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MATHEMATICS

Paper 1

2024

2 hours

SAYIDINA ABUBAKAR SECONDARY SCHOOL

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

S.3 END OF CYCLE ASSESEMENT

MATHEMATICS

Paper 1

2 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

• Attempt item 4 and 2 other items

• Answer three examination items in all.
• Any additional item(s) answered will not be scored.
• All answers must be written in the answer booklet(s) provided.
• Graph paper is provided use them where necessary.
• Silent, non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables with a list
of formulae may be used.

Answer any three items in all (item 4 is compulsory).

Item 1.

An investor wishes to buy a piece of land (family land) from your father to construct a
factory. Your father and the whole family members have already accepted to have this
land sold to this investor. The land is rectangular in shape and measures 150m by 100m in
size. One longest side of this land is having its boundary covered by a water body. The
investor is to pay each square meter of this land Uganda shs. 300000 according to the
agreed terms and conditions regarding land price negotiation in this community .The
investor is to fence the land immediately after payment.

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Task.

a) As a senior three student, help your father and the whole family to determine the
amount of money they should accept to receive from this investor for the whole
piece of land (offer them understandable explanation where necessary).

b) If the investor is to fence this piece of land with barbed wire excluding or leaving
out the side bounded by the water body and each roll of a barbed wire covers a
distance of 25 meters in fencing and cost Uganda shs. 100000. Advice this
investor on the amount of money he should have in order to fence this land.

Item 2

A group of uneducated tourists came to visit Lira city in Uganda. Having reached the
capital Kampala, they got confused onto what distance they are suppose to cover and the
amount of fuel to fill in the vehicle tank to cover this distance( from Kampala to Lira city)
yet they were even provided with the scale map shown in fig. 1 below. The map clearly
shows the location of these two cities.

The map is drawn on a scale of 1 cm representing 60km (1:60) .

Fig 1. Shows part of the scale map given to tourist by the tourist guides on reaching
Kampala.

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Task

a) The tourist are to follow a direct route from Kampala to lira. As a senior three
student you have been instructed to guide these tourists basing on the scale
map they have been given (refer to fig 1). In your guidance use their map to
determine and explain to them the actual distance they are to cover in travelling
from Kampala to Lira.

b) In each kilometer a diesel engine tourist vehicle consumes ¼ liter of fuel and a
petrol engine tourist vehicle consumes ½ liter of fuel. Determine the amount of
fuel the tourist will have to fill in the vehicle tank in order to complete the
journey from Kampala to Lira if they are to use:

i) A diesel engine tourist vehicle.

ii) A petrol engine tourist vehicle.

C) If each liter of petrol cost shs. 2500 and each liter of diesel cost shs. 6000.
Advice the tourist which vehicle is most suitable for their journey and why?

Item 3

The government of Uganda is to set up a project in Kabasanda village, Butambala district.

For this project to be set up, a group of villagers is to be displaced from their own land
and compensated in cash money in order to relocate themselves to other places. The table
below shows the affected villagers and pieces of land in hectares they own that are to be
compensated.

Names Land (in hectares)

1. Kateregga 2
2. Kirunda 3
3. Wasswa 1
4. Katende 4
5. Ssebagala 3
Table 1

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Task

a) i) If in each hectare of land, a villager is to be given a compensation fee of shs.

2000000 and added a settlement allowance of shs. 800000. Form a mathematical
function showing the relationship between the pieces of land (in hectares) and the
total amount of money to be received in compensation. Taking x as pieces of land
(in hectares) and f(x) as the total amount of money to be compensated.

(ii) Using the relationship derived in a (i) above represent the above information on
an arrow diagram. Show clearly the amount each villager will get in compensation.

b) Kirunda has just bought a piece of land in this village (3 hectares) at shs.
4000000 but unfortunately is amongst the people to be displaced as shown in table
1 above. Determine whether Kirunda will lose his land with a profit or loss and by
how much.

c) Mr. Higenyi have 15 hectares of land in the same village. Determine by calculation
how much he would have received in compensation if the whole of his land was to
be covered up by the project set up plan.

Item 4(a)

In an attempt to have some s.3 girls (suspected to be pregnant) tested for pregnancy at
Sayidina Abubakar Secondary School, the school nurse decided to first measure the
weight (kgs) of each suspected girl. The results for the weights were obtain and recorded
as follows; 40, 42, 45,50,40,36,60,42,50,40,36,55,45,45. She is to use this data to decide
whether these girls should undergo through the pregnancy test or not.

Task

a) i) Summarise for the school nurse the above information (data collected) in a
frequency distribution table.
ii) According to the school nurse, if the average weight of these girls exceed 50kg,
all of them are to go through the pregnancy test. Help the school nurse to decide
whether to continue with this exercise (pregnancy test) or not. Give a reason.

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iii) Determine the difference in weight between the heaviest girl and the
lightest girl recorded by the school nurse

iv) What weight is being shared by many girls according to your frequency
distribution table

Item 4(b)

Sayidina Abubakar Secondary School has just bought a new school bus a few weeks
ago and the school stakeholders need to know the amount of fuel consumed by this
bus per week for proper adjustment on the school budget. In an attempt to respond
to this concern, the head teacher provided the committee with the information
summarised in table 2. Unfortunately he couldn’t recall the right amount of fuel
this bus consume every Wednesdays and Thursdays ; all he could remember
correctly is that this bus uses the same amount of fuel on Wednesday and on
Thursday and that on average, fuel consumption of this bus for the whole week is
10 liters

Days Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Fuel 10 7 8 12 15
(liters)
Table 2

Task

i) From the information the head teacher has given, help the secretary of this
committee to determine the amount of fuel the bus consume on Wednesday and
Thursday

ii) If each liter of fuel cost shs. 3500. Advice this committee on the amount to be
budgeted if this bus is to run for 4 consecutive weeks without resting even a single
day.

***END** SUCCESS! SUCCESS!

“FOSTERING THE SCIENTIFIC MINDSET”

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