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MATHEMATICS

Paper 1

April, 2025

1.5 hours

Uganda Certificate of Education

MATHEMATICS

Paper 1

1 hour 30 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

This paper consists of two sections; A and B. it has four examination items

Section A has one compulsory item

Section B has two parts; I and II. Answer one item from each part

Answer three 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

Answer all items in this section

A woman whose husband lives abroad has been sent money for their two
children with instructions on how to spend the money. She has received
two million three hundred and eighty thousand shilling only with 40% to be
used for the son’s fees and ½ of the remainder on the daughter’s fees, ugx
100,000 is to be used for transport to school and the rest given to the
children for their shopping. She has asked you for help on how to allocate
the money as instructed but she decided that she would give the children
their total amount for them to shop for what they want.
Of the children, the girl asks her brother that they should play a game
where the winner will get 3 parts while the loser gets 2 parts of the
shopping money. The girl has her card with the number 7 and asks the
brother to randomly pick a card out of five cards each with digits in binary
base. He is required to convert the number on his card to decimal base. If
his number turns out to be greater than that of her sister then he wins. The
boy picks a card with the number 1101.
Task
(a) Show how you can help the woman to determine the different amount
as she has been instructed.
(b) Who of the children will get the most amount of pocket money and how
much will it be?
SECTION B
Part I
Answer one item from this part
Item 2

The headteacher of Jinja Modern SS is thinking of how he can boost the mathematics
department of your school. He can either add another teacher or buy more books or
both. He has decided that he will do both if the average performance of this year’s
performance for the 50 students is lower than that of the previous which was 64. He
asked the department to give a test and these were the student’s marks.
86 30 26 64 87 47 49 26 43 25
45 38 44 56 59 52 76 27 89 46
90 57 73 48 58 89 51 32 56 88
66 62 52 67 69 68 49 92 66 95
 54 74 32 39 35 36 69 50 71 92
He also visited the library and found out that previous candidates used three books for
their revision; Longhorn, Baroque or Math Clinic. From the Librarian’s records it is
clear that those who did not use any books failed the subjects greatly. Out of the 50
candidates this year 13 used Longhorn, 20 used Baroque and 17 used Math Clinic. 9
used Longhorn and Math Clinic, 3 used Longhorn and Baroque while 8 used Baroque
and Math Clinic only. The records show that 2 used all the three books.
He observed that he should replace one book type of the three with Fountain Publisher
since no student read it only alone.
Tasks
a) (i) Help the headteacher group the marks to make an informed
decision on the fate of the department and defend it.
(ii) Display the students’ marks in groups on a simple statistics diagram.
b) (i) Help the headteacher identify the book he should replace and
explain why
(ii) Find the probability that a student selected from the class failed.
Part I1
Answer one item from this part
Item 3
A community is planning to construct a tower on top of a hill. The base of
the hill is located at a distance of meters from point A. The angle of
elevation from point A to the top of the hill is 50°, and the angle of
elevation from point A to the top of the tower is 60°. The community has
set a safety requirement that the height of the tower should not exceed 50
meters for stability reasons.
The community seeks your help in calculating the height of the tower
based on the given angles of elevation and the distance to the hill, and
would like your advice on whether the tower can be constructed safely
according to the stability requirement.
TASK:
Help advise the community whether the tower can be built safely according
to the safety requirement.

Item 4
Joshua is tasked to take company goods from a factory to three trading
Centers. The car is going to use has 20 liters and it uses 1 liter of fuel for
every 15 km. He left the factory to the first trading Centre which is 70 km
away on a bearing of N60𝑜E. He then move eastwards at an average speed
of 60 km/hr. for 30 minutes to the second trading Centre. From this Centre
he took a bearing of 200𝑜 and move a distance of 50 km to the third
trading Centre.
At this centre he was shown a direct- route that would take him back to the
factory but was not sure whether the remaining fuel in the car was enough
for the journey since he did not know the distance.
Task:
(a) Help Joshua to determine;
(b) The distance of the direct-route from the third trading center to the
factory.
(c) Whether the remaining fuel in the car will be enough for journey using
the direct- route.