456/1

MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
2½ hours

EXTERNAL MOCK EXAMINATIONS 2022 (SET 1)

Uganda Certificate of Education
MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
2 hours 30minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
Answer all questions in section A and any five questions from section B.

Any additional question(s) answered will not be marked.

All necessary calculations must be done in the answer booklet provided; therefore, no paper
should be given for rough work.

Squared paper is provided.

Silent, non – programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables with a list of formulae
may be used.

Neat work is a must!!

Turn Over
 SECTION A: (40 MARKS)
Answer all questions in this section.

1. Factorize 1 − 𝑥𝑦 − 𝑥2 − 𝑦 completely. (04 marks)

𝑥−3 𝑥−5
2. Solve for 𝑥 in the equation − = 2 (04 marks)
4 6
5 4
3. Given that matrix 𝐴 = ( ). Find the inverse of 𝐴2 . (04 marks)
2 3

4. The table below shows the ages of army recruits.

Age (years) 20 − 22 23 − 25 26 − 28 29 − 31 32 − 34
Number of recruits 3 𝑥 12 9 2
Given that the mode is 27.5 and modal class is 26 − 28 ; find the value of 𝑥 . (04 marks)

5. Make 𝑥 the subject of the formula.

2(𝑥−𝑢𝑡)
𝑡=√ (04 marks)
𝑎

6. Given that 𝑥 ∗ 𝑦 = 𝑥(𝑥 + 1) − 𝑦(𝑦 + 1). Find the value of (−4 ∗ 2) ∗ 3 (04 marks)

7. The figure below shows points 𝑃Q𝑅𝑆 on a circle centre 𝑂. Q𝑃 is produced to 𝑋.

Angle 𝑋𝑃𝑆 = 770 and angle 𝑃𝑆𝑂 = 680 .

Q 𝑷 𝑿
770
680
𝑶 𝑺

𝑹
Find the size of angle 𝑃Q𝑂. (04 marks)

8. The area of an image is four times the area of the object under a transformation whose
𝑝 𝑝−4
matrix is ( ). Find the value of 𝑝. (04 marks)
𝑝+8 𝑝

9. Catherine is (𝑥 + 3) years old now; her sister Grace is 5 years younger but her bother John
is twice as old as Catherine. The sum of the two girls is 29. Find John’s age. (04 marks)

10. A metallic pipe 12m long is leaning against a vertical wall, with its foot 3m from the wall.
Calculate the;
(a) height of the wall where the pipe reaches. (02 marks)
(b) angle of declination of the pipe to the wall. (02 marks)

2
 SECTION B: (60 MARKS)
Answer any five questions from this section. All questions carry equal marks.

11. (a) The table below shows the number of children in 40 randomly chosen families.
Number of children(x) 0 1 2 3 4 5 Over 5 Total
Number of families(f) 6 8 12 5 3 6 0 40
State the probability that a family chosen at random has;
(i) more than 2 children (ii) 𝑃 (2 ≤ 𝑥 < 4) (05 marks)
(b) Two tetrahedral dice, with faces labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4, are thrown and the number on
which each lands is noted. The ‘score’ is the sum of these two numbers. Find the
probability that:
(i) atleast one die lands on a 3. (ii) the score is even. (07 marks)

𝑥 𝑦 2𝑥𝑦
12. (a) Simplify as far as possible. + − (04 marks)
𝑥−𝑦 𝑦+𝑥 𝑥2 −𝑦2
(b) In the figure below, 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is a rectangle with 𝐴𝐵 = 12𝑐𝑚 and 𝐵𝐶 = 7𝑐𝑚.
𝐴𝐾 = 𝐶𝑀 = 𝐷𝑁 = 𝑥𝑐𝑚. The area of the shaded part is 54𝑐𝑚2 .
𝐴 𝐾 𝐵

𝐿
7𝑐𝑚
𝑁
𝑥𝑐𝑚
𝐷 𝑀 𝐶
12𝑐𝑚
(i) Show that the area of the unshaded part is (19 − 2𝑥) 𝑐𝑚2 .
(ii) Find the possible values of 𝑥 . (08 marks)

13. A business man who deals in an agricultural produce business visited four markets in a
certain week. He bought 3 bags of beans, 5 bags of maize, 10 bags of potatoes and 3 bags of
millet from Nakasero market, then 1 bag of beans, 4 bags of potatoes and 2 bags of
millet from Nakawa market while 5 bags of beans and 1 bag of maize from Kalerwe market
and lastly 4 bags of beans, 3 bags of maize, 6 bags of potatoes and 1 bag of millet from
Busega market. He bought each bag of beans at sh. 45,000, a bag of maize at sh. 30,000, a
bag of potatoes at sh. 15,000 and a bag of millet at sh. 50,000.
He later sold all the produce he had bought at sh. 50,000 per bag of beans, sh. 35,000 per
bag of maize, sh. 18,000 per bag of potatoes sh. 55,000 per bag of millet.
(a) Write down a: (i) 4 × 4 matrix for the quantity of items bought.
(ii) 4 × 1 matrix for the price of the produce (02 marks)
(b) By matrix multiplication, calculate the total amount of money spent on the produce in
all the markets. (04 marks)
(c) Find the profit made by the business man after the sale of the produce. (06 marks)
3 Turn Over
14. (a) Draw a graph of 𝑦 = (𝑥 − 1)(𝑥 + 5) for −6 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 2 . Use a scale of 1𝑐𝑚 ∶ 1𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 on
both axes. (07 marks)
(b) Use your graph to solve the equations
(i) 𝑥 2 − 6𝑥 − 5 = 0 (ii) 𝑥2 − 𝑥 − 6 = 0 (05 marks)

15. In the figure below, 𝑃𝐿 and 𝑃𝑀 are tangents from 𝑃 to the circle with centre, 𝐶 and radius
5cm.
𝐿

𝑁 𝐶 430 𝑃

Calculate:
𝑀
(a) (i) angle 𝐿𝐶𝑀 (ii) length 𝐶𝑃 (06 marks)
(b) the area of the shaded part, correct to 2sf. (03 marks)
(c) the area of the quadrilateral 𝐿𝐶𝑀𝑁 to the nearest cm2. (03 marks)

16. A triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶 with vertices 𝐴(2, 1), 𝐵(4, 1) and 𝐶(3, 4) is mapped onto triangle 𝐴′𝐵′𝐶′
by an enlargement with centre (0, 0) and scale factor 2. When 𝐴𝐵𝐶 is enlarged by scale
factor −2, centre (0, 0), it is mapped onto triangle 𝐴′′𝐵′′𝐶′′.

(a) Use a scale of 1cm to represent 1unit on both axes to plot triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶 and its images
on the same axes. (10 marks)
(b) Determine the coordinates of the vertices:
(i) 𝐴′ , 𝐵′ and 𝐶′ (ii) 𝐴′′ , 𝐵′′ and 𝐶′′ (02 marks)

17. According to the Ministry of Disaster Preparedness, a depot for vulnerable poor relief
should have at most 20 bags of beans and 35 bags of flour. The mass, volume and number
of meal ratios per bag are as shown in the table below.

Bag of: Mass (kg) Volume (m3) Number of meals

Beans 25 0.05 800
Flour 10 0.05 160
A delivery van is to carry the largest possible number of bags. It can carry a mass of up to
600kg occupying 2m3.
(a) If a load is made up of 𝑥 bags of beans and 𝑦 bags of flour, write down six
inequalities for the given information. (05 marks)
(b) Represent the inequalities on a graph paper by shading the unwanted regions.
(Use a scale of 2cm to represent 5 units on both axes) (04 marks)
(c) Determine the number of bags of beans and flour that should be delivered to
make the total number of meal ratios the largest. (03 marks)

END
4