Mathematics

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MATHEMATICS
Paper2
2½ hours
Uganda Certificate of Education

MATHEMATICS
Paper 2
2 hours 30 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Answer all questions in Section A and any five from Section B
Any additional question(s) will not be marked
All necessary calculations must be shown clearly with the rest of the answer.
Therefore, no paper should be given for rough work
Graph paper is provided
Silent, non – programmable scientific calculators and Mathematical tables with a list
of formulae may be used.
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SECTION A (40MARKS)
Answer all questions in this section
1. Express 2. 42 as an improper fraction in its simplest form. (4 marks)
( )
2
1
(0 . 125)2 ×
16
2. Without using tables or calculators, simplify ( 64 )−3 . (4marks)
x y
3. y
Find the value of if 9 2x
= ( 81 ) 2
. (4marks)
4. In a commercial survey, it was found that 84 customers of hotel LAX

representing 25% of all the hotel customers liked soft music (M). 225
customers liked football (F). Thirty two customers liked neither of the two .
Represent this information on a Venn diagram and hence find the number
of customers who liked both the soft music and football. (4marks)
5. Given that f(x) = 2x2 + 1 and g(x) 2x – 4. Write down an expression for gf(x).
Hence find the values of x for which gf(x) = 0. (4 marks)
√32 + √75
6. Evaluate √2 √3 . (4marks)
7. At a certain company, three bells A, B and C are always rang on Tuesday at
exactly 08:00 am. They are rand at intervals of 75, 100 and 125 minutes
respectively. When will all the bells be rang again? (4marks)
8. A map has a scale of 1: 125,000. The area of a farm on the map is 6.25cm 2.
What is the actual area of the farm in km2? (4marks)
9. Find the equation of the perpendicular line to the line 2y – 3x = 7 at the

point (1,5). (4marks)
10. Without using tables or a calculator, evaluate ; 7.46 2 – 2.542. (4marks)

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SECTION B: (60 MARKS)
Answer any five questions from this section
11. (a) Given that h(x) = ax2 – bx where h(-1) = 3 and h(1) = -1
Find the;
(i) values of the constants a and b.
(ii) values of x for which h(x) = 0
(b) If f(x) = 2x + 1 and g(x) = x2, find the values of x for which gf(x) = fg(x).
(12marks)
12. Q
O S P
In a triangle OPQ, OP = p, OQ = q. R is a point on OQ such that OR : RQ = 3:1 .
S is a point on OP such that OS : SP = 1 : 2 . PR intersect with SQ at point T.
Given that PT = x PR and QT = y QS, find the position vector of T in terms
of
(a) x, p and q
(b) y , p and q
(c) Hence find the values of x and y
(d) Determine the ratio of ST : TQ (12 marks)
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13. Mpambire is 50km from Kampala. Musoke sets off from Kampala at
0915 hours riding a bicycle at 20km/h. Musoke’s bicycle broke down at
1015 hours and he was delayed for 30 minutes. He then walked back to
Kampala and reached at 1330 hours. Ajuk sets off at 1100 hours from
Kampala, riding a bicycle and reached Mpambire at 1330 hours.
(a) On the same axes draw the graphs showing the journeys of Musoke
and Ajuk. ( Use 1cm to represent 2.5 km on the vertical axis and 1cm
to represent 15 minutes along the horizontal axis)
(b) Use your graph in 13 (a) to find;
(i) how far from Mpambire Musoke was when his bicycle broke
down.
(ii) the speed at which Musoke walked back to Kampala.
(iii) Ajuk’s average speed
(iv) the time when the two cyclist met
(v) the distance from Kampala when the two men met. (12 marks)
14. Of the 35 candidates in senior four, 13 registered for Biology (B), 20

registered for History (H) and 17 registered for Fine Art (F). also 9 registered
for both Biology and Fine Art. Given that n(BnH) = 3, n(BnFnH) = 2, and
n(HnFnB1 ) = 8.
(a) show this information on a Venn diagram. Hence from the diagram;
(i) Find the number of students who registered for history only
(ii) Find the number of students who registered for at least two of
the subjects.
(b) Which subject had to be taken with at least one other subject?
(c) how many candidates did not take any of the three subjects .(12 marks)
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15. (a) if a:b = 7:11, find the ratio (5a – 3b) : (2a + 3b).
(b) The ages of A and B are in the ratio 15:8. In ten years to come the
ratio of their ages will be 5:3. Find the present ages of A and B.
(c) Annet, Betty and Charles are to share $156 in the ratio 1:2:3.
How much more money in shillings will Charles share than betty is
1$=2580/= (12marks)
16. In a certain country, income tax is levied as follows.

A person’s monthly gross income has certain allowances deducted from it
before it is subjected to taxation. The allowances are as follows;
Married man shs. 1800
Un married man shs.1200
Each child;
(i) below 11 years shs. 500
(ii) above 11 but below 18 years shs. 700
Insurance premium shs. 1200
Peter earns shs. 64,000. He is married with three children aged between
eleven and eighteen, and two children below eleven years. Given that he is
insured and has claimed transport allowance of shs. 1750, calculate the
income tax he pays under the income tax rates below;
Taxable income (shs) Rates (%)

0 – 10,000 10
10,001 – 20,000 15
20,001 – 30,000 35
30,001 – 40,000 45
40,001 – Above 50
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17.
D C
A B
E H K
F G J
ABCDEFGHJK is an interlocking block requested for an engineer for a special
construction work. ABCDEFGH is a cube with AB = GJ = 8 cm.
If BJ is the circumference of a quarter of a circular part of a cylinder cut off
from the block. Find the;
(i) length of the circular arc BJ
(ii) curved area BCKJ
(iii) area of the face ABJF
(v) Total surface area of the block
(vi) volume of the block. ( take π=3 . 14 ) (12 marks)
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Uganda Certificate of Education

Graph paper is provided

1. Express 2. 42 as an improper fraction in its simplest form. (4 marks)

4. In a commercial survey, it was found that 84 customers of hotel LAX

9. Find the equation of the perpendicular line to the line 2y – 3x = 7 at the

10. Without using tables or a calculator, evaluate ; 7.46 2 – 2.542. (4marks)

(ii) values of x for which h(x) = 0

14. Of the 35 candidates in senior four, 13 registered for Biology (B), 20

16. In a certain country, income tax is levied as follows.

Taxable income (shs) Rates (%)

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