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MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
2025
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2 hours
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Uganda Certificate of Education

MATHEMATICS

Paper 1

2 hours 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 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
Two friends formed a partnership and agreed to deal in animal feeds , Ben contributed
seven hundred and fifty thousand shillings while Carey contributed 𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟗𝟎𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎.
𝟏
They agreed to save of their gross profit in their joint account and further use 𝟐𝟎% of
𝟓

the remainder to buy materials for new products there after share the net profit in the ratio
of their initial contribution.

At the end of their first year of operation they made gross profits amounting to
𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟑, 𝟏𝟔𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 and Carey deposited Bens share on his account but Ben was not sure if
it was the actual amount he was supposed to get so he sought for your help to avoid
biasness.
Ben sent you to withdraw some money from his phone but had forgotten the pin however
he remembered that he had saved it as 𝟏𝟕𝟗 in decimal base which he converts to base
five to get the actual pin.
Task:
(a) Show ben how to determine the actual amount that was to be deposited in his bank
account.
(b) How did you manage to get the actual pin in order to make the withdrawal from
Ben’s phone?
Item 2
At the beginning of the term your school welfare department had stocked enough food for
its enrollment of 2068 students for the 91 days of the term, but in the second week of the
term they were told that the school had received 376 new students and they do not know
how long the food will last so one of the teachers asked the s4 students to help them solve
their puzzle in order to plan well.
The geography department wants to take the candidates for a tour but each is required to
pay and so far they have 336 students who have paid for the trip but more are promising to
pay on the day they are to go however the teacher in charge wants to plan for their
transport, he plans to hire some buses and coasters from a transport company ,he has been
told that a bus can carry 56 students while a coaster can carry 28 students ,each bus costs
𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟓𝟎𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 while each coaster costs 𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟐𝟓𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎, he wants to use at least 4
coasters but there are 10 drivers available at the company on that day , the teacher wants
to minimize the cost of transport but can not decide how to do it.

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Task:
(a) How would you determine the number of days the food will last?
(b) (i) Write down the mathematical inequalities and expressions to show the above
information.
(ii) Using your mathematical skills determine the possible combination of buses
and coasters that the teacher can hire so as to minimize transport cost and
find this minimum cost.
(iii) Determine the number of vehicles of each type that can be hired so as to
maximize the number of students transported and find this greatest number.
SECTION B
This section has two parts; I and II
Part I
Answer one item from this part
Item 3.
A certain district a temporary bridge that is used over a certain section of a small river
however the engineers want to build a stronger bridge that can carry more weight so they
asked the area leaders to do a study showing the average weight of the mass that uses the
bridge and the mass of the majority of people using it so they can determine the new
materials to be used. The leaders decided to carry out a research where they randomly chose
and measured the mass of each person with their property for 30 people who passed on that
bridge that day. Their masses are shown below they need to summarize the data but don’t
know how.
60 50 45 57 51 41
80 77 48 98 49 58
53 46 36 63 61 32
74 93 78 66 42 75
38 55 58 66 60 83
Task:
(a) Using your mathematical skills show the leaders how to determine the
average mass for the data they collected.
(b) Estimate the mass of majority of users of the bridge.
(c) What maximum mass would you advise the leaders to consider when choosing the
materials for making the new bridge and why.

Item 4
Your uncle is an agricultural officer and has advised farmers in the village to grow some
other crops to boost their income, these food crops include melons, cassava and pumpkin
because they are bought at higher prices. In the next planting season 120 farmers decided
to grow at least one of the crops.
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62 farmers decided to plant pumpkins, 83 planted melons and 60 planted cassava. 20
planted pumpkins and cassava, 30 planted pumpkins and melons while 40 decided to plant
melons and cassava. 18 families planted melons only. The officer wants to order for
pesticides that will be used when in need and to get for them a collective market so that
they will gain more from their harvest so he needs to summarize the data
Task
(a) As a mathematics student help your uncle to summarize the data using a suitable
drawing.
(b) If a farmer is to be selected at random from the village, what is the chance that he
will need pesticides for at least two crops.
Part II
Answer one item from this part

Item 5
Davis was given a job at a crafts workshop, his first assignment was to make 100 lamp
shades for bedside lamps with the diameters 5cm and 7cm for the upper and lower circular
parts respectively, the slant height is required to be 8cm. The lamps are supposed to be
placed ¾ way along the vertical height of the lampshade, he needs to determine the least
amount of material that he needs to make one lamp shade so as to determine the cost for the
whole job.

At the shop they sell each lampshade at 𝑼𝑮𝑿 𝟑𝟓𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 but can give a discount of 5% if
one is paying cash or one can pay 𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟏𝟎𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 cash and then pay the rest in 4 monthly
installments of 𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟖𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 each.

Task:
(a) (i) You are required help to show Davis to determine the position of the lamp
as instructed.
(ii) Help Davis to determine the least amount of material that will be needed for
one lampshade.
(b) Which option would you use if you wanted to buy a lampshade and why.

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Item 6.
Your aunt has started a baking business and she wants to make a new cake base that will
be in a pentagon shape, its sides must be of equal length of 𝟒𝒄𝒎 the cake base will be cut
from a circular piece of cardboard, so she asks you to accurately draw for her the cake
base.
The first customer to order for the new design asked for 10 cakes, each was priced at
𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟏𝟓𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎, the production cost per cake is 𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟏𝟎𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 but has promised the client
a discount of 𝟐% ,she is also required to pay tax on sales of 𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 for every
𝑼𝑮𝑿. 𝟏𝟎, 𝟎𝟎𝟎 she earns from her sales, there after she deposits the rest in the bank ,she
needs your help to determine how much she will have to deposit in the bank when the client
pays.
Task:
(a) Show accurately how you would draw the edges of the new cake base.
(b) As a student of mathematics show your aunt how to determine the amount of
money that she needs to deposit on her bank account.
END

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