8. Workout 1
/ 5 ÷ 4/ 3
9. Workout 7272 ÷ 3.
10. Given that P = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9., 11, 13)
Q = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11) Find n(P n Q)
P R
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n(m) E (a) If 30 pupils like math’s only, find the value of r. (2mrks)
(p-2)cm
(p)cm
(p + 2)cm
23. David had 40 oranges. He gave 3/5 of the oranges to his friends Edison and Samson. Edison got 1/3 of the
orange given to them; Samson got ¾ of what Edison left. The remaining oranges given to them were bad.
a)How many oranges did Edison got?
(b) How many oranges did Samson get? (2mrks each)
c) What fraction of orange given to them was bad?
25. A bus left town A at 8:40am and arrived town B at 11:40am travelling at a speed of 50km in one hour, it
then continued for two hours to town C At a speed of 80km/hr
a) Find the distance between town A and town C. (3mrks)
b) Calculate the average speed of the bus for the whole journey. (2mrks)
25. In a class, the ratio of boys to girls is 8: 3. There are 30more boys than girls.
a) Find the total number of pupils in the class? (3mrks)
b) What is the number of girls in the class? (2mrks)
26. The sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 33. If the middle number is K. find the range of the number.
(5mrks)
27. The pie-chart below shows mock results of Abifa primary school 2018.
Grade 1 grade 2
1200 1100
X
Grade 3
a) Find the value of x
(b) If the school had 36 pupils, how many passed in 2nd grade?
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29. A businessman sold a shirt to Adam at sh 63000 making a loss of 10%. Adam sold it to Andrew at a profit
of 15%
a) Calculate the amount of money the businessman paid? (3mrks)
b) For how much money did Andrew pay for the shirt (2mrks)
30. The volume of the water in the tank below is 1540cm3
a) Find the height of water. (Use π = 22/7) (2mrks)
14cm
h1 100cm
31. Using a pair of compasses, a ruler, a pencil only, construct a triangle ABC in which B = 7cm, BC = 5cm
angle ABC = 60O. (4mrks)
AC = __
32. Joshua bought a rectangular door that measured 100cm by 70cm and he was to use it to cut circular chairs
of radius 7cm.
a) How many chairs did he make? (2mrks)
b) Calculate the area of the door which was not used (4mrks)
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ITEM ELEVEN
SECTION A
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1. Workout: 3 0 7
+ 5 2
3. Solve 2P2 = 24
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4. Round off 29.561 to the nearest ones.
6. Simplify: -7 - -2
11. A maths workshop ended at 9:10am. At what time did it start if it took 55 minutes.
12. Workout: 24 ÷ 1.5
13. Using a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil only, bisect the given angle below.
1100
18. The average weight of 6 men is 40kg. Two men weighing 40kg and 20kg leave the group. Find the
average weight of the remaining 4 men.
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19. Shade (A-B) complement.
B A
20. The interior angle of a regular polygon is 120. How many sides does the polygon have?
(3x)cm
2
(5x – 7)cm
24. A driver travelled for 3 hour 45 minutes at an average speed of 64km/hr. How long did it take on the
return journey at an average speed of 80km/hr?
25. Musoke is 10 years younger than Ali. In 5 years time, Ali will be twice as old as Musoke. How old is
Musoke now?
26. In a class of 56 pupils, 30 pupils eat matooke (M), X pupils eat potatoes (P) only, 4 pupils eat both
matooke and potatoes while 2 pupils eat neither of the two types of food.
a) Complete the Venn diagram given below using the information above.
M = ___ P = ___
_____ 4 _____
_____
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- 2kg of rice at sh. 2400 per kg.
- 1 ½ kg of meat at sh. 5000per kg
How much change did she get after paying for all the items?
29. The digits 3, 4 and 5 are used to form three digit numbers.
a) Write down the possibility space for the numbers formed.
b) Find the probability that the number formed is odd.
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
31. The table below shows the number of pupils in each class in a school.
P1 P2 P3 P4
30 36 30 24
31a) The head teacher of our school got a personal loan of 2400, 000/- from centenary Bank at a rate of 20%
per annum. Calculate the simple interest he is supposed to pay after nine months.
b) John and Martha shared 4 apples in a ratio of 3:2 respectively. How many apples did each get?
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ITEM TWELVE
SECTION A (40 MARKS)
1. Add: 33+3
40
2. Simplify: 3p + 2p
7. In the Venn diagram below, shade the region representing the set Y complement of set X
X Y
5 5
8. Subtract: -
6 12
9. Convert 40 cm to metres
10. Awinjo bought a hen for sh. 10,000 and sold it to Nyapendi making a loss of sh. 1200. How much
money did Nyapendi pay for the hen?
12. The travel graph below shows how Kayondo travelled from school back home.
Calculate Kayondo’s average speed for the entire journey
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15. Find the square root of :
144
A
5 cm
B 4 cm C
17. Given that: A= 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 B= 2, 3,, 5, 7, 11
Find n (A - B)
18. In a church service attended by 200 people, the ratio of adults to children was 3:7 respectively.
How many children attended the church service?
20. By counting squares, find the volume of the cuboid below in cubic units.
SECTION B
21. a) Write 7411 in expanded form (1 mk)
22. a) With the help of a ruler, sharp pencil and a pair of compasses only, construct a
triangle LMN in which LM = 7cm, <MLN = 900 and
<LMN = 300
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24. a) Solve: 2c - 8 = 0 (2 mks)
2y y + 200
a) Find the value of y (2 mks)
b) A birthday party which started at 10:50pm. How long did the party last?
28. In a class of 120 pupils, 40% are boys and the rest are girls.
a) What is the percentage of girls? (2 mks)
29. In a school with 23 teachers, 11 teach mathematics (M), 13 teach science (S), ‘X’ teach both
subjects while 8 teachers teach other subjects.
a) Represent the above information on the Venn diagram below
(3mks)
n(M) =11 n(S) =13
_______ X _____
____
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b) If a customer remained with 10,000 shillings after buying 1 ½ kg of rice and a litre of cooking
oil from
Atono’s shop, how much did he have first?
c) If Atono buys a 50kg bag of sugar for sh. 100,000, calculate her profit on selling 1kg of sugar.
31. Mwiine is 7 years older than Lubanga. Their total age is 23 years.
a) How old is Lubanga now? (2mks)
c) How old will Lubanga be in ten year’s time from now? (1mk)
32. Study the pie chart below and use it to answer questions that follow.
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ITEM THIRTEEN
SECTION A
1. Add: 0.41 + 2.
2. Express CXLX IN Hindu Arabic.
3. Round off 49.96 to the nearest tenths.
4. Increase sh.12000 in the ratio of 5.3.
3y
120 0
7. Simplify 5y-6m-3m+7y.
8. In the space below construct angle of 1500 with the help of a ruler, pencil and a pair of compasses only.
9. Find the sum of the next two numbers in the sequence.
13. Simplify 1 + 1 -1
3 5 4
14. Find the complement of (30-2n)0.
D C
5cm 45
A B
12cm
17. In a class, the ratio of girls to boys is 3:2. Find the number of pupils in the class if there are 24 girls.
4cm
6cm
11cm
19. Work out: 4 ÷ 8.
7 21
20. In a class, 3 of the pupils are boys. If there are 250pupils in the class, find the number of boys.
5
SECTION B
21. At a class party of 41 pupils, 18 drank Mirinda (M), 19 drank Fanta (F), 9 drank both Mirinda and Fanta,
while 6 did not drink any of the two sodas.
n(€) =41
M F
________ g ________
c). Find the number of pupils who drank one type of soda.(2mks)
b). Solve and write the solution set 3(1-x) < 15. (3mks)
23. Tap A fills a tank of 6 minutes and tap B can fill the same tank in 3 minutes.
a). How long will the two taps take to fill the same tank if opened at once?(3mks)
b). What fraction of the tank will the two taps fill in 1 minute?(1mk)
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24. Kamara went to the market and bought the following items shown in the table below.
b). If Kamara went to the market with sh.30,000, how much did he remain with?
25a). Given that the mean of 3, n+5, 1,n+3 and 5 is 5. Find the value of n.
b). The average weight of 5 boys is 48kg. When a sixth boy joins them, the average becomes 45kg. What is
the weight of the sixth boy?(3mks)
26. The pie-chart below shows how a farmer divided his land. C is for crops, G for grazing, T for Trees and R
for reverse. The land available is 720 hectares,
R G
2X0 X0
3x0 3x T
C
b). If a farmer pays sh.5000per hectare per year, how much will he pay for land reserved for crops?
1 2
29. Mary used of her land for grazing and of the remainder for
3 5
cultivation. She had 20 acres still left.
a). What fraction of the land was used for cultivation?(2mks)
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30. Without using a protractor, construct a triangle PQR such that PQ= 5cm. PQR = 1200 and QPR= 30 0. Drop
a parpenderdicular from R to meet PQ at point P. (5mks)
31. Study the number line and answer the following questions.
P = __________________
Q =__________________
R = _________________
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32. (a) 3 men can do a piece of work in 6 days, How long will 9 men take to do the same piece of work,
working at the same rate?
b) How many days would 3men take than 9 men in doing the same work?
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ITEM FOURTEEN
SECTION A:
1. Add: 46 to 51
2. Write “fifty-eight thousand, fifty-eight” in figures.
3. Find the difference of the second and seventh prime numbers.
1− 1
3 6
4. Simplify:
5. Draw a Venn diagram to show that all cows(C) are animals.
6. Work out the value of 2P in the figure below.
1100
14m
70m
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17. Subtract 322five from 401five
18. Find the next term in this sequence. 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ___
19. Given that P =-6, y = 4 and K = 0, find the value of: yk + P
3
x
5
C B
SECTION B
21. In a group of 40 people, all like meat (M), 25 like both meat and fish (F), 16 like both meat and chicken
(C), W like all the three dishes and 5 like neither of those dishes.
(a) Complete the Venn diagram below.
n()ع
n(C n(F)
…… w ……
……
∠
22. Amooti, Akiiki and Ateenyi shared dollars in the ratio of: respectively.
(a) If Amooti received four more dollars than Akiiki, how many dollars did they share altogether?
(b) What percentage of the whole share did Ateenyi get?
23. Study the figure below and answer questions that follow.
1
( y +4 )dm
2
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(a) Work out its actual length and perimeter.
(b) Calculate its actual area.
24. Ojobire is 20 years older than Obiina. In four years’ time, Obiina will be half as old as Ojobire.
(a) How old is each now?
(b) What was Ojabire’s age six years ago?
25. Below is a cuboid (K) and a big box (M). Musobya packs milk powder in cuboids and packs them in the
big box for export to Southern Sudan.
(2y−4 )dm
(K) (M) 42cm
7cm
50cm
4cm
5cm
55cm
Calculate the space left empty after packing cuboids (K) into the big box(M)
26. The table below shows how pupils got their marks in a certain weekly test. Study it carefully and
answer questions about it.
Marks 20 W 70 50
Number of pupils 2 3 1 1
(a) Find the value of w if the man mark was forty.
(b) How many pupils in total scored above and below the median mark?
∠ ∠
27. A woman spent of her monthly income on clothes, of the remainder on rent and kept the rest.
(a) What fraction of her income did she keep?
(b) If she kept two hundred thousand shillings, how much is her monthly income?
28. (a) Expand 6979 using powers of base ten.
(b) Find the product of the value of 8 and the place value of 6 in 87960.
29. (a) Using a ruler, a sharp pencil and a pair of compasses only, construct a regular pentagon whose
one side is 4.5cm.
(b) Show the lines of folding symmetry in the accurate diagram above.
30. Otada bus travelling at 55km/hr took 4 hours to cover part of its journey. The rest of the journey which
was a fifth of the covered journey was travelled in only 2 hours. What was the average speed of the
bus over the whole journey?
31. In the diagram below, line MN is parallel to PQ and PQN is an isosceles triangle. Use it to answer
questions that follow
M N
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7k 3k
Q P
(iv) Find the value of K.
∠
(v) Calculate the size of QNM.
32. A woman went to capital shoppers and bought;
3kg of maize flour at sh. 4000 a kg.
4 litres of milk at sh. 1600 per half litre.
8 sweets at sh. 2000 for every 4 sweets.
(a) What was the total cost of all the items?
(b) If she went with 2 twenty thousand shilling notes and was given a discount of sh. 1500, how
much was her change?
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ITEM FIFTEEN
SECTION A:
1. Write “230,406” in words.
1− 1
3 6
3. Work out
4. In the figure below, find the value of n.
(3n + 200)
(3n 200)
F V
9 4 6
3
x
5
15. Solve: - 4 = 15 x 2 + x
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16. Okurut deposited 160,000/= in a Stanbic bank at an interest rate of 10% per year. What interest will
he get on his account after 2 ½ years?
17. Solve: -3a + 7 < 1 and write the solution set.
18. In the figure below is a Rhombus with diagonals AC = 12cm and DB =16cm. Find the length of one side
of the Rhombus.
D B
C
19. The figure below is a tank full of water. How many litres of water are in the tank?
70cm
40cm
20. Find the least number which can be divided by 10 or 12 of 15 without a remainder.
SECTION B
21. (a) Solve 3y - ½ y =5
(b) A father is three times as old as his son. The difference between their ages is 30 years.
(i) How old is the son?
(ii) Find the father’s age.
22. The frequency table below shows the weights of boys in a P.6 class at Atim Primary school. Study it
carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Weight in kgs 25 30 20 15 35
Number of boys 2 1 3 4 5
(c) Find the number of boys in the class.
(d) What is their total weight ?
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(e) What is the range of their weight?
(f) Calculate the mean weight per boy.
(5x – 7)m
(x +3)m
(2x +5)m
4x (200 + 2x)
P R
(c) Find the value of x.
(d) Calculate the size of angle PQR in degrees.
27. Ssendi packs cylindrical tins whose height is 10cm and diameter is 5cm in a rectangular box (carton). If
the carton measures 60cm long by 20cm wide by 30cm high.
(c) How many tins will be packed in the cartons?
(d) Find the space (in cm3) that will remain after the tins have been packed in the carton.(Take π
3.14)
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28. In a P.7 class of 55 pupils, 25 of them passed Maths (M), 35 of them passed English (E), 10 passed both
subjects and 5 failed both subjects.
Complete the Venn diagram below.
N( = )ع55
E M
(c) Find the number of pupils who passed only one subject.
(d) If a child is picked at random to be a prefect, what is the probability that the one picked passed
Maths only?
29. (a) Using a pair of a compasses a sharp pencil and a ruler only, construct triangle ABC in which AB =
∠
6.4cm CAB = 900 and AC = 3.6cm.
33. Measure BC.
∠
34. Measure CBA
1
(y+4)dm
2
30. Below is a cylindrical piece of hollow wood. (π = 3 )
10cm
8cm
21cm
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32. The travel graph below shows the journey of a motorist from town A through B to C and back to A.
140 C
120
DISTANCE IN KM
100
80
60 B
40
20
A 0
11:00a.m
12:00 noon
1:00 p.m
2:00p.m
3:00p.m
4:00p.m
10:00a.m
9:00a.m
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TIME IN HOURS
(vi) What is the speed of the motorist from A to B?
(vii) For how long did he rest at town C?
(viii) Calculate the average speed of the motorist for the whole journey?
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