S.2 Mathematics Questions For Revision
S.2 Mathematics Questions For Revision
2. Simplify: ⅙ + ⅟9
3. Find the next number in the sequence
. 29, 18, 11, 6, 3,
4. Atim bought a dress at 80,000 /= and sold it at 100,000/=. What was his
percentage profit?
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
12. Work out: 13 X 4
14. Find the value of (2.5 x 8.5) + (2.5 x 1.5), using distributive property only
15. .If Agatha closes her eyes and picks up a potato from a bag. What is the chance
of picking a potato of weight 7kg given that each potato in the bag weighs 2kg?
16. The exterior angle of a regular polygon is 30o. How many sides has the polygon?
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17. Draw a perpendicular bisector of the line below.
18. A football match between Cranes and Eagles was played from 4.30pm to 6.15.
How long did the match last?
19. Birakwate deposited shs. 80,000 in Stanbic Bank Mpigi Branch, which offers an
interest of 9% p.a. How much interest did he receive from the bank after 6
months?
23. Mututu’s car uses 5 litres of petrol every 25km. How much money will he spend
on petrol for a 2ookm journey if petrol costs shs. 1800/= per litre?
25. Simplify: -3 + -8
29. Given that set A = {a, b, c, d}. How many subsets has it got?
30. How many liters of paraffin can be obtained from a jerrican of 5000cm3?
SECTION B
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a ) Represent the information on a Venn diagram.
c) Find the probability of picking a pupil who likes at least two subjects
33 Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct a triangle ABC where AB=6cm, BC=8cm
and AC=7cm. Drop a perpendicular line from C to meet AB at D.
a. Measure the length DC
b. Calculate the area of triangle ABC.
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34 Boatman sailed from Island P heading to island Q which is East of P and 12km
away, then he continued on bearing 135o to island R 8km away.
a. Using a scale of 1cm to represent 2km, construct the route of a
boatman.
b. Find the shortest distance between P and R.
c. Find the bearing of R from P.
35 The table shows Wendell’s shopping bill. Use it to answer questions that follow
36 The table below shows the height of various children in P.7 class in feet.
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39 a. Using a pair of compasses and ruler only construct a triangle KLM with line
KL = 7cm, angle LKM = 45o and KM = 6cm
(10k – 4) cm
3k cm
(6k + 8) cm
a Find the value of k
b Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle.
41 Mr Ofwono is a cook at a certain school and earns a salary of 96,000/=. The pie
chart below shows how he spends his monthly salary.
42 A man shared sh.15,000 among his three children Joweria, Jaria and Halima such
that Joweria gets sh.1500 more than Jaria and Halima gets sh.3000 less than Joweria.
How much does each get?
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REVISION PAPER TWO
SECTION A
M 140o
100o
7. Jenny received 4,000/= from her daddy. If Lucy received 2,500/= more than Jenny,
how much did they get altogether?
8. Work out: x5 X x3
x6
9. A box contains 36 green and blue pens. If the probability of picking a green pen at
random is 1/3. How many blue pens are there?
11. Musa is x years old. His father is 20 years older than him. In five years’ time,
the father will be twice as old as Musa. How old is the father now?
16. There are 15 goats and 10 more cows than goats on Mukisa’s farm. How many
animals are there on the farm?
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17. Calculate the value of p in the figure below.
3p
2p 1200
21 cm
20. Solve: ¾ x = 24
23. Calculate the simple interest on shs. 90,000/= banked for 3 years at a rate of 6% per
year.
24. Solve: ⅔ x – 2 = 6
26. An English lesson which lasted for 1 ½ hours ended at 1.00pm. At what time did
the lesson start?
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SECTION B.
31 In the diagram below, PQR is an isosceles triangle. Study carefully and answer
the questions that follow P
(7x + 15)m (35 + 3x)m
Q (8x + 20)m R
a) calculate the perimeter of the triangle PQR
32 rectangle has sides 20cm long by 15cm wide. If the length is increased by 40%
and the width decreased by 20%. Find the percentage increase or decrease in the
area.
33 Study the figure below and answer the questions that follow
14 cm
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35 The diagram shows a triangular prism
A E
B F
X cm C D
36 Study the Venn diagram below and answer the questions that follow:
F60
Fx
21
31 22
a. find x
b. find Y
c. find the LCM of x and 60.
37 The table below shows the marks scored by a P.7 class at Wefene Primary
School. Use it to answer the questions that follow.
Marks 75 30 25 35
No. of pupils 2 4 1 3
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38 The perimeter of the figure below is 46 cm.
2x – 18
x+4
a. Find the value of x
b. Find:
i. the length
ii. the width
c. Calculate its area.
39 A shop keeper bought 25 kg of salt at ahs. 10,000/=. He sold the salt at shs.600
per kg.
a Find the total amount he got from the sale of the salt.
b Calculate his profit after he had sold all the salt
c What was his percentage profit?
d How many more sweets did Najjemba get than Shamusa?
40 Mr. Omaido went to the market and bought various items as shown by the table
below:
ITEM COST PER ITEM QUANTITY AMOUNT PAID
Meat Shs2400 3kg (i)
Rice Shs900 (ii) Shs1800
Tomatoes (iii) 0.5kg Shs600
Onions Shs600 1 ½ kg (iv)shs
a. Complete the table
b. If he went with shs20000, find is balance.
c. Find his percentage expenditure.
41 A motorist covered part of the journey in 3 hours at a speed of 70km/hr. The rest
of the journey was covered in 2 hours at a speed of 60km/hr. Find the average
speed of the motorist for the whole journey.
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42 The figure below is of a rectangle.
(2x + 8) cm
(x + 4) cm
(x + 9) cm
a Find the value of x.
b Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle
c What is the area of the rectangle?
4. Mr. Mulongo was driving at a speed of 120km/hr. What distance did he cover in
10 minutes?
5. A primary school has a population of 576 pupils, if there are 12 classrooms, how
many pupils are in each classroom.
6. Given that the perimeter of the figure ABCD is 28cm. Find the length CD.
C 8 cm B
3 cm
D A
12 cm
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8. Use the figure below to answer the questions that follow
750
(X + 20)0
Find x.
9. If a = b = 2. Evaluate ab + b2.
15. Two similar cubes have their volumes in the ratio 2:3. If the volume of the smaller
cube is 32cm2, calculate the volume of the larger one.
154°
19. Nalwanga collapsed after running ¾ of the race. If she was to cover a distance of
3,000 metres, what distance did she cover?
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21. Work out: 0.24 X 0.81
0.036
23. A bicycle has a marked price of shs.120,000 in a shop. However it was sold on a
cash at 20% discount. Find how much was paid for the bicycle
27. Express a speed of 20 metres per second into kilometers per hour.
115°
29. Find the volume of a cylinder whose radius is 14cm and height 11cm.
(take Π = 22/7)
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SECTION B.
31 The figure below represents a net of a prism. Study it carefully and answer the
questions that follow
32 bus drive drove at 60km/hr for 1 ½ hours, then he realized he was slow, so he
changed the speed to 80km/hr to cover the remaining distance of 360 km.
a. How long did he take on this journey?
b. Calculate his average speed for the whole journey.
33 The post office charges sh.5,000 basic fee every month on every private telephone
User and: -
a. Sh.400 per minute for a telephone call within Uganda
b. Sh.2,500 per minute for a telephone call outside Uganda . How much does
someone pay the post office after a month if he makes 17-five minute calls
within Uganda and 4-four minute calls outside Uganda every month?
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34 If the ratio of the interior to the exterior angles of a regular polygon is 5:1.
b. Calculate the value of the interior angle.
c. What name do you give this polygon?
35 Using a pair of compasses and a ruler only, construct a triangle XYZ in which
XY = 4cm, YZ = 8cm, <XYZ = 120o. Measure length XZ
36 In a club of 40 people, 24 play Hockey (H), 17 Volley ball (V), 8 play both
Hockey and Volley ball.
a. Represent the information on a Venn diagram
b. Find the value y.
b. How many play only one type of game.
2q + 200
3q q + 104
2x + 30 3x – 10
38 a. There are three streams in a class with 24, 30 and 36 pupils respectively. Find
the least number of books that each class can share without any remainder.
c.How many books will each pupil get in the stream of 30 pupils?
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c Find the number of pupils who like only one subject.
d If a child won a prize for excelling in the termly exams, what is the
probability that the winning child like Kiswahili?
40 By using a pair of compasses and a ruler only, construct a triangle PQR in which
PQ = 8cm , <P = 30o and <Q = 45o
Measure: (a) PRQ (b) L e n g t h QR.
41 In the figure below, find the area of the unshaded triangle PXZ.
X
20 cm
Y 8 cm Z 4 cm P
SECTION A
1. The average height of 4 children is 110cm. if one of them is 140cm, calculate the
average height of the remaining children.
3. Express 20 cm as a percentage of 50 cm
4. The Venn diagram shows the number of the children who eat meat (M) and fish (F).
Find the number of children who eat only one type of sauce.
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5. Convert 12ten to binary system
6. Brenda slept at 8:45pm for 8 ½ hours. What time did she wake up?
7. Factorise completely: 4x2y – 2xy
6m
3m
8m
3m
9. Simplify: 638 + 62
14. Six books cost 4,800/=. How many such books will be bought with 16,000/= at the
same rate?
15. Express 50g as a ratio of 1kg
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23. In the Venn diagram, shade Y – X
X Y
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24. On the grid below, plot A (-3, -2)
1
-4 -3 -2 -1
0 1 2 3 4 5
-1
-2
-3
-4
25. Given that set B = . How many proper subsets has set B?
26. Peter walked 0.15km. What distance did he cover in metres?
27. Charles deposited 200,000/ in Stanbic Bank for 2 years at an interest rate of 5% per
year. What interest did he get after 2 years?
SECTION B ( 70 MARKS)
31. In a video hall which attracted 48 boys, 30 of them supported Man U (M), x
supported Arsenal (A) only, 4 supported both teams while two did not support any of the
teams.
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32. The table below shows the marks scored by a group of pupils in a maths test.
f x
34. Using a ruler, a pair of compasses and a pencil only, construct a triangle ABC in
which AB = 8cm, angle CAB = 30° and angle ABC = 90°
Measure (i) AC
(ii) \
35. A tank has two taps that pour water into it. Tap A turned on alone and fills that
tank in 20 minutes. Tap B turned on alone fills the tank in 10 minutes.
a. How long will the two taps turned on at the same time take to fill the tank?
b. If both pour 36 litres of water per minute, what amount of water will the
tank hold when full?
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Us $ = Ug Shs 1850
K sh 1 = Ug Shs 250
37. 49cm
10cm 8cm
km away at 9.30am.
40. Find the range of the scoThe table represents how Mr. Muloki spends his salary.
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41. A school uses two bells which ring at intervals of 30 minutes, 40 minutes
respectively. The bells first ring together at 8:30am. When will they ring together again?
42a. On the grind below, plot the following co-ordinates: J (0,0), K (+2, +2), L
(5,0), M (+2,-2).
- - - - - 0 1 2 3 4 5
5 4 3 2 1 -
1
-
2
-
3
-
4
SECTION A
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5. Find the size of angle K.
55o
K
6. Work out the sum of the value of 7 and 8 in 4789
7. Set R = {2, 4, 6, 8} and set Q = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7}. Find n(RUQ)
8. 1. Obama deposited shs. 720,000 in a bank which given a simple interested rate of
4% per annum. Find his interest after 9 months.
9. Write 194 in Roman numerals
+
10. Simplify: 2--3
11. Change 1011two to base ten
12. A motorist covered 90 km in 1 hour and 30 minutes. Calculate the average speed
of the motorist
13. Namara borrowed shs. 50,000 from a bank which charges a simple interest of
18% per year. How much interest will she pay after two years?
14. Six men can do a piece of work in 12 days. How many men will do the same job
in 8 days working at the same rate?
15. In a box there are 5 blue buttons and 7 red ones. What is the probability of picking
a red button at random?
16. Work out 3 – 5 = ................................. (finite 6)
17. Divide 327 by 3
18. Add: 213 + 64 =
19. Simplify: -6 - -6 =
20. Work out the range of 5, -1, -9, 4 and 1
21. Study the sequence and find the next number: , , ,
22. Find the circumference of a circle whose diameter is 14
23. Solve for X: 6 3X 15
24. Increase 900 in the ratio of 3:2
25. Using a ruler, a pencil and a pair of compasses, construct an angle of 45°.
26. Find the mean of a, a + 2, a + 1
27. Today is Tuesday. What day of the week will it be after 40 days?
28. Find the sides of a square whose area is 3 1/16 cm2
29. Divide 2727 by 3.
30. In a class of 20 pupils, 3 are girls. Express the ratio of boys to girls in the class.
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SECTION B
31.a Solve: x – 1 = 2x + 5
32. In a class of 60 children, 25 take both milk (M) and porridge (P), 40 take
porridge, x take milk only and 3 of them take neither of the foods.
M P
34. Tendo went to Baredene super market and made the following purchases:
35. Using a ruler, a pair of compasses and a pencil only. Construct a square ABCD of
length 4cm.
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36. A packing industry packs tins of type A in boxes of type B shown below.
A 10cm B 22cm
14cm
7cm 21cm
f. How many tins of A can be packed in box B.
g. Find the volume of the packing material to be filled in the empty space.
(b) If today is Tuesday. What day of the week will it be after 92 days from now
38. Joseph sweeps ¼ of a compound, Milly sweeps ⅗ of the same compound and
Susan sweeps the rest.
39. A man left his home at 7.00am riding a bicycle and arrived at his place of work 25
km away at 9.30am.
a. Find his average speed.
b. If he left his place of work at 5.00pm, riding at an average speed of
15km per hr, at what time did he get home?
40. Study the Venn diagram below ad answer the questions that follow:
FX F16
21
22
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41. Tap P can fill a tank in 4 minutes. Tap Y can fill the same tank in 6 minutes.
How long can both taps take to dill the same tank working the same rate?
b) 12 men take 4 days to paint a certain building. How many men can paint the
same building in 6 days when working at the same rate?
(p + 3) cm
p cm
(3p – 7) cm
a) Find the value of p in cm
SECTION A
1. Solve ⅗ (x + 2) = 6
2. Work out: 164 + 23
3. Write in words: 40884
4. Ronnie scored the following marks In darts competition: 7, 6, 5, 8, 9, 4, 6. What
was his range mark?
5. What number has been expanded
(7x 101) + (8 x 100) + (5 x 10-1) + (6 x 10-2)
7m
28m
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7. Using a pair of compasses, pencil and ruler only, construct an angle of 135o in the
space provided
Work out the value of the third angle from the figure above.
9. Solve 4x – 8 = 2x
10. Find the square root of 1.96
11. Calculate the mean of 8x, 9, 11 and 4x
14. 1An article was bought at 15,000/= and was sold at 18,000/=. Find the percentage
profit made.
15. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct an angle of 45o.
16. At a party, there were 714 guests. The ratio of men to women was 4:3
respectively. How many men attended the party?
17. The bearing of Bubaare from Nyabuhoro is 075o. What is the bearing of
Nyabuhoro from Bubaare
18. Given that A = 2, 3, 4, 5, B = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 Find n(B)
19. Work out: 101two + 11two
20. Find the least number that is exactly divisible by 9 and 12 leaving a remainder of
2.
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21. Ogwal scored 35 marks out of 175 marks. Express his score as a percentage.
22. Simplify: (3X + 5) – (X – 1)
23. Use distributive property to work out: (4.3 x 3) + (5.7 x 3)
24. Find the size of angle X
2X 111°
25. Solve 3P + 4 = 13
5 cm
10 cm
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SECTION B (70 MARKS)
1. In a class of 20 pupils, two languages are spoken. 14 speak Luganda (L), 15 speak
Kiswahili (K).
0.09
b) Work out: + of
33. The table shows the marks scored by some pupils in a series of tests in a class”
Marks scored 3 8 7 9 6
No. of pupils 4 2 5 1 3
34. A taxi to Jinja town travels at an average speed of 50kph for 100km and then
another 80 kph for 120km and then another 80kph for 120km. Find the average speed
for the whole journey.
35. Hannah went shopping with shs. 20,000 and bought items as shown in the table
below:
b) If she was given a discount of 20%, how much did she pay?
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36. Using a pair of compasses and a ruler only, construct triangle ABC in which
b. Measure BC.
c. Angle CBA
37. Use the figure below to answer the questions that follow.
(2X + 2)cm
(9 – X)cm
(X + 5)cm
a. Find the value of x
38. Ben spends ⅔ of his income on food and ⅕ of the remainder on rent and saves
the rest. If he saves shs. 44,800, find Ben’s income.
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40. Given that y = 2x – 1
X 0 1 2 3 4 5
Y -1 1
b) Plot the points given in the above table on the graph below:
12
10
1
- - - - -
5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
-
1
-
2
-
3
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(b) Give the possible solution set for the inequality in (a) above.
42. Maria distributed shs. 600,000 among her daughters. Mary, Jane and Janet in
the ratio of 2:3:5 respectively.
SECTION A
1.Simplify: -2 - -6
2.Add: 9/11 + 2/3
3.Evaluate 2n2 of n = 5
4.Write 700,070 in words
5.Calculate the mean of 8x, 9, 11 and 4x
6.What is the GCF of 8 and 15?
7. Work out: 0.5 x 1.2
8. The chart below shows the number of books in P5 class which has three streams.
P5 N
P5 P
P5 S
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How many books are in the P5 class altogether, if each represents 50
books?
9. Find the value of x if 34x = 19ten.
10.Evaluate:
11. Work out: 2(3q – 4) = 16
12. Change XLIX to Hindu Arabic numerals
13.Simplify: -9 + 4
The cost of 3 books is sh 2,400. Find the cost of 8 similar books
14. Odoi covered a distance of 60 km in 2 hours. Calculate the speed at which he moved.
15. Given that n = -3, find the value of 4n2
16.Shade Set P in the diagram below:
17.A school uses 215 boxes of chalk in a term. How many boxes will it use in 3 terms? P
18.A school uses 215 boxes of chalk in a term. How many boxes will it use in 3 terms?
19.Find the area of the figure below in cm2
6m
4m
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20.Find the perimeter of the figure below:
11 cm 12 cm
10 cm
21.Express 123five in decimal system
22.Simplify: ½ - ¼ + ⅔
23.The average age of 6 men is 37 years. If one of them is 42 years, calculate the age of
the other 5 men.
24.Add: 469 + 531
25.Change 4 ½ kg into
grams 26Work out: 14 + 6
X3
27. Increase 144 by 54
28. Write “seventeen thousand six hundred twenty” in figures.
29.Divide 16032 ÷ 8
30. The area of a square is 144dm2. Calculate the perimeter of the square.
SECTION B
31. In a class of 72 pupils, 11 pupils like both mirinda (M) and pepsi (P), 6 pupils like
neither mirinda nor pepsi. If X pupils like mirinda only and 40 pupils like pepsi ;
a) Show the above information on a venn diagram.
How many pupils like only one type of brand
32. Using a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil only, construct a parallelogram ABCD
in which AB = 8cm, BC = 4cm and angle ABC 120°
b) Measure diagonal BD
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33. In a P6 class of 60 pupils, 40 belong to Holy Childhood Club (H), 30 belong to
Environmental Club (E) while y pupils belong to both clubs and 5 belong to neither of the
clubs.
a) Represent the information above on a Venn diagram
b) How many pupils belong to both clubs?
C) If a pupil is picked at random, what is the probability that he belongs to Holy
Childhood club only?
34.A wheel of diameter 70cm is rolled along a path at a speed of 20 revolutions per
minute.
a) Calculate the distance it covers in one revolution. (Take π = 22/7).
b) How far in kilometers does it go in one hour?
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38. Given the equation 2x = y – 1. Complete the blank space in the table.
X -2 ………… 0 ………… ½ ………….
Y ………… -1 1 3 ………. 7
39.A father gave put 135,000/= as pocket money to his 3 sons;
John, Moses and Peter on the ratio 2:3:4
a. How much money sis each get
b. What percentage of the amount was received by Moses?
c. The sum of 3 consecutive odd numbers is 99. What are the numbers?
d. Find the sum of the first number and the third number.
40. Mr. Kawuku spends his monthly salary as follows: Food - 448,000/=, Fees - 42,000/=,
Leisure - 18,000 and Transport - 36,000/=. Draw an accurate pie chart of radius 5 cm to
show the above information
41. Tap A can fill a tank in 4 hours. Tap B can fill the same tank in 3 hours, while tap C
can empty the same tank in 6 hours. How long will it take the 3 taps to fill that very tank
if they are opened at the same time?
42. The figure below is a rectangle, use the information give to:
a) Find the value of x
b) Calculate the area
c) Work out the perimeter.
(3x – 1) cm
2x cm
(2x + 1) cm
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REVISION PAPER EIGHT
SECTION A
1. Express 600 grammes to kilogrammes
2.Express 25% as a simplified ratio.
3.Solve: 3x – 5 = 22
4. By selling a cow for 320,000/=, James made a profit of 80,000/=. Calculate his cost
price.
5. From the Venn diagram below, list all members of set K
T
K
2
8
5
6. At what speed should Mr Kigingo drive his car if he is to cover a distance of two
hundred kilometres in two hours and thirty minutes?
7. If the angles (x + 20)°and (x – 40)° are complementary, find x.
8.Simplify: 23 x 22 x 2.
9.Calculate the number of proper subsets Set R has if R = {a, e, i, o, u}
10.Divide 1 ÷ 5 = (Mod 7)
11.Simplify: ½ of ¼ + ¾
12.Add: 3.2 + 2.9
13. Find the value of a in the figure below:
2a 80°
14. Find the square root of 0.25
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15. The radius of a circle is 9 cm. what is the length of its diameter?
16. The headmistress gave 105 pens to 5 pupils to share equally. How many pens did each get?
28. Work out the range of the following integers: +4, 6, -1, 0 and -9
29.Shade (PnQ)I
30. Round off 25.98 to the nearest tenth.
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SECTION B
lower section and upper section. They ring in intervals of 30 minutes, 40 minutes and 50
minutes respectively.
a. After how many minutes will all the three bells ring together?
b. If they ring at 10:00am, when will they ring together again?
37. Using a ruler, a pencil and a pair of compasses only, construct a triangle MTN in which
TN = 4.5cm , MTN = 120o and TNM = 30o.
38. In a school, there are 600 pupils with 20% more boys than girls.
a. What percentage are the girls?
b. Find the number of boys in the school.
c. Express the number of boys as a ratio to the number of girls.
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39. The table below shows marks obtained by some pupils in a class. Use it to answer questions
that follow.
Marks 40 50 60 80
No. of pupils 4 2 3 1
x
130°
2. Given that 3 < y ≤ 8, write down all possible values of y that can make the statement
true
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3. Change 1011two to decimal base
4. Calculate the square of 2 ¼
5. Increase 1800 in the ratio 5:2
6. Solve: Z/2 – 4 = 7
7. Using a pair of compasses, a pencil and a ruler only, construct an angle of 135°.
8. Calculate the radius of a circle whose circumference is 132cm. (use 22/7)
9. Given that M = -4 and P = 3, evaluate MP ÷ M
10. Joseph traveled at a speed of 40k.p.h. from 10.00 am to 10.15 am. What distance did
he cover?
11. Convert 25six to octal base
12. Solve: 4(x + 1) = 64
13. Solve the equation:2x + 4 = 16
14. Given that Set A = {a, b, c, d, e} find the number of sub sets in Set A
15.What is 2/3 of 240 mangoes?
16.If Ŏ represents 30 tomatoes, how many tomatoes are represented by ŎŎŎŎ?
17.What number when divided by either 9 or s leaves no remainder?
18. Expand 2,346 using values.
19. The average of 3 numbers is 12. Find their total.
20.Round off 48.37 to the nearest tenths.
21.Remove the brackets and simplify: 6(m + 2) + 3(m +1)
22.Find the GCF of 12 and 18.
23. Solve for y in the equation: 3(y + 2) + 2 (y – 1) = 6
24. There are 392 pupils in a school. If 2/7 of them are boys and the rest are girls,
how many girls are there?
25. Multiply:7.1 by 0.4
26. Simplify:
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SECTION B
31. Kalema bought 2kg of sugar at shs. 3F each. He also bought a kilo of salt at
shs. (F + 200). If he paid shs. 3,700;
a) Find F
b) How much did he pay for the sugar?
32. Three sisters Clara, Dinnah and Faith shared Shs. 48,000 in the ratio 3:4:5
respectively.
a) How much did each get?
b) If Faith gave 1/5 of her money to Clara, how much will Clara have in
total?
33. Plot the points A (-2, 2), B (2, 2), C (-2, -3) and D (2 -3) on a grid b) Join the plotted
co-ordinates and name the figure c) Find the area to the figure (given that 1sq : 1 cm)
34.The diagram below shows a rectangular garden whose measurements are as indicated:
(P + 6) m
(P + 4)
(3P - 4) m
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35. Below is an isosceles triangle.
(y + 10o)
(y + 40o) q
Work out:
a. value of y
b. size of the angle q in degrees.
36. The cost price of 100kg bag of rice is sh.200,000.
a. At what price must a trader sell each kilogram in order to a make a profit
of 10%.
b. What was his total profit after selling the bag of rice?
37. In P.6 class of 50 pupils, 30 like Maths (M), 22 like English (E), y like both subjects
and 3 do not like any of the two subjects.
a. Represent the above information on a Venn diagram
b. Find the value of y
c. What is the probability that a pupil chose to lead the class likes only one
subject?
38. The perimeter of a rectangle is 30cm, if its width is 5cm, calculate its:
a. Length
b. Area
39. A Gaso coach is travelling at a speed of 60km/hr left Masaka at 8.00am and reached
Mpigi at 11.00am. It then continued to Kampala at a speed of 80km/hr for 2 hrs.
a. Find the total distance from Masaka to Kampala
Calculate the average speed of the coach for the whole journey
40. Zziwa spends 2/5 of his salary on rent, ½ of the remainder on feeding and he saves
sh. 60,000. How much is his monthly salary?
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41. Using a ruler pencil and a pair of compasses only, construct a triangle XYZ in which
XZY = 45o and YZ = 5.5cm.
a) Measure length XY
b) Measure length XZ
42. The table below shows marks scored by pupils in a Mathematics test. Use it to answer
questions that follow:
Marks scored 50 70 60 80
Number of 2 1 4 3
pupils
a) How many pupils sat for the test?
b) Find the range mark
c) Calculate the mean mark
65° 123°
7. Simplify: 2k – 6p – 4k + 2p
8. Namusoke’s age is LVII. What is her age in Hindu – Arabic numerals.
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9. Find the square root of 111/25.
11. Using a ruler, pencil and a pair of compasses only, construct an angle of 75o.
12. Calculate the circumference of a circle (Take )
7dm
13. Find the range of the following; 30, -20, 40, 60 and 20.
14. A school van travelling at a speed of 45km/hr left Entebbe at 9:30a.m.and reached
Kamuli Boys Primary School at 1:00pm. Find the distance between Entebbe and
the school.
15. A basket has 15 paw paws of which of which 10 paw paws are ripe. If a pawpaw
is picked at random, what is the probability of picking a ripe one?
16. Judith uses 1kg 250gm of sugar daily. How much sugar does she use in a week?
17. Given that set Y = {3, 5, 7,9} and Set X = {2, 4, 6}. Find set (X Y)
30 cm
21 cm
35 cm
22. The bearing of Mukono from Mbale is 259o. What is the bearing of Mbale from
Mukono?
23. What is the complement of 84o ?
24. A news vendor sold 200 copies of New Vision at shs 1000 each copy. If he was
given 10% commission. How much did he get as commission?
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25. How many lines of symmetry has an equilateral triangle?
26. What is the next number in the sequence: 4, 10, 6, 12, 8, 14, 10, 16,
27. A trader bought a bull at 300,000/= and he sold it at 450,000/=. What was his
percentage profit?
28. Four cocks cost shs. 100,000. What is the cost of 6 cocks?
29. Find the median of the following: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 4, 9.
30. Find the square root of 9.
SECTION B
31. In a class of 55 pupils, 40 pupils eat Fish (F), 15 like both Fish and Meat (M). Given
that P pupils like meat only and 5 hate both foods.
a) Complete the Venn diagram:
F M
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32. David scored the following marks in a series of Prime tests 30, 20, 70, 60, 20, 70 and
20. Study the marks and work out the:-
(a)Modal mark
(b) Median mark
(c) Mean mark
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34. Lydia had shs. 50,000 and she went to the market and bought the following items in
the table shown.
(a) Complete the table
Item Price Total cost
3 kg of meat Shs. 3,500 per kg Shs................................
2 ½ kg of rice Shs. ..................... per kg Shs. 5000
................litre of milk Shs. 800 per littre Shs. 4800
3 loaves of bread Shs. 1500 per loaf Shs..................................
EXPENDITURE Shs..................................
(b) If she was given a 5% discount on her bill, how much did she pay?
(c) How much money was she left with?
38. A bus covered a distance of 216 km between town A and town B in 3 hours.
(a) What was the speed of the bus in km/hr?
(b) Express the bus’ speed above in metres per second.
39. Bushingye deposited shs. 240,000 in Bank of Africa which offered a simple interest
rate of 5% per annum.
(a) How was her interest after 8 months?
(b) What was her amount after that period of 8 months?
40. Given that the existing exchange rates are. US $ 1 = Ug Shs 1640
K Shs 1 = Ug Shs 26
Find the total amount of money in Uganda shillings that the trader had if he had US $ 75
and Kshs 15,000.
41. Peter left town X and drove due Eastwards to town Y a distance of 90 km. He then
drove southwards from town Y to town Z a distance of 120 km and he returned by a
straight route directly from town Z to town X.
(a) Using a scale of 1cm to represent 10 km draw an accurate diagram showing Peter’s
route.
(b) Find the shortest distance from town Z to town X in kilometres.
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42. Below is a cylindrical tank.
280cm
400 cm
43. In the figure, BCD is a straight, line. BX bisects angle ABC and CX bisects angle
ACD. Calculate the value of angle BXC in degrees.
X
A
70°
50°
B C D
44. Use the table below to answer the questions that follow:
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45. Study the Venn diagram below, given that n(M) = 40. Use it to answer questions that
follow:
n(K)= n(M)=
20
If KnM is P
46. (a) How many revolutions can a bicycle wheel of radius 35 cm make if it covers a
distance of 88 km?
(b) A string 4400 cm long has been wound 50 times a cylindrical tin.
Calculate the diameter of the tin.
100cm
70cm
70cm
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50. (a) Simplify: 0.48 x 0.2
0.16
(b)Work out: ¾ of ⅓ - 2.
51. The sum of the magic square below are the same diagonally, horizontally and
vertically. Complete the table.
14 ...... ......
9 11 ......
...... ...... 8
52. (a) The mean mark of 4 girls in a science test is 6, the marks of three of them are
4, 7, 5. Find the marks of the fourth girl.
(b) Find the range of their marks.
53. (a) Given that: -13 < 2x+1<11. Find the solution set for x.
(b) Find the square root of 0.0081.
(c) Round off 499.64 to the nearest whole number.
54. Two taps A and B are connected to a tank. Tap A takes 9 minutes to fill the tank, Tap
B takes 12 minutes to fill the tank. Given that the tank holds 7200 litres of water when
full;
a. How much water does tap A pour in the tank after only one minute?
b. How long does it take for the tank to be completely full if both taps are
opened at the same time?
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