BUDDO JUNIOR SCHOOL

P.7 PRE PLE SET THREE / TEN

2024
MATHEMATICS
Time Allowed: 2 hours 15 minutes

EMIS No. Personal No.

Index No.

Pupil’s Name: ……………………………………..………………………..………………………..

Pupil’s Signature: …………………………………………………………..……………………….
School Name: …………………………………………………………………………………………..

District Name: …………………………………………………………………………………………

Read the following instructions

FOR EXAMINERS’
carefully: USE ONLY
1. Do not forget to write your school or
district name on the paper. Qn. No. MARKS EXR’S
2. This paper has two sections: A and B. NO.
Section A has 20 questions and section B 1–5
has 12 questions. The paper
6 − 10
has 10 printed pages altogether.
3. Answer allquestions. All working for both 11 – 15
sections A and B must be shown
in the spaces provided. 16 – 20

4. All answers must be written using a blue 21 – 22

or black ball point pen or ink. Any work
written in pencil will not be marked. 23 – 24
5. Unnecessary changes in your work and
25 – 26
handwriting that cannot be read
easily may lead to loss of marks. 27 – 28
6. Do not fill anything in the table indicated:
“For Examiners’ use only” and boxes 29 – 32
inside the question paper TOTAL
 SECTION A: 40 MARKS

Answer all questions in this section

Questions 1 to 20 carry two marks each

1. Work out: 405 - 289

2. Write 490,092 in words.

3. Simplify: 7mn - 7m - n – mn + m.

4. Given D = (4, 0, 5, 8). List all proper subsets of D.

5. Find the square root of the next number in the sequence;

36, 49, 64, 81, ......................

6. Express 0.1777777...... as a common fraction.

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 7. Precious slept at 10:15 p.m. and woke up after 2 hours and 40 minutes. What time did
she wake up in 24-hour clock system?

8. The temperature in Nevada at 7:00 a.m. was -6°c. It increased to 4°c. What was the
increase in temperature?

9. Use tallies to represent the quotient of 36 and 3.

10. Study the diagram below and describe the shaded region.

M N

11. A sachet of gorillos weighed 12mg. What is its mass in decagrams?

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12. If today is a Tuesday, what day of the week will it be 48days after tomorrow?

13. Find the sum of 679 and the smallest 3-digit number formed using digits 6, 0, 8.

14. Raymond exercises every 12days and Moses every 8 days. Raymond and Moses both
exercised today. How many days will it be until they exercise together again?

15. Using a ruler, pencil and a pair of compasses only construct the complementary angle of
75°.

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16. In a P.7 class, the ratio of girls to boys is 5:3. If there 24. boys. Find the number of girls
in P.7

17. Express 0.00643 in standard form.

18. A canteen attendant bought 2 dozen of rulers at sh. 24,000. She later sold each ruler at
sh. 1500. How much profit did she make?

19. A car covered a distance of 660cm in five revolutions.

𝟐𝟐
Calculate the diameter of the car wheel. (take 𝜋 = )
𝟕

20. In a basket of apples, 12% of them are rotten and 88 are in good condition.
Find the total number of apples in the basket.

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 SECTION B: 60 MARKS

Answer all questions in this section

Marks for each question are indicated in the brackets

21. At a graduation party, 32 people like Rice only, y people liked both Rice (R) and
Matooke (M), (2y-10) people like Matooke but not Rice, while (y-2) do not like any of
the two foods.
(a) Use the information above to complete the Venn diagram below. (03 Marks)

n(ɛ)

M R

y
........... ...........

..........

(b) Given that those who like Matooke only are more than those who like Rice only by
38, find the value of y. (02 marks)

22. A trader borrowed money from centenary bank at an interest rate 10% per annum for
2years.
(a) How much did he borrow if he paid an interest of sh.84,000? (02 Marks)

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 (b) Calculate the amount he paid after 2 years. (02 Marks)

23. (a) Solve for y: 4(2y+3)31-3(y-1) (03 Marks)

(b) At Rania's 12th birthday her father was 50 years old. After how many years will the
father be thrice as old as the daughter? (03 Marks)

24. Study the diagram below and use the information given to answer the questions that
follow.
A B

n
1120

M D M N

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 (a) Find the value of angle n. (02
marks)

(b) Find the size of angle marked

(02
marks)
(i) BDM

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(ii) of BMN
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25. (a) Convert 18km/hr. to metres per second. (02 Marks)

(b) A bus driver covered a distance of 200km at an average speed of 80km/hr. If he

reached her destination at 4:05p.m., At what time did he start the journey?
(03 Marks)

26. The table shows the rate at which Bamuda forex bureau buys and sells United States
dollars and Kenya shillings in Uganda shillings. Use it to answer questions that follow.
Currency Buying rate Selling rate

1 Us dollar Ug sh 3500 Ug shs 3650

1 ksh Ug sh 30 Ug shs 32

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 (a) Abigail had Ksh. 18250 and bought a fridge using US dollars. How many US dollars
did she pay for the fridge? (03 Marks)

(b) Jason had US dollars 400. He exchanged the dollars for Uganda shillings and
bought a home theater sh. 1,035,000. What was his balance in US dollars?
(03 Marks)

27. Mr. Katiko has a juice tank at his factory as shown below. Study it carefully and use it to
answer questions that follow.
(a) Calculate the capacity of the tank when it is full of juice. (03 Marks)

140cm

400cm

(b) If juice from the tank is packed in 20 litre jerrycans for selling, find the number of
jerrycans which were obtained from the juice tank? (02 Marks)

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28. (a) Convert 223four to base six. (02
Marks)

(b) Work out 123 five × 23 five (03

Marks)

29. The Venn diagram below shows the prime factors of N and 90.

PFN PF90
31
w
21 21 32

(a) Find the value of w. (02

marks)

(b) Find the HCF of N and 90.

(02 marks)

30. Candidates sat for a mathematics test and performed as shown on the table below.

Number of candidates /// / // ///

Marks scored 60 90 40 S

(a) How many candidates sat for the test? (01 mark)

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 (b) If the mean mark was 50, find the value of S. (02 marks)

(c) How many candidates scored above the average mark? (01 mark)

31. (a) Using a ruler, a pencil and a pair of compasses only construct a quadrilateral
MODE inside a circle of radius 3.5cm (04 marks)

(b) Calculate the perimeter of the quadrilateral formed. (02 marks)

32. Below is house plan for Mr. Odongo’s house. Study it carefully and use it to answer the
questions that follow. Roof top 25m

10m
Ring beam
6m D C 6m

A Ground floor Turn Over

B
(a) How high is the top of the roof from the ring beam? (02 marks)

(b) If AB is half of BC, find the total area of the house plan to be constructed.

(04 marks)

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