QUICK MATHEMATICS ITEMS

QUICK MATHEMATICS ITEMS

BY KFA MATH SOLUTIONS

ST JAMES CAMBRIDGE

BY KFA QUICK MATH SOLUTIONS

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ITEM 1.
Your guardian has a budget of Shs700, 000 for your school expenses. To get to the
School where your guardian wishes to take you for A-level, your guardian drove 4
Km east from your home to the stage and then 8 km north to reach there. However,
You realized later that there was a direct route from home to school your guardian
Could have used.
On reaching the school, you found out that, the school fees, admission fees and
Uniform fees are Shs900, 000, Shs100, 000 and Shs350, 000 respectively. The school
Also offers a bursary of; 60% off school fees, free admission and eighty-seven
Thousand five hundred shillings off uniform fees to those who got first grade and
According to your results, you qualify for this bursary.
It also has two payment plans on school fees that the guardians can choose from
And they are:
- Paying in two instalments that is to say; two thirds of the school fees at the
Beginning of the term and the balance at either visitation day or end of term.
- Paying in three equal instalments; at the beginning of the term, on visitation
Day and end of term respectively.
Task:
(a) How far is it from your home to school if you travel through the direct route?
(b) (I) since you qualify for the bursary, how much will you pay?
(ii) Will your guardian afford the school expenses according to his budget?
(c) (I) how much will those who are to pay school fees of Shs900, 000, pay
Per instalment, according to each of the payment plans?
(ii) Which payment plan would you recommend for them and why?

ITEM 2.
You have friends who rear cows and goats. During the festive season, they want to
Sell at most 10 of their cows and at least 8 of their goats. They also want to ensure
That the number of goats they sell are less than twice the number of cows. They also
Do not want to sell more than 20 animals all together. They wish to maximize
Sales by selling each goat at Shs200, 000/= and each cow at Shs1.5 million but they
Do not know the number of goats and cows to sell to fulfil their wish.

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Task:
(a) Write mathematical statements that show the relation between the cows and
Goats.
(b) Show the feasible region of the relation on the Cartesian plane.
(c) Help your friends to determine the maximum amount of money they will
Possibly make from the sale of cows and goats.

ITEM 3.
A day school holds a weekly assembly every Monday starting at 8:00 AM. The
Head teacher has noticed a trend of learners arriving late for assembly. Since the
School gates are opened at 7:30 AM, he decided to collect data from a sample of
Learners on their arrival times in minutes past 7:30 AM to make an informed
Decision about the assembly's start time. The collected data was as follows:
15, 18, 20, 22, 17, 25, 23, 28, 26, 21
30, 33, 35, 32, 36, 39, 42, 37, 41, 28
45, 48, 29, 31, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 31
28, 35, 40, 42, 37, 39, 36, 38, 29, 43
46, 47, 30, 32, 31, 45, 27, 44, 46, 49
52, 53, 55, 51, 50, 56, 57, 58, 59, 51
Task:
(a) Giving a reason, based on calculations using the data collected, suggest the
Time the assembly should always start.
(b) The deputy Head teacher advised the Head teacher to always start the
Assembly when at least 75% of the students are present. Based on the advice,
Determine the time the assembly should start.
(c) If you were the Head teacher, which of the two suggested assembly start
Times from (a) and (b) would you consider more appropriate and why?

ITEM 4.
The Ministry of Health in Uganda is conducting a survey about the existence of
Malaria in three districts: A, B and C. The ministry will then come up with control

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Measures if the chance of a person testing positive having visited at least one of the
Districts is above 50%. The Ministry has intentionally selected a sample of people
Who visited the three districts and tested them for malaria. The test results have
Revealed that 50 people who visited district A, 60 people who visited district B and
40 people who visited district C tested positive for malaria. Additionally, 20 people
Who visited both districts A and B, 10 people who visited districts A and C, and 15?
People who visited districts B and C tested positive for malaria. The Ministry has
Also discovered that 20 people who only visited district C tested positive for
Malaria and 40 people who visited the three districts tested negative for malaria.

Task:
(a) Determine the number of people that were tested for malaria by the ministry
Of health.
(B) Calculate the probability of a person testing positive having visited at least
One of the three districts.
(c) Advise the Ministry of health, with a reason based on calculation, whether to
Come up with control measures or not.

ITEM 5.
Your uncle has offered to drive you to your friend's birthday party. He normally
Drives his car at an average speed of 50 km/h, so he requests you to get directions
To the party reception and the time you are supposed to be there so that you decide
On when you can leave home to reach on time. You were informed that the party
Will start at 2:00 PM and the directions are:
- From your home, take the north eastern direction and reach the supermarket
That is 20 km away.
- Then take the road that is south of the supermarket and it will take you 45
Minutes to reach the junction.
- From the junction, take the southwestern road and drive 25 km to reach the
Party reception. On reaching the party reception using the given directions, your friend
remembers
That there is a direct route from your home to the reception that you could have
Used but does not know how long it is.

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Task:
(a) (I) describe the direction of your home from the party reception.
(ii) How far is the party reception from your home using the direct route?
(b) What time would you have to leave home for you to reach the party?
Reception on time, if you used the direct route?

ITEM 6.
Your neighbor has a building structure that is at a roofing stage with the roof
Frame installed as shown below:

The roof frame has a rectangular base with dimensions of 20 m by 6 m and the ridge
Board of 14 m centrally placed. The triangular faces are equilateral.
She wants to use iron sheets that are available in two types; type A and type B. The
Iron sheet of type a costs Shs33, 000 each and that of type B costs Shs42, 000. Each
Iron sheet has a length of 10ft and usable width of 2.623 ft. (1ft = 0.3m)
The hardware shop from which she wants to buy the iron sheets gives a discount of
6% on the total cost of every fifty (50) iron sheets of type A bought and a discount
Of 10% on the total cost of every seventy (70) iron sheets of type B bought. She intends to
borrow money from a bank to buy the iron sheets but she is not so
Sure of the amount to borrow.
Task:
(a) Help your neighbor to estimate the amount of money to be borrowed from
The bank for either type of iron sheets.
(b) Give your neighbor advice, with reason(s), on the type of iron sheets to buy.

ITEM 7
After university, a graduate decided to have a joint graduation party with the family members
which will cost a total of Uganda shilling four million. The party day is nearing and the graduate
wants to find out whether she has enough required amount of money or not. Below is the stand of
the contributions made.

 Her parents promised to contribute 30% of the money.

 Her friends promised 10% more than your parents promised.

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 And since she is the owner of the party, she contributed 20% of the required amount.

When she went to book for shopping, she moved 5km due East from your home and then 12km
due North to reach the market, but one of the old people in the market told her that there is a
shortest route to use that can use the shortest time ever if moving at the same speed from market
to home

TASK

a) How far do you think it is from her home to the market if she used the shortest route as
the old person suggested?
b) If she could use 5minutes to cover each kilometer, for how long did she rest for using a
short route compared to the longer route?
c) Does she have the required amount for the party? Justify.
d) What ratio is that amount of money either exceeding or lacking to the total amount?

ITEM 8
A trustworthy aunt who works very far away from home told the maid to identify a shop that
gives beans, sugar and posho on credit for at least two weeks. She also tasked the maid not to
exceed Ugx100, 000 in a period of two weeks. After touring the trading Centre, the maid found
out that the prices for a kilogram of beans, sugar and posho were Ugx 4,000, 5500 and 2400
respectively.

The consumables are picked on Mondays and Thursdays only and the maid picked as follows:

Week one; Monday: 2kg of sugar, 3kg of posho and 2kg of beans

Thursday: 4kg of posho and 3kg of beans

Week two; Monday: 3kg of sugar, 4kg of posho and 2kg of beans

Thursday: One kg of sugar, 2kg of beans and 5kg of posho

The aunt came back and asked the maid on how much she owed the shopkeeper.

Tasks

Help the maid in knowing

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a) How many kg of each item were picked from the sop in the two weeks
b) How much money is to be told to the aunt?
c) Did the maid fit in the planned expenditure budget proposed by the aunt?

ITEM 9.
A number of nurses working in Hoima Regional referral hospital decided to raise Ugx 144,000 to
buy a plot of land in Uganda in order to put up their private health clinic. Each nurse was to
contribute the same amount. But unfortunately, before the contribution were collected, five of the
nurses retired. This meant that the remaining contributors had to pay more to meet the target and
each nurse had to add Ugx 2400 on the contribution to bridge the gap of those who had retired.

TASK

a) Find the original number of nurses who were at Hoima referral hospital and how much
each nurse would have contributed if five nurses had not retired.
b) Determine the percentage increase in the contribution

ITEM 10.
Your uncle has a bathroom with three walls and the floor he wishes to tile. The person who
wishes to do this work gave him the quotations required to complete this work as follows;

 Each box of tiles can cover a space of 1.5 square meters and costs Ugx 32,000.
 The two opposite walls measure 6 feet by 6 feet each
 The floor and the other remaining wall measures 5 feet by 6 feet

HINT: 1 feet =0.305 meters

TASK

Help your uncle to find out how much money he will need to tile the bathroom.

ITEM 11.

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There are very few teachers who have teaching subjects. A survey was done in your school and it
was found that the school has a teaching staff of 22 teachers, 8 of them teaching mathematics, 7
teach physics and 4 teach Mathematics and Chemistry. No teacher teaches all the three subjects.
The number of teachers who teach Physics and Chemistry is equal to that of those who teach
Chemistry but not Physics.

In the school staffroom there are two similar cans that have different heights. One 6cm and the
other one 9cm. If the surface are of the larger can is 840 cm2.

TASK

a) Find the number of teachers who teach none of the three subjects.
b) Find the probability that a teacher picked at random teachers only one subject.
c) Find the surface area of the smaller can.

ITEM 12.
The figure below shows a net of a right pyramid with a rectangular base ABCD. The figure
below shows a net of a right pyramid with a rectangular base ABCD.

If V is the vertex of the pyramid VABCD above the base ABCD, and the slant sides of each
triangle measure 26cm, AB= 16cm and BC 12 cm.

a) Draw the right pyramid showing clearly points VABCD.

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b) Find the height of the pyramid.

c) Find the area of the plane VAB.

ITEM 13.
A manufacturer considers that men and women workers are equally efficient and so he pays
them at the same rate. He has 30 units of male workers and 17 units of female workers and
capital respectively, which he uses to produce 2 types of goods, A and B. To produce one unit of
A, 2 workers and 3 units of capital are required, while 3 workers and 1 unit of capital are
required to produce one unit of B. Goods A and B are priced at UGX 100,000 and UGX 120,000
per unit respectively.

TASK:

a) Write mathematical statements that show the relation between the units of goods A and B
produced.
b) Show the feasible region of the relation on the Cartesian plane
c) How should he use his resources to maximize the total revenue?
d) Do you agree with this view of the manufacturer that men and women workers are
equally efficient and so should be paid at the same rate?

ITEM 14.
A group of tourists has just arrived at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda for a safari
adventure. They are interested in reaching the source of the Nile in Jinja. The touring company
has approximated the distance from Entebbe to Jinja to be about 94km, which should take around
3 hours without traffic, assuming an average speed of 30 km/h for the whole journey. Here are
the directions they are following:

 From Entebbe Airport, travel north for 35 kilometers to reach Kampala, the capital
city.
 From Kampala, head East on the Jinja highway. As they approached Mukono,
approximately 25km from Kampala, the guide was alerted by a friend coming from
Jinja to change the route and use the Kayunga road due to an accident in Mabira.
The driven changed the route at Mukono and went in the Northeast direction to
Kayunga, approximately 45km away.

TASK

a) Describe the direction from Jinja to Entebbe.

b) How far is it from Mukono to Jinja using the direct route instead of the Kayunga route?
c) How long does the journey from Entebbe to Kampala take?

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d) If each liter of fuel costs UGX 4900 and the car van consumes 1 liter per 10 km, how
much fuel and money would they have saved if there was no accident in Mabira?
e) How much extra time did they spend on the road due to the detour, and what
recommendations would you make to avoid such delays in the future?

ITEM 15.
The company manager is organizing a party for her colleagues. The cost of renting a local hall is
UGX 2,000,000 for the evening. She then has to budget for food, which will cost approximately
UGX20, 000 per person. The manager needs to ensure that he total cost of the evening stays
within her budget. The manager has a maximum budget UGX5, 000,000.

TASK:

a) Write down a formula connecting the total cost of the evening with the number of people
attending.
b) Find the total cost for the evening if 25 people attend.
c) Find the greatest number of people will attend. Calculate how much each person should
be charged so that the manager covers her cost.

ITEM 16.
In a school survey, 200 students were asked about their internet usage habits. They were asked to
choose from three activities: Social Media (Like Facebook and Tiktok), Academic Work (such as
research and homework), and Playing Games. The results showed that 165 students use the
internet for Social Media, 130 use it for both Social Media and Academic Work only, 60 use it
for both Social Media and Playing Games, and 50 use it for both Playing Games and Academic
Work. Additionally, no students exclusively use the internet for playing games. Now, the school
needs to decide whether to set rules if more than 60% of students spend their internet time on
Social Media.

TASK:

a) Calculate how many students use the internet for at least one of these activities.
b) Determine how many students don’t use the internet at all.
c) Estimate the percentage of students who use the internet solely for Academic Work.
d) Based on the findings, advice the school on whether to implement rules or not.

ITEM 17.
Your neighbor runs an industry in a shed that is in the shape of a cuboid surmounted by a half-
cylinder. The dimensions of the cuboid base are 15m by 7m, and the height is 8m

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Your neighbor wants to install air conditioning units in the shed. The installation company offers
two types of units: Type X and Type Y. Each Type X unit costs $2,500 and each Type Y unit
costs $3,200. The Type X unit covers 100m3 of air, while the Type Y unit covers 150m3 of air.
For bulk purchases, the company offers a 5% discount on the total cost for every 10 Type X units
purchased and a 7% discount on the total cost for every 8 Type Y units purchased. The neighbor
plans to buy enough units to cover the entire volume of the shed. He intends to borrow money
from a bank to buy the air conditioning units but is unsure of the amount needed.

TASK:

a) Find the volume of the air that the shed can hold.
b) If the industry requires machinery which would occupy a total space of 300m3 and there
are 20 workers each of whom would occupy b0.08 space on an average, how much air
would be in the shed when it is working?
c) Calculate the number of air conditioning units required for both Type X and Type Y units
based on the usable air volume.
d) Estimate the total cost and the amount of money your neighbor needs to borrow for
purchasing the required air conditioning units for both Type X and Type Y.
e) Advise your neighbor, with reasons, on the type of air conditioning units to buy.

ITEM 18.
There is a quarantine of all cattle and goats in some parts of Western Uganda especially Mbarara
District. The area honorable Member of Parliament (M.P) wants to throw for his constituents a
celebration party for the success of the Parish Development Model (PDM) and he invited a lot of
guests. However, due to the quarantine he cannot buy any animals fro Mbarara and he has been
advised to go to Kayunga where cheap cattle and good Yoghurt can be found. He moves from
Mbarara to Masaka which is 160km North of Mbarara. From Masaka he moves West wards
150km to Kampala. From Kampala he heads to Mukono which is in the direction 75ºW which is
90km from Kampala. From Mukono he heads to Kayunga which is 148km and South of
Mukono.

When he reached Kayunga he bought 400 cows and each costs UGX850, 000 per cow. The
farmer and owner of the cow first gives a 5% discount on each cow plus an additional 10%
discount for any number of cows bought in excess of 250.

In order to package for the yoghurt, he bought two identical types of buckets. A smaller bucket
with a base radius of 30cm and a larger bucket with a base radius of 50cm. He intends to use the
buckets to keep the Yoghurt for his guests. The capacity of the smaller bucket is 45litres and he
is to buy 4 smaller buckets and 2 large buckets.

TASK:

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a) Direct the honorable MP on the shortest route he should take and the shortest distance
between Mbarara and Kayunga.
b) Find the total cost he incurred in purchasing the cows.
c) What is the maximum amount of Yoghurt he bought for his guests?

ITEM 19.
A mathematician gave your friend a carpenter a task of making a rectangular ground floor of a
rabbit house. The length of the house is to be (x+3) m and the width is to ym. Its perimeter
should be 25m and its area must be 25m2 The mathematician adds that he needs the work to be
finished in one day hut he has ever contracted 3 men working at the same rate and they only
managed to work on 5m2 To be given this contract, your friend is required to make a clear
diagram showing the numerical sizes of the length and width but fails to do so and comes to you
for help.

TASK:

a) (i)Determine the length and width of the floor to be occupied by the house.
(ii)Make a sketch of the floor your friend can present to the mathematician to get the
contract.
b) Determine the number of workers of workers who are needed to complete the house if
they all work at the same rate as the group the man has ever used.

ITEM 20.
A senior three student was given three points A (4, 0), B (0, 3) and C (4, 3) of a triangle ABC
and asked to enlarge by both a scale factor 2 and scale factor -2 on the same axes with the Centre
as the origin, the leaner could not distinguish between a positive and a negative scale factor!
Guide learner through and state the images;

i. Of triangle A₁ B₁ C₁, scale factor 2

ii. Of triangle A₂ B₂ C₂ scale factor 2

TASK:

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You are given two cylinders one of length 12cm and volume 630cm another with length 14cm
₃
and Volume 420cm

i. State with reasons why whether the cylinders are geometrically similar.
ii. What would have been the volume of the smaller one for the cylinders to be similar?

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ITEM 21.
You went to the gym on 1st February 2024 with Shs100, 000 with hope to come back with some
balance of not below UGX50, 000 to cater for home expenses.

Reaching their, you met a new friend. She tells you that she comes every four days and you come
every six days.

You ask her how much she pays so that you compare with yours and she says “I paid a
membership fee and now I only pay UGX 10,000 each day you visit the gym. And you visit the
gym 5 days a month.

After the gym, you decide to hang out for a cup of coffee and PIZZA and each of you had to pay
UGX 45,500. Later your friend got an emergency call and left before you exchanged contacts.

TASK:

a) (i)What are the fewest number of days you will have to wait for, to meet your friend
again?
(ii)Using the number of days, mark the exact date on the calendar.
b) (i)How much do you spend in the gym a month?
(ii)Comparing with how much your friend pays, what can you do and Why?
c) (i)How much did you spend that day?
(ii)On the money you came with, how much balance did you take back home?
(iii)Will you be able to cater for all home expenses? Explain why you say so.

ITEM 22. (UNEB UCE 2024)

Two friends, Sarah and Moses, started a poultry project to which they contributed Shs4, 000,000
and Shs6, 000,000 respectively.

They agree to share the profits in the ratio of their contributions and the project started with
2,000 birds.

After selling all the birds, they made a profit of one million five hundred thousand shillings.
They re-invested the profit in the project and the number of birds increased to 2,500, However,
Moses was not sure of the amount the re-invested as well as the percentage increase in the
number of birds.

On 1st March 2024, they bought feeds and also balance their books of accounts. On that very day,
they had a meeting in which they agreed to buy feeds after every 7 days and balanced their books
of accounts after every 15 days. However, Sarah wondered if there would be another date in the
future on which they would buy feeds and balance their books of accounts on the same day.

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TASK:

a) How much of the profit did Moses re-invest in the business?

b) What was the percentage increase in the number of birds?
c) On what date in the future would they buy the feeds and also balance their books of
accounts the same day?

ITEM 23. (UNEB UCE 2024)

A tailor makes school uniforms for boys and girls. The tailor makes at least 80 sets of uniforms
for boys and not more than 100 sets of uniforms for girls. Each set of uniform for boys requires
4m of material and each set of uniform for girls requires 3m of material. The tailor has at most
600m of material to use. The tailor makes a profit of hs8, 000 on each set of boy’s uniform and
Shs6, 000 on each set of girl’s uniform. The tailor is not sure of the number of sets of uniforms to
make in order to maximize profit.

TASK:

a) Express the tailor’s conditions as inequalities and equations.

b) Show the feasible region of the tailor’s conditions on a Cartesian plane.
c) Help the tailor to determine the possible number of sets of boys’ and girls’ uniforms that
should be made to maximize profit. Hence, state the maximum amount of money the tailor
is likely to make.

ITEM 24. (UNEB UCE 2024)

James has been sent to a certain region to find out whether it is necessary to set up a new office
for processing National Identity Cards, Driving Permits and Passports, if the probability of a
person having only one document is less than 50%.

James randomly interviewed 75 people in that region. He found that 18 people did not have any
of the three documents, 30 people had Driving Permits and 20 people had Passports. The number
of people who had both National Identity Cards and Driving Permits only, was twice those who
had Passports and Driving Permits but no National Identity Cards. 4 people had Passports only.

3 people had all the three documents and 12 people had driving Permits only. James has to report
about the number of people who have National Identity Cards but he has some missing
information.

TASK:

a) Help James to find the total number of people with National Identity Cards.
b) Determine if there is need for a new office in the region. Give a reason for your answer.

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ITEM 25. (UCE UNEB 2024)

A farmer’ cooperative society gave out fertilizers to a sample of maize farmers in the first
season. The number of bags of maize harvested in the first season are given below.

20 40 60 55 36 69 59 78 47 66

59 70 53 24 63 50 46 38 68 57

30 65 58 61 57 86 77 54 29 88

62 44 89 45 87 65 47 49 52 69

41 80 37 56 74 27 76 58 79 39

The society wants;

(i) The data to be presented in a frequency distribution table with classes of interval 10
for easy interpretation.
(ii) To determine the number of bags of maize above which half of the farmers harvested
so as to establish the real effect of the fertilizers.
(iii) To determine the number of farmers whose harvest is 44.4 bags of maize and below
for re-training before the second season but they lack the information.

TASK:

Help the society to;

a) Represent the data in a frequency distribution table.

b) Determine the number of bags of maize above which half of the farmers harvested.
c) Determine the number of farmers for re-training.

ITEM 26. (UNEB UCE 2024)

Your sister bakes cakes and has received an order for a cake from your friend, Joseph, who needs
a cylindrical cake with a base area of 660.5 cm2.

Your sister has suggested two payment two payment plans to Joseph. He can pay Shs400, 000
cash or pay a deposit of Shs200, 000 and 2 equal instalments of Shs110, 000 each. However,
Joseph has found it hard to decide on the payment plan.

Your sister has triangle board that she wants to use to cut the circular tray on which the base of
the cake will sit. The two sides of the triangular board measure 60 cm and 48 cm, and the angle
between these sides is 600.

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Your sister is not sure whether the largest circular tray (inscribed circle) she can cut out of the
triangle board will be enough for the base of the cake.

TASK:

(a) Which of the two payment plans will you recommend to Joseph? Give a reason for your
answer.
(b) Determine whether the largest circular tray she plans to cut out of the triangular board
will be enough for the base of the cake.

ITEM 27. (UNEB UCE 2024)

Your brother wants to design a children’s playground. The playground will have a triangular
garden and a circular fence around the garden. The two sides of the triangular garden will
measure 50m 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 metre of pavers costs Shs35, 000.

Your brother needs help in identifying the type of triangle represented by the triangular garden,
coming up with an accurate design of the playground as well as the cost of buying the pavers.

TASK:

(a) Construct an accurate design of the children’s playground.

(b) Identify the type of triangle represented by the triangular garden and give a reason for
your answer.
(c) Determine the amount of money needed to buy the pavers.

ITEM 28.
Mr. Muyanja was preparing for a weeding and he wanted to know the quantities of different
kinds of drinks that his guests would take. On consultations, Mr. Namwiga gave them the
following information:

He needed to buy Soda(S), Juice (J) and Water (W) depending on the preferences of the people.
The number of people to drink both Soda and Juice only should be one fifth of those who are to
drink all the three categories. Those who are drink all the three categories are also to be 20 times
those to drink Juice and Water only, and 10 times those to drink Soda and Water only. Also the
numbers of number of people to drink Soda only are to be 21/2 times those to drink Water only.

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Suppose that 41 people won’t drink any type of drink and 200 people are expected of whom 24
people are likely to take only one type of drink.

TASK:

a) Help Mr. Muyanja to determine the number of bottle of each type of drink that would be
taken.
b) Determine the type of drink that would be most taken. What would be the cause for this
preference?
c) If a guest would be picked at random from the group, determine the probability that
he/she would drink utmost one type of drink.

ITEM 29.
Marvin is in partnership with a hotel and he supplies chairs depending on the amount of money
deposited on his account. However, he has a problem of not working the exact quantity of
furniture to supply, which causes shortfalls. This weakness is a major source of dissatisfaction to
the hotel manager.

In his factory, Marvin produces two types of chairs, namely; the classic and modern types. Each
classic chair require 3 hours of woodwork and 2 hours of furnishing; while each modern chair
require 2 hours of wood work and 3 hours of furnishing. The factory has 120 hours of wood
work and 100 hours of furnishing available per week. Each classic chair generates a profit of $50
and each modern chair generates a profit of 60$.

The maximum profit made in the first week of every month is reinvested back into three
departments of woodwork, furnishing and marketing. The woodwork department receives half of
the profits, furnishings received three-thirds of the remainder, while the rest for marketing.
According to the order the has received, he must receive a profit of $2,200.

TASK:

a) Determine the number of chairs of each type he must deliver to the hotel.
b) Help Marvin to determine the amount of profit that each department must receive.
c) According to your own reason, was the distribution of money fair? Why?

ITEM 30.
Five girls whose homes when marked on a grid make a trapezium, wanted to buy clothes. They
realized that if they buy them in a bunch, it will be cheaper. So they mobilized themselves and
each person contributed as follows:

Girl 1: Contributed one hundred thirty-three thousand two hundred fifty shillings.

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Girl 2: Contributed 20% more than that of girl 1

Girl 3: Contributed ½ of the amount girl 1 contributed.

Girl 4: Contributed a fraction that is a fifth less than the fraction of girl 3 of the amount of

girl 1

Girl 5: She contributed the balance required to make the Shs.800, 000 required.

TASK:

a) Locate the homes of the girls on a grid while labeling their coordinates.

b) What amount did each girl contribute?

c) In which other way could they contribute the amount required fairly and according on

that way, how much would each contribute?

ITEM 31.

You have a piece of wood that is 12 cm in length and 12 cm in width. You to use it to make a
simple money bank that is in shape of a cube and you use it to save your coins. You want to
make it in such a way that to remove your money, you don’t break it but rather you unfold it and
then fold it back. You plan to start making it on 27th November 2024 and you want it to be done
in one week!

TASK:
a) Accurately illustrate how many pieces of wood you would cut out of the piece of wood
you have for your money bank clearly showing their width and length.
b) Show how you will arrange them on the floor such that when you start folding them, they
form the shape you want.
c) What space will your money bank occupy?
d) On which date will your money bank be ready for use?

ITEM 32.
Your facilitator gathered information on the ages of some few learners in the school from
different classes. Below are his records:

14 15 16 17 18 21 18 17 15 16 21

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21 17 14 18 15 17 17 15 16 21 18

18 21 17 15 14 21 16 17 16 21 16

15 16 21 17 18 16 17 21 18 15 17

TASK:

a) In which other way van the facilitator record the information above such that even
another person looking at it can easily tell the number of learners in each age group?
b) Illustrate your suggestion in (a) above.
c) State which age are the majority of the learners in the school.
d) Your facilitator wants to sell either cartoon stickers or stickers for different singers in the
school. According to the above records, which stickers do you think will be suitable?

ITEM 33.
You are a store’s manager in your school bakery project. You missed two days of school due to
an emergence. On returning, you found out that the total wheat used in the two the two days was
24 packets. You want to find out the exact amount of wheat used on those two respective days
but the student who was getting the wheat from the store didn’t attend school! So, you went to
those in the production department and they told you that all they know is that the packets of
wheat used they on day two multiplied that of day one by the same number.

TASK:

a) Use the information you have gathered at the moment, to find out the amount of wheat
used on day one and day two respectively.
b) The number of new students who enroll in the school each term is about 40. If currently
you’re in term three and the number of students, are 500. How many students will the
school have by term three of the following year?

ITEM 34.
You are going to host some friends for a movie night. You have four options you can choose
from: C= comedy, A= animation, M= musical, R= romance. You decided to ask them which
one they would love to watch so that you choose one that is preferred by most of them. Below
where their preferences:

CAARRMMCM

RCRRMAARM

A A R A R R R.

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TASK:

a) Summarize your data.

b) Represent your data.
c) Which movie will you choose to show your friends?

ITEM 35.
Mr. Livingstone is a very rich man in Kampala city where he has constructed 36 houses. He
wants to paint his houses by either green, white or black colors. Of these, 10 house must have to
be painted with green colors and 6 houses must be painted by black colour. The 5 houses must be
painted with green and white, 8 white and black and 4 houses must be painted with green and
black. All houses which are painted white are three more than those which are painted black.

TASK:

a) Determine the number of houses that were painted with all the three different colors.
b) Determine the number of houses painted with at least two of each of the three colors.
c) If the house is picked at random, what is the probability that it is a black or white colour
only?

ITEM 36.
You moved 5 km from your class while walking in the Northwest direction to the staffroom
looking for the teacher. Reaching the staffroom, you were told that the teacher is in the kitchen,
so you turned in the 1800 direction and moved 6 km towards the teacher. Reaching the kitchen,
you realized that you had a wrong book. You want to go back to class to get the actual book but
using a different pathway since the school has many pathways.

TASK:

a) Accurately illustrate how you moved from the class to the teacher in the beginning.
b) From your illustration, which other pathway will you take to return to class?
c) On which bearing will you turn for you to take the pathway?
d) How far is the park from the class using that pathway?
e) In comparison to the first distance you moved, is it wise to choose that pathway? Give
reason for your answer.

ITEM 37.
Your head teacher of the school wants to solve the problem of too much heat in senior four
classrooms especially after lunch. He decided to purchase 6 fans that will be installed in class.

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The shop keeper offered to give a discount of 10% on each fan bought on cash basis. He also
accepts installments as long as the buyer pays a deposit of 50% on each fan. When the buyers
choose to buy in installments, each installment is either 12,000 shillings per month for 6 months
or 3,000 shillings per week for 25 weeks. Each fan has a market price of 90,000 shillings.

TASK:

As a learner of mathematics, advise the head teacher on the best option that will minimize the
cost while buying the fans.

ITEM 38.
Elimu School bought 25 textbooks and 35 exercise books for 135,000 shillings from Kampala
General Bookshop. From the same bookshop, Samo School bought 21 textbooks and 38 exercise
books and spent 13,000 shillings less than Elimu School. However, in Soroti cheap bookshop the
cost of a textbook was 5% less and that of an exercise book was 5% more than in Kampala
General Bookshop. Mengo School bought the same number of textbooks and exercise books as
Elimu School in Soroti cheap bookshop.

TASK:

a) As a senior four students, help Elimu schools and Soma schools to find out the price of
each item in Kampala general shop.
b) What is the difference in the amount spent by Mengo School and Elimu School?

ITEM 39.
The government of Uganda through Mulago hospital carried out free medical checkup for its
state ministers in order to enable them attend the allied membership meeting (NAM) which took
place in Uganda at the start of the year 2024. However, each minister was weighed and the
masses of those who attended the medical health function were recorded as follows

64 58 52 73 62 50 60 64

49 47 58 45 58 74 66 73

48 46 55 52 51 69 59 44

60 42 48 54 73 61 58 50

41 53 54 46 43 61 67 70

TASK:

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a) Form a frequency distribution table using classes of sizes 5 and starting with class 40 to
44.
b) Giving a reason, based on the statistics calculations. What do you think was the average
weight and most appearing weight?
c) Assuming you are the medical doctor who carried out the test, represent the information
on a statistical graph to obtain the modal weight.

ITEM 40.
A client at your uncle’s workshop has brought an order for baking tins that he wants to use to use
to make a wedding cake, he wants each tin to have a diameter of 24cm at the bottom, 36cm at the
top and a height of 28cm. Your uncle asks you to determine the material that will be needed to
make one tin so that he can order for the materials from town to make the order.

The client has also just bought a machine that makes ice=cream cones, it makes cones of
diameter 9cm but he can adjust the height depending on the volume of ice cream he wants, he
also intends to fill each cone with 63cm3 of ice-cream.

TASK:

(a) Determine the material that will be needed to make one baking tin.
(b) Determine the height of the cone that should be put in the machine.

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