CALMATICS ACADEMIC BOARD

CANDIDATES’ FAIRWELL TEST

2021
MATHEMATICS
Time allowed : 2 hours 30 minutes

Index No. Random No. Personal No.

Candidate’s name: ………………………………………………………………………………………………

Candidate’s Signature: ………………………………………………………………………………………..
School Random No. …………………………………………………………………………………………….
District ID: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

Read the following instructions carefully: FOR EXAMINERS’

USE ONLY
1. Do not write your school or district name anywhere on Qn. No. MARKS EXR’S
this paper. NO.
2. This paper has two sections A and B. Section A has 20 1-5
questions and section B has 12 questions. This paper 6 -10
has 15 pages printed inside altogether.
11 -15
3. Answer all questions. All the working for both sections A
16 - 20
and B must be shown in the spaces provided.
4. All working must be done using a blue or black ball 21 - 22
point pen or ink. Any work done in pencil other than 23 - 24
graphs and diagrams will NOT be marked.
25 - 26
5. No calculators are allowed in the examination room.
27 - 28
6. Unnecessary changes in your work and handwriting that
cannot be easily read may lead to loss of marks. 29 - 30
7. Do not fill anything in the table indicated : “For 31 - 32
examiners’ use only” and the boxes inside the question TOTAL
paper.

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 SECTION A: 40 MARKS

Answer all questions in this Section

Questions 1 to 20 carry two marks each

1. Multiply: 2 3
× 3
______

2. Write in words: 400,302

………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Convert the time 12:45 pm into 24-hour clock system.

4. Add the following Roman numerals and give your answer in Roman
numerals.
XV + VII = ……………………………….

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5. Shade (E∩F)’ on the Venn diagram below.

E F

6. Okello bought a book at sh 6,000 and later sold it making a profit of

20%. How much profit did he make?

7. Use distributive property to work out: (8 ÷ 1.5) + (22 ÷ 1.5)

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8. Simplify: 42 %
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9. Given that the prime factors of 60 = K2 × 31 × 51, find the value of

K.

10. A half of the area of the rectangle below is 30 cm2. If its length is
12cm, workout the value of its width.

12cm

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11. If 1 US Dollar ($) costs Uganda shillings (Ug.sh) 4,900 and an
American buys Ug.sh 58,800, how much will the he/she get in US$?

12. Mangeno was born in 20BC and died 50AD. For how long did he
live?

13. Complete the diagram below correctly by filing in the missing angle.

….………
400
200

14. Work out the mean of 70, 20P and 10P + 20.

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15. When 50ten is converted to base K, the result is 200K. Calculate the
value of base K.

16. In the diagram below, line AB is parallel to line CD. Use it to find the
value of r.
A B
3r – 200
2r + 900
C D

17. A teacher gave out 50 books. Five pupils shared 0.6 of them equally
and the rest were shared by other pupils who received 4 books
each. How many pupils shared the 50 books altogether?

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18. 3 face masks and 4 sanitizers cost sh 20,500 altogether. If each
face mask costs sh 1,500, find the cost of each sanitizer.

19. Solve for m: 3(m + 2) = 21

20. Two consecutive even numbers have their sum as 66. If the second
number is (h + 2), what is the first number?

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 SECTION B: 60 MARKS

Answer all the questions in this Section

Marks for each question are indicated in brackets

21. At a teacher’s birthday party attended by 45 candidates of his class,

30 took ice cream (I), 10 took Cake only (C), (d + 1) took both
types of food while (2d – 1) took neither of the two types of food.
(a) Using the information given above, complete the Venn
diagram below. (02 marks)
n(ℇ)=45

n(M)=30 S

………… ………… 10

2d – 1

(b) Calculate the value of d. (02 marks)

(c) How many candidates took only ice cream? (01 marks)

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22. Turyatunga did part of his take home-work as shaded on the
diagram below in the first week of the holiday.

If he did ⅓ of what had remained in the second week and the rest
in the third week,
(a) What fraction of the work did he do in the third week?
(02 marks)

(b) If he did 40 questions in the second week, how many

questions did he do in the third week? (03 marks)

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23. The figure below is a cuboid. Study it carefully and answer the
questions that follow.

30cm

20cm
40cm
(a) Find the length of the wire that can be used to make a cuboid
such as the one above. (02 marks)

(b) Calculate the capacity of a cuboid such as the one above.

(02 marks)

24. The table below has the same sum vertically, horizontally and
diagonally. Complete it correctly.
…….. 2 …….. 13

5 11 10 ……..

9 7 …….. 12

4 14 15 ……..

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25. The figure below shows three parallel lines joined with a transversal
line and a scalene triangle attached to the transversal. Study it
carefully and use it to answer the questions that follow.

500

700
z

2t

(a) Find the value of t. (02 marks)

(b) Work out the size of angle z in degrees. (02 marks)

26. (a) Simplify: 8e – 3(5 + e) (02 marks)

(b) Alicia is 13 years old and her friend is 2 years younger than
her. After how long will their total age be 38 years?
(02 marks)

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27. Three vehicles a truck, a Ferrari car and a Toyota car were put for a
race over a distance of 240Km. The truck travelled at a speed of
30K.p.h, the Ferrari car travelled at 120K.p.h and the Toyota car at
60K.p.h.
(a) Which vehicle won the race? (01 mark)
……………………………………………………………………………………….
(b) Calculate the time the last vehicle took to finish the race.
(02 marks)

(c) For how long did the Ferrari car arrive before the Toyota car
did? (02 marks)

28. The diagrams below represent multiplication of two numbers on

abacus. Study the diagrams carefully and use them to answer the
questions that follow.

× =

(a) Write down the two multipliers represented in the multiplication

above. (02 marks)

(b) Calculate their product and represent it on the third abacus.

(03 marks)

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29. (a) By use of a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil only,
construct a triangle PLE where side PL = 4.5 cm, angle LPE = 1200
and angle PEL = 150. (05 marks)

(b) Measure side EP in cm. (01 mark)

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30. Mukasa went to a market and paid for the following items.
3 fish at sh 6,000 each
7 oranges at sh 500 each
25 apples at sh 5000 for every five apples
Some kilograms of rice at sh 1,800 per half kilogram
A box of Weetabix at sh 12,000
Find the number of kilograms of rice he bought if he paid cash of sh
60,750 after being given a 10% discount. (06 marks)

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 9.4 + 2.6
31. (a) Work out: (02 marks)
1.57−0.97

(b) One day at Yambuzi fried meat takeaway, 60 daily customers

bought ½ Kg of meat each and 24 passing-by customers bought
¼ Kg of meat each. Find the total weight of the meat that was
bought by all these customers that day in grams. (04 marks)

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32. The graph below represents the absentees in a certain week in a
class of 50 candidates.

50

40
Number of candidates

30

20

10

0
Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun.
Days of the week

(a) Workout the average attendance of the pupils throughout the

week. (02 marks)

(b) How many less absentees were recorded than the candidates
recorded present throughout the week? (03 marks)

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