BRIGHTWAY HILL SCHOOL – BUKESA
Uganda Certificate of Education
Mathematics
Paper 1
TEST ASSESMENT ONE 2025
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
(1ST MARCH 2025)
2 hours 15 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
This paper consists or 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 score.
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 list of formulae may be used.
SECTION A (ATTEMPT ALL ITEMS)
ITEM 1
A factory which produces newspapers in Eastern Uganda spends Shs.1500
to produce a copy of a newspaper and sells it at Shs. 2000 a copy and
managed to sell 1500 copies, the factory has worker who earns a fixed
salary of Sh.20000 per day and commission of 3% on the sale of the day
One-day worker A Reaches home early and sends a child who was sent
back home for fees at the shop to buy 2kg of ice cream. The boy found
the usual shop when it closed and bought to the next shop and he was
given Shs.2700 as balance on Ugandan money Shs.40000 he went with,
when the boy went back home, he gave a demand note to the father
demanding the 45% of the fees which remained on the Shs.750000 (Total
fees)
TASK
i. Determine the percentage profit or loss made by the company
ii. Determine the salary of the workers at the end of the month
iii. How much was 1/4kg of the ice cream.
iv. How much money was paid on reporting day and how much is demand
ITEM 2
A businessman in Mbale is going to produce two types of juice, that
manage juice bottles and that orange juice for sale
He wants to make at least 2 mango juice bottles; he also wants to make
more orange juice bottles than mango juice bottles
Due to the limited time, labour and facilities, he cannot make more than
10 juice bottles. The mango juice bottles are to be sold at 1500/= each
and orange juice battles at 1000/= due to the ingredients added to the
two types of juice, to make a profits, more than. Shs 8000 must be
realized from sales.
TASK
i. How many bottles of the types of juice should the business man like
in order to make maximum profits.
ii. What is the minimum number of bottles of juice he can make and
still makes profit.
SECTION B
PART 1.
ATTEMPT ANY ONE ITEM
ITEM 3
A brad manufacturing industry found in eastern Uganda has run shortage
of workers in the factory due to the increased work at the station, and the
manger intends to recruit a good number of people to work in the factory
and the information given each. Section and the information was given in
the table below
52 36 76 51 62 67
45 49 54 58 53 74
50 80 70 57 64 64
84 71 85 72 78 43
84 72 69 49 66 42
Task .
(a). Giving a reason based on the computation using the collected data,
Determine the suitable number of employees which should be added in
the factory
(b). The manager wishes to know the number of officials which prefer the
employees in each sector to be greater than 60, help him to estimate the
number
ITEM 4
A non-governmental organization aims to teach French, German, and
English to their secondary schools in different communities in Uganda,
they intend to recruit 72 instructors who can teach French, German and
English and during the interviews it was found that 6 instructors teach all
the subjects , 14 teach French only 7 teach German only and 12 teach
English only , those who can teach French where 5 more than those who
can teach German, 28 instructors teach at list 2 subjects and 34
instructors can either teach French or English but not German.
Task
(a) Determine the number of instructors who teach at most one subject.
(b) Apply your mathematical expertise to determine the probability of the
instructors who can at least one subject.
SECTION B
Part 2
Attempt 1 item
ITEM 5
Your brother wants to design a children’s playground. It will have a
triangular garden and a circular fence around the garden. The two sides of
the triangular garden will measure 50 m and 70m, and the angle between
them will be 450.
Your brother also wants to construct a circular fence around the garden
such that the circular fence perfectly touches the three vertices of the
triangular garden.
Your brother intends to put pavers in the region outside the triangular
garden but inside the circular fence. Each square meter of pavers costs
shs35000.
Your brother needs help in identifying the type of triangular garden,
coming up with an accurate design of the playground as well as the cost
of buying the pavers.
Task: Help your brother to;
a) Construct an accurate design of the children playground.
b) Identify the type of triangle represented by the triangular garden and give
reason for your answer.
c) Determine the amount of money needed to buy the pavers.
ITEM 6
In the certain shop found in Mbale city found in eastern Uganda sells the
TV in a
set at 920,000, the manager said that it can be bought in part i.e. deposit
of 60% of the cash price and their payment of equal installment for 5
months/ given that the cash price of the TV set is lower than the hire
purchase value by 20% , if Mutunga . is a worker in the shop who pays the
tax of shs 945600 annually and below is the tax structure of all workers in
the shop
Taxable income shs rate
100,000-250,000 8
250,001-400,000 15
400,001-650,000 20
650,000-900,000 26
900,000 above 35
Each employee is entitled to follow allowances
Transport 2000 per day
Electricity 40,000 per month
Water 258,000 every year
Lunch 10,000 per day
Insurance 28500 per month
Child allowance for only 3 children at the following rates
0-5 years 40,000 each child
6-12 years 25,000 each child
13-15 years 10,000 each child
If Mutunga has 5 children of which 2 are 17 and 18 years, the other
children are 21 years.
Task
(a). Using your mathematics knowledge to determine the percentage of
money which would be saved by buying the Tv set on cash terms other
than hire purchase terms.
(b). Guide Mutunga to know his annual net income and the taxable
incomes.
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