SENIOR FOUR SCENARIO QUESTIONS

1. You went to a casino and decided to play a game of chance. The dealer shuffles a standard pack of
52 playing cards and offers you a bet; if you draw a card that meets certain conditions, you win
different prizes depending on the conditions you meet. The conditions are:

i) If you draw a 6 or a king, you win a Consolation Prize of UGX 10,000. ii) If you
draw a club or an ace, you win a Bronze Prize of UGX 50,000. iii) If you draw a black
card (spades or clubs) or a heart, you win a Silver Prize of UGX100,000.
iv) If you draw the ace of spades, you win the Grand Prize of UGX 1,000,000!

TASK
a) Find the likelihood of winning the consolation prize.
b) Find the chance of winning bronze price.
c) Find the odds in your favor of winning the silver prize.
d) Find the possibility of winning the grand prize.

2. A wildlife conservationist creates a TikTok account to track and analyze animal population trends.
Her business plan states that her goal is to reach 50,000 subscribers by the end of 2 years (24 months
from now). She hopes that if she achieves this goal, her site will be featured on a prominent National
Geographic Channel. The initial user base resulting from pre-launch social media campaigns is 400
subscribers.

The wildlife conservationist posted a video on her TikTok account and initially had 80 views as soon

the exponential growth function 𝐲 = 𝟖𝟎𝐞𝟎.𝟐𝐭, where t represents time measured in days since the
as it was posted. The total number of views to date has been increasing exponentially according to

video was posted and y represents the total number of views.

TASK
a) Assuming a constant monthly growth rate, what rate is required to achieve 50,000 subscribers
at the end of 24 months?"
b) How many days does it take until 2500 people have viewed her video?

3. The Art and Photography exhibition is being held on a large circular walking path of diameter 50m
surrounding a gorgeous sculpture of height 6m situated in the center of the circular path. Three
entrances to the exhibition A, B and C are marked on the circular walking path. Two entrances A
and B are marked on the circular path forming a central angle of 60o and the third entrance C, is
marked on the shorter length of the circular path between A and B in such a way that it is equidistant
from entrances A and B.
 The event organizer ordered for two rectangular boxes each of dimensions 8m×6mx4m to transport
the sculpture and photography equipment. To minimize the amount of storage space needed for
transportation, the rectangular boxes should be modified by cutting a triangular prism-shaped section
from each rectangular box, with a cross section that is an isosceles triangle with base 6m and height
4m.

The event photographer captured a shot of the fountain sculpture but later found out that it was
distorted and to enhance the image quality he used image editing software and applied the following
transformations to obtain a clearer image:
- Rotated the image 45° clockwise about the origin.
- Enlarged the image by a scale of 2.
- Reflected the image across the y-axis to flip the mirror image.

TASK:
a) i) Find the portion of length of the circular path from entrance A to entrance B.
ii) Find the inclination between the positions of entrances A, B and C. iii) If a person 1.8 m tall
stands on entrance C and looks towards the fountain top, find the angle of elevation to the top
of the fountain.
b) i) Find the storage space needed for each box if they are not to be cut into triangular prisms.
ii) Sketch the unfolded shape (net) of the cross-section formed when the triangular
prismshaped section is cut from the rectangular boxes. iii) Determine the surface area of each
triangular prism. . iv) Calculate the total storage space saved by cutting the rectangular boxes
into triangular prism shaped section boxes.
c) Find a single rectangular array of numbers that can undo all the transformations to obtain the
original image before corrections.

4. Imagine you are a photographer capturing stunning landscapes. One day, you come across a
strange flower that changes color with each passing day. Intrigued by its beauty, you decide to
document this color-changing phenomenon. On the first day, the flower is bright red and its colour
intensity is 200 units. However, each day it fades by 10% of its color intensity.

In your photographic pursuits, you encounter a different flower that gains color intensity over
time. This flower starts with an intensity of 50 units and increases by 15% each day.

Continuing your exploration, you stumble upon a glowing firefly that emits light. The firefly's
light intensity decreases exponentially over time and the initial light intensity of the firefly is 100
units, and it decreases by 5% every hour.

As a final challenge, you encounter a block of ice that melts at a constant rate. Initially, the ice
block weighs 500 grams, and it melts at a rate of 2% of its weight per hour.
 TASK
a) How many days will it take for the color intensity to drop below 50 units?
b) How many days will it take for the color intensity to exceed 200 units?
c) How many hours will it take for the light intensity to fall below 10 units?
d) How many hours will it take for the ice block to melt to 200 grams?

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Kaira prepared a birthday party at her home and invited her friends between the age of 20 to 54 years.
She wanted to confirm which age bracket mostly could attend her party. So, she grouped them starting
with (20 – 24) years. The people attended were of age,

TASK
a) Using clear mathematical procedures, find the age bracket which mostly attended her party and the
most frequent age that attended her party.
b) Find the likelihood that the people who attend her party are of age ranging from 25 years to 36 years.

7. A produce wholesale dealer in Kalerwe Farmers Market has a broker who has been helping him order
for his produce on his half. However he has been informed that his broker left for Saudi Arabia in quest
for greener pastures, he is much troubled yet he wants to order for 1200 bags of produce. He visited his
business books and noticed that in January, when he bought 300 bags, the cost of transporting each bag
was UGX 4500 and in February when he bought 700 bags, the cost of transporting each bag was UGX
8500. He has resorted to do the ordering and buying by himself. In preparation for Easter he went to

two vehicles a Pickup and an Isuzu Diana. The pickup can transport 𝟏𝟖𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐬 while the Isuzu Diana
Luuka Village to buy some produce with his lorry. Unfortunately his Lorry broke down and opted for

Isuzu Diana makes cost UGX 240,000 and UGX 300,000 respectively yet he has allocated UGX
can transport 30 bags. The number of bags to be transported must exceed 120. Each trip the Pickup and

2,400,000 to cater for transport. The number of trips made by the pickups should not exceed those
made by the Isuzu Diana by more than 2.

TASK:
a) Determine the cost the whole sale dealer will pay for the 1200 bags.
b) Help the dear obtain how many trips each vehicle will make in order to minimize the cost of
transport.
8. A school head teacher is thinking of how he can boost the mathematics department of your school. He
can either add another teacher or buy more books or both. He has decided that he will do both if the
average performance for this year’s performance for the 40 students is lower than that of the previous
which was. He asked the department to give a test and the these were the students’ marks.

50 71 40 48 61 70 30 62
44 63 60 51 55 25 32 65
54 45 65 50 45 40 25 45
48 45 30 38 30 28 24 48
30 48 28 35 50 48 50 60

He also visited the library and found out that the previous’s candidates used three books for there

candidates that did not use any book failed the subject greatly. Out of the 𝟑𝟓 candidates this year 𝟏𝟑
revision. Longhorn, Baroque or Maths Clinic. From the librarian’s records its is clear that all the

used Longhorn, 𝟐𝟎 used Baroque and 𝟏𝟕 used Maths Clinic. 𝟗 used Longhorn and Maths Clinic, used
Longhorn and Baroque while 𝟖 used Baroque and Maths Clinic only. The records show that 2 used all
the three books. He observed that he should replace one book type of the three with Fountain publisher
since no student read it only alone.

TASKS:
a) (i) Help the head teacher group the marks to make an informed decision one the fate of the department
and defend it.
(ii) Display the students marks in groups on a simple statistics diagram.
(b) (i) Help the head teacher identify the book he should replace and explain why?
(ii) Find the probability that a student selected from the class failed.

12. A friend of yours wanted to participate in the National Ludo Champions competitions. During his
practice, he rolled a die several times and kept on taking a picture of each occurrence. He needs to find
out whether he will compete favorably but he is unable to do so. He gives you the diagram below
showing his scores so that you can guide him.

JJJ Tasks:
 (a) Use the information above and clearly show how to determine the score with the highest chance of
occurring on top. Which score is it?
(b) Find the probability that an odd number occurred when the die was rolled.
(c) Present the information of the above scores on a statistical graph.
(d) Will your friend compete favorably in the competitions?

13. A certain catering and decoration company was called to cook 100kg of rice at a certain party.
According to their cooking notes, they put 22.5 liters of water in 10kg of rice and 67.5 liters of water in
30kg of rice. They want to use those notes to know how many liters to use in the rice they are ordered to
cook but they are finding it hard.
The customer wants a tent at less than UGX.250, 000 and chairs at UGX.200, 000 at most. However to
maximize profit, the company wishes to provide both at UGX.400, 000 at least. The company is finding
it hard to decide on how much to charge the customer for the two items respectively.

TASK:
(a) (i) Form a mathematical relationship between the quantity of rice and liters of water used to cook it
according to their notes.
(ii) Use the relationship developed to help them determine the liters they will use in the rice they are
ordered to cook.
(b) (i) Form inequalities that are making it hard for the company to decide on how much to charge the
tents and chairs respectively
(ii) Use the inequalities, to help them decide on how much to charge for the tents and chairs
respectively.

14. 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 maximise sales by selling each goat at Shs200,000 and each cow at Shs1.5 millions but
they do not know the number of goats and cows to sell to fulfill their wish.
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.

15. 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 advise, 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?

16. 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 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.

17. 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 neighbour to estimate the amount of money to be borrowed from the bank for either type of
iron sheets.
(b) Give your neighbour advice, with reason(s), on the type of iron sheets to buy.

18. Your friend wants to sell dresses in your home area according to age. She requests you to recommend
the age range that she can sell. You wish to recommend an age range with the modal age being the
highest. Below is the summary of data you gathered:
Age groups (Years) 30 - 34 35 - 39 40 - 44 45 - 49 50 - 54 55 - 59
Number of People 6 3 13 7 4 3
TASK

(i) Which age range will you recommend according to your data?

(i) What is the probability that your friend will succeed if she accepts your recommendation?
(i) According to the probability, is your recommendation a good choice? (Justify your answer)

19. Hadijah a small-scale farmer stays in a very hot environment and wants to build a shed for her cattle.
She has sketched the framework of the milking shed as shown below.

The walls are 10 metres apart. The top of the roof is halfway between the walls. The sloping roof rafters
meet at an angle of 120°.
 TASK;

i.Construct a scale drawing of the cross-section of the milking shed.

ii.What scale have you used? iii.What is the
length of the roof rafter? iv.What is the angle
of inclination of the roof?
v.Sketch the same roof if the angle of inclination is more than what you obtained in (d) without
changing the dimensions of the milking shed.

20. Mary usually sets off from a landing site that is located on coordinate O (9, 7) on the grid map to island
A which is located at coordinate A (6, 3) during her day off. Island A is south east of landing site O.
This time she plans to extend her tour from island A to another island B that is 9km north east of island
A and then sail back to the landing site through the direct route.
She plans to tour around island A for 3hours and around island B for 4 hours. Her journey is to start at
10:00am. She hopes to be back by 20:00hours since she has work the following day. She wants to know
if it's possible to return by that time. The boat is usually ridden at an average speed of 64km/hr.
She is in charge of paying her fellow workers. Some workers were given a salary increment to
UGX.650, 000. This includes allowances of UGX. 120, 000. She needs to know how much income tax
she is to deduct from them and the net amount she is to pay them using the tax bands below:

TAXABLE INCOME (UGX) TAX RATES (%)

0 - 200,000 0
200,001 - 400,000 10
400,001 - 600,000 15
TASK
a) (i) what is the total distance they are to sail?
(ii) What is the total time the entire tour will take inclusive of the time the boat will
take to sail the whole journey?
(iii) will she make it back at the planned time? (Justify your answer) b) How
much will she pay her fellow workers?

21. Janat is a carpenter. She specialises in making bookshelves with different numbers of compartments.
She uses 12 nails for the base of a bookshelf, and 9 more nails for each compartment in the bookshelf.
 Obong ordered a bookshelf with 1 compartment.

Achen ordered a bookshelf with 2 compartments.

Nambi ordered a bookshelf with 3 compartments.

Mugisha ordered a bookshelf with 4 compartments.

a) Complete the table to show the number of nails that Janat used to make each of the four
bookshelves.
Number of compartments 1 2 3 4

Number of nails
b) Janat recognised a pattern in the number of nails he used to make the bookshelves with 1, 2, 3 and 4
compartments.
(i) Write two numbers to complete this algebraic expression to show the number of nails (n) that Janat
needs to make a bookshelf with b compartments.
(ii) What does the first number in the algebraic expression represent?

(iii) What does the second number in the algebraic expression represent?

c) Janat received a new order, fo r 4 bookshelves with 6 compartments. She has to

buy nails.Nails are sold in kilograms. In a kilogram there are 32 nails. Each
kilogram costs UGX 5,000. How much did Janat pay for the nails for the new
order?
22. Okot wants to paint his room. The floor of the room is 5m long and 4m wide. The room is 3m high. The
room has two doors each fixed in the walls that are opposite to each other, both 2m high and 75cm wide.
It has one window in one of the longer walls. It is 1m square.

a) Draw a sketch of Okot’s room. Indicate the measurements of the floor, height, doors and window.
b) A painter charges UGX 800 per square meter. How much money will Okot pay for the painter?
c) A 4-litre tin of paint costs UGX 70,000 and it paints 12m square of the wall. The walls already have
an undercoat paint.
i) How many tins would Okot need to buy in order to paint his room?
ii) How much money will Okot require to paint his room?

23. John would like to continue with his studies at A-Level. He is challenged with raising tuition of UGX
200,000. John is gifted with a skill of making jewelry crafts. He has saved some money that can only
help him buy glue and strings. So, he moves to different homes requesting for old calendars. From the
old calendars, he makes necklaces and earrings. A necklace takes him an hour to make and sells for a
profit UGX800. The pair of earrings takes him two hours to make but he gets a profit of UGX2000. He
likes to make a variety by making at least as many necklaces as pairs of earrings. He has approximately
40hours per week for creating jewelry. He also knows that the crafts show vender wants sellers to have
more than 20 items on display at the beginning of the show. Assuming he sells all his inventory, help
him find;

a) how many of each of necklaces and earrings he should make to maximise his profit.
b) how much profit he makes in a week.
c) how many weeks he requires to raise his tuition?

24. A camping supply company produces back packs in two models; journey and trek. The journey models
requires 4 hours of labour and the company makes a profit of Shs 40,000. The trek model requires 6
hours of labour and the company makes a profit of Shs 80,000. The distributor will accept no more than
4 trek models and 15 journey models per week.

Task:
(a) Write mathematical statements that show the relation between the two models.
(b) Show the feasible region of the relation on the Cartesian plane.
(c) If you were the manager, determine the minimum number of hours of labour that are required for
the company to make a profit of at least Shs 400,000 per week.

25. A telecommunication company plans to introduce a new minutes bundle on the menu and employs
callers to investigate people’s opinion on the minutes of the package that will cost 1200Shs. The callers
made a survey on random calls of the customers to gather their opinion and use the average minutes.
They collected the data collected below.
 52 36 76 51 62 70 50 45
86 69 72 85 71 80 50 49
53 49 84 72 84 70 56 54
88 66 75 78 78 57 64 58
65 42 42 43 43 64 74 53
Task:

(a) Giving a reason based on computations using the collected data, suggest the suitable number of
minutes to be added on the menu.
(b) The supervisor wishes to know the number of people who prefer minutes greater than 60. Help
him/her to estimate this number of people.

26. Your brother received Shs 597,000 as a salary and complains of underpayment exhibited in one of
the private secondary schools in which he was employed as a teacher at the start of the year. He
further says the biggest percentage of his money goes to the government as tax. On acquiring the job
he signed a three-year contract with the following terms and conditions. A teacher’s monthly gross
income has certain allowances deducted from it before it is subjected to the government income tax
band. The allowances are as follows.
• Married teacher Shs 18,000 per month
• Un married teacher Shs 12,000 per month
• Each child below 11 years Shs 5,000 per month
• Each child above 11 years but below 18 years Shs 7,000 per month
• Each lesson taught Shs 3,000
• Each examination invigilated Shs 5000
• Meeting allowance Shs 50,000 per meeting
• Housing allowance Shs 240,000 per month
• Lunch allowance Shs 2,000 per day
Government Income Tax Band
Tax income (Shs) Tax rate (%)
0 – 100,000 10
100,001 – 200,000 25
200,001 – 300,000 30
300,001 – 400,000 45
400,000 and above 50

Your brother earns a monthly a gross pay of 1,240,000 he is married with 3 children of ages 10, 15 and
19. Given that he has 64 lessons taught in a month, attended beginning of term staff meeting and
invigilated 5 examination sessions. Hint: A month has 30 days.

Task:
(a) Help him find how much money and its percentage he pays to the government as tax.

(b) Establish the take home pay of your brother and advise him if there could be something wrong with
his payment transactions.

27. Mr. kyagulanyi is a physician who works with Uganda Research Institute and they carried out search
on rampart causes of eyes infection on young population (youth) and they discovered that most of
them spent hours on television watching different kinds of programs, and their time of watching was
recorded to the nearest hours.
1 3 0 3 1 4 5 4 3 2
0 4 6 2 2 2 3 2 2 7
3 1 0 2 3 3 0 1 7 2
5 4 2 1 1 3 4 2 4 4
0 0 1 2 1 3 1 2 7 2
Tasks:
i) Help Mr. kyagulanyi organize his data in suitable table.
ii) Represent Mr. kyagulanyi ‘s research data in a suitable statistical data presentation showing
degrees.
iii) State the modal and medium time.
iv) With reasoning suggest others ways that may cause eye infection.

28. 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, 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 can 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?

29. Your classmates are arguing whether to produce Sausages(S), or Popcorns (P), or cakes(C) or
daddies (D) for the school project. To solve the argument, your class teacher assigned you as the
group manager to make research and present the findings on a diagram and hence use it to decide.
You questioned a group of 40 students from different classes of which product they prefer and below
where there responses:
30.
 S P S S C P P S P S
C D C D D S S P S S
S S P P P P P D S D
P P P S S S C C S S
TASK:

a) Fulfill the teacher’s assignment.

b) Which product do you think you and your fellow students will end up producing?

31. You are to participate in a Ludo game at school. Each of you was told to carry a dice that will help
him or her to win. When you reached home, you decided to test your dice by rolling it 60 times
while recording the value that appears. Below were the results of each roll you made:

TASK:
a) Summarize your scores.
b) Basing on your summary, which one is your lucky number on the dice?
c) Odd numbers and even numbers, which of the two has the highest probability on your dice?
d) You want to show your results to one of your friends at home so that he can help you to decide
whether to take your dice or not. However, your friend understands diagrams more than
numbers. Come up with a diagram that you will show to your friend.

32. A company was contracted to transport 1200 tonnes of sand. The company used type A and type B
trucks to do the job. Each type A truck carries 10 tonnes of sand per trip while each type B truck
carries 15 tonnes per trip. The total number of trips must not be less than 70 and type B trucks must
make at least twice as many trips as type A trucks while the latter i.e. type A, must not make less
than 10 trips. Taking x to represent the number of trips made by type A trucks and y to represent the
number of trips made by type B trucks.

TASK:
(a) write down all the inequalities representing the above information.
(b) Represent the inequalities in (a) graphically. The company makes a profit of Shs 2000 per trip
made by each type A truck and Shs 3000 per trip made by each type B truck.
(c) (i) Write down the objective function for profit.
(ii) Determine the number of trips, each type of truck must make to maximize the profit.
 (iii) Hence calculate the maximum profit.

33. In MAXWEL STATIONERY SHOP, the manager gets the monthly allowances as follows.
Medical Shs 480,000 per annum
Transport Shs 50, 000
Housing Shs 10% of the gross monthly income Marriage
Shs of the gross annual income.
Lunch Shs 7,500 per week
Family allowance for four children using following system
12 years and below Shs 3000
Above 12 years but below 18 years Shs 2000

Okurut earns a gross annual income of shs 9,180,000 and his children are aged 5, 9, 15, 17 and
22. His tax structure is given below.
Taxable income (Shs) Rate (%)
0 – 130, 000 5.0
130, 001 – 260, 000 10.0
260,001 – 360, 000 15.0
360,001 – 400, 000 20.5
Above 400, 000 30.0

TASK:
(a) Calculate Okurut’s
(i) Monthly taxable income
(ii) Monthly income tax
(b)Express the net income paid as a percentage of his gross monthly income. (Correct
your answer to 1 d.p)

34. 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. 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.
35. 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 a table. 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 litres.

Days Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun

Fuel 10 7 8 12 15
(litres)

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.

36. Your school demonstration farm holds monthly sales of cattle on the first Saturday of every month.
How the farm care taker has noticed that there is a trend of the same animals remaining un sold
every month because the farm attendants just select the animals which are near, and so he wants to
obtain the average weight of all animals at the farm. He has agreed that this month all animals with a
weight greater than the average weight of the animals be sold each at UGX 890,000 per animal. The
data in kg of the weights of the animals is given in the table below.

Additionally he is going to sell 15 goats, 25 sheep and 10 ducks each at UGX140,000 per goat,
UGX215,000 per sheep and UGX36,000 per duck respectively.
Task
(a) Giving a reason based on calculations, using the data collected, suggest the most minimum
mass that can be accepted to be sold on this first Saturday this month.
(b) How many cattle will be sold on this first Saturday this month.
(c) Help the farm care taker know how much money he expects to get from the sales this month.

37. Malaria is a life threatening disease spread through mosquitoes that feed on humans, with symptoms
such as high fevers and shaking chills. As one of the top diseases impacting Ugandans, it is at a risk
to cover 90% of the Ugandan Population and is a leading cause of sickness and death especially in
 children. The mosquitoes breed easily in bushy areas and in stagnant water and in order to prevent it,
health official have advised that we sleep under a mosquito net, slash all the bush around us and
remove all stagnant water around us. In a bid to curb the disease, health officials from your district
visited your village to distribute mosquito nets, however they found that some homes were harboring
mosquitoes around us.

Fifty two homes were visited in your village, it was found that only four homes had mosquito
nets, had cleared all the bushes around and had no stagnant water around and thus had managed
to control malaria, the other homes had problems of malaria. It was found that equal number of
homes had neither mosquito nets nor had slashed their bushes, of which twelve homes had no
mosquito nets and had not slashed their bushes round them, thus harboring mosquitoes. Twenty
four homes all together had stagnant water available in their soak pits and open manholes, of
whom eleven had neither mosquito nets nor removed the stagnant water. Thirteen homes had
bushes around and also had stagnant water present in their homes. Eight homes had no single
mosquito net, had huge bushes around and had stagnant water in their homes.

Task:
(a) Determine the number of mosquito nets to be distributed, if each home that lacked a mosquito
net was to be given exactly four nets.
(b) Calculate the probability that a home visited needed also to have their bushes slashed.
(c) Display the data on a statistical diagram.
(d) Advise the district officials with reason based on calculations to come up with control
measures for malaria.

38. National Medical Stores (NMS) is a government parastatal mandated to procure, store and distribute
essential medicines and medical supplies to all public health facilities in the country. It uses trucks
and lorries to do the distribution. However there is concern about delay of the trucks to return to the
parking lot in Wandegeya. On a particular day a lorry and a truck are sent to deliver drugs to Hoima
Regional referral hospital and Kiryandongo hospital respectively. They were expected to return to
the parking lot in Wandegeya which is exactly half way between Hoima and Kiryandongo. Both
vehicles drive at a steady speed of 80km/hr and set off at 3:00am from the NMS offices in Entebbe.
From the point of setting off the lorry turns in the direction of 060o and drives with a steady speed
reaching Hoima at 6:00am. The lorry sets off from NMS offices and moves to Kiryandongo which is
330km the offices in the direction of 200o each spends averagely two and half hours off loading the
drugs.

Task.

(a) Help the manager record the time each vehicle is expected to return to the parking lot in
Wandegeya.
(b) What is shortest distance between Entebbe and Wandegeya.
(c) In your view how can the health system be improved in your area.
39. Your is starting a poultry farm after getting funds from the parish development model PDM. Your
neighbor borrowed UGX48.52 millions from PDM to be returned after one and half years at a rate of
0.5% per month simple interest a so he has ordered for chicken drinkers from Biyinzika Poultry
Farmers with the shape ABCD in which ABCD is a rectangle and ADE is a semi-circle of diameter
AD.
BC = 20cm, AB = 10cm and CH = 50cm.

Biyinzika Poultry farmers sells the each drinker at UGX 21,500, but offers a discount of 10
percentage on the total cost for every fifty drinkers and an additional 5% on the total cost on any
excess of 50 drinkers bought. Because your neighbor is buying five hundred birds, he intends to buy
80 drinkers but does not know the capacity of each drinker which will help him buy water tank to
harvest the water for the business.
Task:
(a) Help your neighbor estimate how much money he will return to the PDM after the one and
half years.
(b) How much will he spend on buying the drinkers.
(c) Estimate the capacity of each drinker and advise your neighbor, with reasons on the capacity
of the tank to buy.

40. Henry is a farmer in Mityana district who practices both farming and rearing of animals on a large
scale. Due to demand of products that come out of animals, henry puts much emphasis on rearing of
birds and cows on his farm. All together there at least 200 heads of birds and cows and There are at
most 240 legs of birds and cows on the farm, the number of birds on the farm are two times than
cows on the farms. Henry wishes to maximizes profits by selling each bird at shs. 50,000 and each
cow at shs.1.5million but doesn’t know the number of birds and cows to sell to fulfill his wish.

Task:

(a) write mathematical statements that show the relation between the cows and birds.
(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.

41. A school headteacher is thinking of how he can boost the mathematics department of your school.
He can either add another teacher or buy more books or both. He has decided that he will do both if

previous which was 47. He asked the department to give a test and the these were the student’s
the average performance for this year’s performance for the 40 students is lower than that of the

marks.

He also visited the library and found out that the previous candidates used three books for there

candidates that did not use any book failed the subject greatly. Out of the 35 candidates this year 13
revision. Longhorn, Baroque or Maths Clinic. From the librarian’s records its clear that all the

used Longhorn, 20 used Baroque and 17 used Maths Clinic. 9 used Longhorn and Maths Clinic, 3
used Longhorn and Baroque while 8 used Baroque and Maths Clinic only. The records show that 2
used all the three books. He observed that he should replace one book type of the three with Fountain
publisher since no student read it only alone.

TASKS:
(a) (i) Help the head teacher group the marks to make an informed decision one the fate of the
department and defend it.
(ii) Display the students marks in groups on a simple statistics diagram.
(b) (i) Help the head teacher identify the book he should replace and explain why?
(ii) Find the probability that a student selected from the class failed.

41. An organization wants to build a school in a certain community. Below were the reasons they

𝐀 = school is boring. 𝐁 = no school fees. 𝐂 = we want to work.

identified as to why children were not schooling.

They carried out research on a sample of 𝟓𝟎 children in that community to find out which
reason has the highest probability amongst the above and hence base on that to either build the
school or not. Children gave one reason, others gave two and the others gave three as shown
below.
TASKS:
(a) Present the data in such a way that the total responses for each reasons A, B and C respectively
are clearly shown
(b) (i) Which reason has the highest probability?
(ii) What is the probability?
(iii) Basing on the value of probability should they build the school or not?
Give a reason for your answer.

42. A carpenter is re-known for crafting traditional wooden doors with elaborate geometric patterns.
The carpenter wishes to make a door with a circular design at its center. The carpenter needs to

is rectangular with dimensions 2.5 meters in height and 1.5 meters in width. The circular design
ensure the design fits perfectly within the rectangular frame of the door. The door frame available

should be touching the two parallel sides of the door frame. Vanish is packed in tins of a litre and
the cost of one litre of vanish is UGX 9,000. It is known that one litre of vanish can be used to
paint one square meter.

TASKS:
(a) (i)Help the carpenter determine how much of the door will be covered by the circular design so
that it fits perfectly within the door frame.
(ii) Will one tin of vanish be enough for the circular design? Give a reason for your response.
(b) With a reason(s), help the carpenter determine how much will be spent to buy vanish that will
paint the entire front face of the door.

43. You are an athlete and soon competing with someone. You wanted to test your chances of winning
the race by testing your speed and time in relation to that of your competitor you started to run at
 4:50pm. From your home where you started from, you ran a distance of 5km northwest to place P,
then from P, you turned south and ran 4km until you were at place Q that is west of your home and
then ran back and arrived at 5:12pm. Your competitor ran the same distance during training at a
speed of 10m/s.

Tasks:
(a) What is the total distance that you ran?
(b) What is the total time you took to run that distance?
(c) How fast were you?
(d) (i) Do you think you will win the race or not?
(ii) Why do you think that way?

44. St Paul’s Kitovu Secondary school is to transport its S.4 students for fieldwork in Kasenyi. All the
400 students are to be transported using either coasters or buses. Each coaster can carry 40 people
while each bus can carry 80 people. The transport department of the school has only 8 drivers on
duty and up to four coasters. If the cost of hiring a coaster is shs. 150,000 and that of hiring a bus is
shs. 300,000.
While in Kasenyi their geography teacher Mr Kefa visited Mr Sembatya’s shop from which he
found that three shirts and two trousers cost shs. 105,000 at Mr. Sembatya’s shop. Two shirts
and five trousers cost shs. 180,000 at the same shop; Task:
(a) (i) Write down the five inequalities representing the above information.
(ii) Represent the inequalities on a graph paper.
(iii) Find the possible number of coasters and buses that can be used and hence determine
the minimum cost.
(b) Find the cost of;
(i) each shirt and each trouser.
(ii) three items of each type at the shop.

45. Kampala (K) and Arua (A) are about 450km apart. At 7:30a.m, a bus starts from Arua and moves
towards Kampala (K) at a steady speed of 100km/hr while a lorry starts from Kampala (K) an hour
later moving at an average speed of 60km/hr to Arua (A). At 10.00a.m, the bus is stopped at town
C by police and ordered to reduce speed. After 30 minutes at C, it resumes its journey at a reduced
average speed of 50km/hr until it reaches Kampala (K).
TASKS:

(a) State the difference in time when the two vehicles arrive at their destinations.

(b) Determine when and at what distance from Arua the two vehicles meet.
 (c) Find the average speed of the bus.

46. Your parents are organizing to celebrate your 18th birthday and want it to be a memorable one. They

Tickets to a play cost 9 𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠 for adults and 5 𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠 for children. If the show sold 180
went to Akamwesi mall which has a CINEMAX and it has two tickets.

tickets and earned 1380 dollars,

George your brother has been planning for this birthday for three weeks. He buys the following
items in three weeks. Week one he buys 2 packets of tea , 2 tins of margarine , 3 kg of sugar
and 4 packets of biscuits. Week two he buys 2 tons of margarine, 3 kg of sugar and 4 packets
of biscuits . Week three he buys 2 packet of tea , 2 kg of sugar and 3 packets of biscuits. A
packet of tea costs shs 1,000 , a tin of margarine costs shs 2,500, a kilogramme of sugar
costs shs 3,500 and a packet of biscuits costs shs 2000. Your parents then demarcated the
land they are to use for the party and plan to demarcate it. represented the plot of land he

40x + 60y ≥ 480

inherited using the following inequalities.

30,000x + 45,000y <600,000

x≤12
y≥ 2x
He wants to fence it using poles(x) and barbed wire (y) and the cost function is given by C= 45000x
+ 30,000y
TASK;
(a) how many of each type of tickets were sold?
(b) Find his total expenditure in the three weeks.
(c) find the maximum cost.

47. The length of a rectangular plot of land exceeds the width by 7𝑓𝑡 and its area is 60 𝑠𝑞 𝑓𝑡. Three
business partners Wambusa, Aisha and Wekesa contributed Shs 300,000 , 500,000 and 700,000

respectively to start a business. They decided that of the profit was to be ploughed back to the

business, of the remainder would be kept for emergencies and the rest to be shared in the ratio
of their capital contributions. In that year the profit realized was one and a quarter times that of
capital.
TASK:
(a) Find the dimensions of the rectangle
(b) Determine the amount received by each partner that year.
48. A bucket is in shape of a frustrum with an open end of diameter 30cm and a bottom diameter of
20cm. The bucket which is 42cm deep is used to fill an empty cylindrical tank of diameter 1.8m
and Height 1.2m.

Three hundred and sixty litres of a homogeneous paint is made by mixing three paints A, B and

1800 per litre, paint B costs shs 2400 per litre and paint C shs 1,275 per litre. Taking 𝜋 =3.142
C. The ratio by amount of paint A to point B is 3:2 and that of B to C is 1:2. Paint A costs shs

TASK:
(a) (i) Determine the capacity of the bucket in litres correct to 3dp. (ii) The
capacity of the tank in litres correct to 2 dp. (iii) The
number of bucket that must be drawn to fill the tank.
(b) (i) The amount of each paint in the mixture.
(ii) The amount of money need to make 1 litre of the mixture.
(iii) The percentage profit made by selling the mixture at shs 2,210 per litre.

Each bag occupies an area of 0.8cubic meters. The container is 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸𝐹𝐺𝐻 with 𝐴𝐵 =
49. Mr Kyeswa is buying a container to start a hardware in Kisoba Village to sell bags of cement.

12𝑚, 𝐵𝐶 = 9𝑚, 𝐴𝐷𝐸𝐹 is a square and is the point of intersection of 𝐴𝐶and 𝐵𝐷.

(a) Find the distances;

(i) 𝐵𝐸,
(ii) 𝑂𝐻.
 (b) Determine the angle formed between;
(i) line 𝐵𝐸 and the base,
(ii) plane 𝐵𝐷𝐻 and the base.

50. Mr Pamungu bought a car in January 2017 from his friend at shs. 12,500,000 and the value of the
car depreciates at a rate of 10% per annum.
Recently Mr Pamungu toured Germany but got an emergency back home and left Germany
for Uganda through Switzerland. While in Switzerland he bought a watch worth 54 Deutsche
Marks (Germany currency) for his wife.

Mr Pamungu is a secondary school teacher as a requirement by the government pays PAYE

every month according to the tax structure below.
Income (shs) per month Tax rate(%)
01-50,000 5%
50,001 - 100,000 9.5%
100,001 - 180,000 15%
180,001 - 300,000 18%
300,001 - 400,000 23%
400,001 - 500,000 30%
Above 500,000 35%

Mr Pamungu earns Shs.760,000 and his allowances include

Marriage allowance - shs.50,000 per month
Water and electricity - shs.60,000 per month

Housing allowance - shs 150,000 per month

Medical allowance - shs.300,000 per annum

Transport allowance - shs.3,000 per day

Paying for insurance and relief - shs.180,000 per annum

Family allowance for only three children for children in the age bracket;
• 0 to 10 years shs 12,000 per child,
• Between 10-15 years shs. 9000 per child.
• 15 years and above shs5000.
Given that the employee has five children, two of whom are aged between 0 and 10, the other two aged
between 10 and 15 while the other 18 years. (A month has 30 days)
TASKS;
(a) Calculate the value of Pamungu’s car by January 2020.
b) Given that 1 Swiss Franc = 1.28 Deutsche Marks,1 Swiss Franc = 1,350
Ugandan Shillings; find the value of the watch in; (i)Swiss Francs
(ii)Ugandan Shillings.

(b) Determine the Mr Pamungu’s ’s net-income

(c) Determine the percentage of his gross income that goes to tax.

51. Mr. Ediangu is a government official working with Uganda Police. His gross monthly salary is shs
900,000, which includes the following allowances; water and electricity shs 20,000; relief and
insurance shs 30,000; housing allowance shs. 50,000; medical allowance shs 25,000; transport
allowance shs 28,000; marriage allowance shs 20,000 and family allowance shs 47,000.

The taxation body in Uganda has its income tax structure is shown in the following table:
TAXABLE INCOME PER MONTH IN SHILLINGS TAX RATE (%)
0 - 50,000 10.0
50,0000 - 110,000 20.0
110,000 - 200,000 24.5
200,000 - 350,000 35.0
350,000 - 600,000 40.0
Above 600,000 49.0

TASK:
As a student who has studied Business Mathematics, help Mr Ediangu to determine his net pay in
dollars if the exchange rate is 1dollar = Ugx. 3,840.

52. Arch-Bishop SS is to transport its S. 4 students for fieldwork in Kasenyi. All the 400 students are to
be transported using either coasters or buses. Each coaster can carry 40 people while each bus can
carry 80 people. The transport department of the school has only 8 drivers on duty and up to four
coasters. If the cost of hiring a coaster is shs. 150,000 and that of hiring a bus is shs. 300,000.
While in Kasenyi their geography teacher Mr Kefa visited Mr Sembatya’s shop from which he found
that three shirts and two trousers cost shs. 105,000 at Mr. Sembatya’s shop. Two shirts and five
trousers cost shs. 180,000 at the same shop; Task:

a) (i) Write down the five inequalities representing the above information.
(ii) Represent the inequalities on a graph paper.
(iii) Find the possible number of coasters and buses that can be used and hence determine
the minimum cost.
 b) Find the cost of;
I. each shirt and each trouser.
II. three items of each type at the shop.

53. Kampala (K) and Arua (A) are about 450km apart. At 7:30 a.m, a bus starts from Arua and moves
towards Kampala (K) at a steady speed of 100km/hr while a lorry starts from Kampala (K) an hour
later moving at an average speed of 60km/hr to Arua (A). At 10.00 a.m, the bus is stopped at town
C by police and ordered to reduce speed. After 30 minutes at C, it resumes its journey at a reduced
average speed of 50km/hr until it reaches Kampala (K).
TASKS:
a) State the difference in time when the two vehicles arrive at their destinations.
b) Determine when and at what distance from Arua the two vehicles meet.
c) Find the average speed of the bus.

54. Two carpenters, Tom and Alex, receive an order to build two wooden crates of different sizes. The
specifications require that one crate must have 2 more wooden boards than the other, and
furthermore, the sum of the squares of the number of wooden boards in each crate is 52.

The two carpenters are also working on a rectangular soft board for home designs: the original
rectangular soft board had a perimeter of 36 meters but they had to make some adjustments to the
board to meet their customer’s specifications. They took two meters off its length and added three
meters to its breadth. By so doing, the area increases by 20 square meters.

Tom, one of the carpenters is 1.5m tall and stood on top of a building 34m tall to have a view of
his town after a long day’s work. In a straight line from where he is standing he saw a beggar
seated on the entrance of a barbershop and also saw also a road safety sign which had fallen on the
ground at angles of depressions of 50o and 65o respectively.
TASKS:
a) What is the number of wooden boards required for each crate?
b) What were the original dimensions of rectangular softboard before some adjustments
were made?
c) How far is the beggar seated from were the road safety sign fallen?

55. Your parents are organizing to celebrate your 18th birthday and want ot to be a memorable one. They
went to Akamwesi mall which has a CINEMAX and it has two tickets.
Tickets to a play cost 9 dollars for adults and 5 dollars for children. If the show sold 180 tickets
and earned 1380 dollars,
George your brother has been planning for this birthday for three weeks. He buys the following
items in three weeks.
Week one:
 He buys 2 packets of tea , 2 tins of margarine , 3 kg of sugar and 4 packets of
biscuits.
Week two:
He buys 2 tons of margarine, 3 kg of sugar and 4 packets of biscuits . Week three he
buys 2 packet of tea , 2 kg of sugar and 3 packets of biscuits.

A packet of tea costs shs 1,000 , a tin of margarine costs shs 2,500, a kilogramme of sugar
costs shs 3,500 and a packet of biscuits costs shs 2000.

Your parents then demarcated the land they are to use for the party and plan to demarcate it.

40𝑥 + 60𝑦 ≥ 480

represented the plot of land he inherited using the following inequalities.

30,000𝑥 + 45,000𝑦 < 600,000

𝑥 ≤ 12
𝑦 ≥ 2𝑥
He wants to fence it using poles(x) and barbed wire (y) and the cost function is given by 𝐶 =
45000𝑥 + 30,000y
TASK;
I. how many of each type of tickets were sold?
II. Find his total expenditure in the three weeks.
III. find the maximum cost.

56. Henry is a farmer in Mityana district who practices both farming and rearing of animals on a large
scale. Due to demand of products that come out of animals, henry puts much emphasis on rearing of
birds and cows on his farm. All together there at least 200 heads of birds and cows and There are at
most 240 legs of birds and cows on the farm, the number of birds on the farm are two times than
cows on the farms. Henry wishes to maximizes profits by selling each bird at shs. 50,000 and each
cow at shs.1.5million but doesn’t know the number of birds and cows to sell to fulfil his wish.
TASK:

(a) write mathematical statements that show the relation between the cows and birds.
(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.

57. Due to Poor performance in Mathematics that was observed among learners. The school
administration through academic board came up with strategies to improve on the learner's
performance. Some of the strategies are that a prize is given to learners scoring above 70% and a
 remedial exam be given to learners scoring at most 50%. A Mathematics examination was given to
S.3 learners and marks were obtained as below;

TASKS:
Using a classes with equal class width of 10 marks and starting with a class having the lowest
class mark of 1;
a) Help the administration to find;
i) The number of learners to be awarded prizes.
ii) The number of learners to be give remedial examination. b) What is the
average performance of the class?

58. John moves to his village. From home, he travels 25km on bearing of 250° to trading centre, from
there, he changes course and heads N30°W and moves 55km up to the village. In the village, He
wishes to construct a country home, to fund this project, he is to take a loan from the bank worth 25
million at an interest rate of 5% compounded yearly for a period of 10 years.
He earns agross income of UGX 943,500, and entitled to the following allowances as well.
Housing and transport, 10% of his gross income
Insurance premium of UGX 36500
Marriage and child allowance of UGX 126,500
Medical care of UGX 92,400.
He is also subjected to the following tax rates

Taxable income (UGX) Tax rates (%)

1 - 90,000 6
90,001 - 200,000 14
200,001 - 320,000 20
320,001 - 440,000 30
440,001 - 520,000 42
520,001 and above 47

TASK
(a) (i) If he used the direct route from his home to the village, and for each kilometer he travels,
his car consumes 0.5 liters of petrol, how many liters would his car consume?
(ii) How much would he save in this case?
(b)(i) How much money will he pay back in the bank every month.
 (ii) If the bank is to give him the loan on condition that the money he is to pay back every month
is not more than 50% of his net income, will he get the loan or not? Justify.

59. 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.

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

60. Your uncle owns a small bakery and plans to bake two types of loaves of bread: whole wheat bread
and white bread. Due to the bakery's oven capacity, your uncle can bake atmost 15 loaves of bread in
a day. He wants to bake atleast 3 loaves of whole wheat bread.
Additionally, he wants to bake more whole wheat bread than white bread because it is more popular
among his customers. The selling prices are as follows:
Whole wheat bread is sold at Shs 6500 per loaf.
White bread is sold at Shs 5000 per loaf.
To cover his costs and make a profit, your uncle needs to earn more than Shs 30,000 from the
sales each day.

TASK:
(a) Write mathematical statements that show the relation between the whole wheat bread and
white bread.
(b) Show the feasible region of the relation on the Cartesian plane.
(c) How many loaves of each type should your uncle bake in order to make the maximum profit?
(d) What is the minimum number of loaves he can bake and still make a profit?

61. A manufacturer operates a production facility with 30 worker units (both male and female,
considered equally efficient) and 17 units of capital. Two products, A and B, are produced using
these resources. The production requirements and prices are:

- Product A: 2 worker units, 3 capital units, priced at UGX 100,000 per product.
 - Product B: 3 worker units, 1 capital unit, priced at UGX 120,000 per product.

TASK:
(a) Formulate mathematical constraints representing the relationships between the units of goods
A and B produced.
(b) Graph the feasible region of the constraints on a Cartesian plane.
(c) Determine the optimal production levels to maximize 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?

62. A shipping company needs to transport a large batch of rectangular boxes, each with a length of 8
meters, a width of 6 meters, and a height of 4 meters. To optimize storage space in the cargo hold,
the company plans to cut off a triangular prism-shaped section from each box, with a cross-section
that is an isosceles triangle with base 6 meters and height 4 meters.

Tasks:
(a) Find the storage space needed for each box if they are not to be cut into triangular prisms. . (b)
Sketch the unfolded shape (net) of the cross-section of both the rectangular boxes and the
triangular prism-shaped section cut from the rectangular boxes.
(c) Determine the surface area of a single triangular prism that will be transported.
(d) Calculate the total storage space saved by cutting the rectangular boxes into triangular prism
shaped section boxes if 100 rectangular boxes were transported.

63. A photographer uses image processing software to correct distortions in a photograph. The software
uses matrix transformations to apply corrections. The photographer wants to:

i) Rotate the image by a positive quarter turn about the origin.

ii) Scale the image by 2 times under the enlargement centre O(0,0). iii) Reflect
the image across the y-axis to flip the mirror image.
2 4
The image can be represented by a 2x2 matrix given as ( ) where each column represents a
3 4
pixel coordinate.

TASKS:
(a) Write the matrix representation of each transformation.
(b) Multiply the matrices to find the composite transformation matrix.
(c) Apply the composite transformation matrix to the image matrix to correct the distortions. (d)
Find a single matrix that can undo all the transformations to obtain the original distorted image
before corrections.
64. A landscape architect designs a circular walking path around a fountain. The path has a diameter of
20 meters, and the fountain is 6 meters tall. Two benches, A and B, are placed on the path, forming a
central angle of 60°. A third bench, C, is placed on the path, equidistant from benches A and B.

TASKS:
(a) Find the portion of length of the circular path from bench A to bench B.
(b) Find the inclination between the positions of bench A, B and C.
(c) If a person 1.8 m tall stands at bench C which is 0.3 m tall and looks towards the fountain, find
the angle of elevation to the top of the fountain.

65. A cooperative society of farmers has 50 hectares of land to grow two crops A and B. The profits
from crops A and B per hectare are estimated as Shs 10,500,000 and Shs 9,000,000 respectively. To
contol weeds, a liquid herbicide has to be used for crops A and B at the rate of 20 litres and 10 litres
per hectare, respectively. Further not more than 800 litres of herbicide should be used in order to
protect fish and wildlife using a pond which collects drainage from this land. Keeping in mind that
the protection of fish and other wildlife is more important than earning profit respectively.

TASK:
(a) Write mathematical statements that show the relation between the hectare of land to be allocated
to crop A and B respectively.
(b) Show the feasible region of the relation on the Cartesian plane.
(c) How much land should be allocated to each crop so as to maximize the total profit?
(d) Do you agree with the message that the protection of wildlife is utmost necessary to preserve the
balance in environmnent?

66. A certain company in Kampala is analyzing the optimal departure time for its 40 employees to
ensure they reach home by 6:00 PM, minimizing their commute time and avoiding peak traffic
congestion. The company conducts a survey to track the times employees typically arrive home after
work, measured in minutes past 5:00 PM.

TASK
(a) Based on calculations using the collected data, suggest an optimal departure time for
employees to begin their commute home.
(b) Following advice to allow employees to leave work when at least 50% of them have already
arrived home, determine the optimal departure time.
(c) As the company management, which of the two suggested departure times from (a) and (b)
would you choose to ensure employees reach home by 7:00 PM, and why?
67. A layer chicken farmer decided to weigh a sample of 800 eggs on his farm and classify them
according to their mass (m grams) to optimize the packing process. The frequency distribution of the
egg masses is as follows:

The farmer's plan is to pack eggs in given weights.

TASK:
(a) Determine the median mass of an egg from the given frequency distribution to understand the central
tendency of the egg weights.
(b) What would be the percentage of eggs which would be classified as large(over 62 grams)
(c) The farmer plans to pack eggs that weigh over 62 grams, with each pack containing 12 eggs. If each
pack costs UGX 12,000, calculate the total revenue the farmer will earn from selling all the large
eggs and compare the revenue earned from selling the same eggs to a middle man who he is buying
at UGX 9000. What ad vice will you offer to the farmer.

68. In preparation for the upcoming national voter registration drive in Uganda, the Electoral
Commission needs to determine the optimal opening time for registration centers across various
districts. This decision aims to facilitate maximum voter registration and ensure efficient processing
of the data of the citizens eager to participate in the upcoming elections.
Here are the arrival times of citizens at a sample voter registration center in minutes past the
scheduled opening time (8:00 AM):

TASK
(a) Based on calculations using the collected data, suggest an opening time for voter registration centers.
(b) Following advice to open registration centers when at least 50% of expected citizens have arrived,
determine the opening time.
(c) As the Electoral Commission of Uganda, which of the two suggested opening times from (a) and (b)
would you choose, and why?

69. Your relative, is planning to start a small bakery business and seeks your advice on financial matters
related to her venture. She plans to invest a total of $10,000 into the business and wants to
 understand the financial implications of different financing options. She has approached two money
lenders and she is asking for your input before she takes on the decision.

Lender 1: Your relative, wants to borrow UGX 50,000,000 from a local bank to purchase baking
equipment. The bank offers her two different repayment plans:
Option 1: Simple Interest - The loan is offered at an annual interest rate of 20% and to be paid after 2
years.
Option 2: Compound Interest - The loan is offered at an annual interest rate of 4% and is to be paid
after 2 years.

Lender 2: Your relative is considering a hire purchase agreement with a bakery equipment
supplier. The total cost of the equipment is $5, 000, and the hire purchase agreement specifies
a down payment of $1,000 followed by monthly payments of $400 for 24 months. The supplier
will consider a constant dollar rate at 1$ = UGX3, 800

TASK
(a) Calculate the total repayment amount for each financial option over the loan term and
compare them to determine which option would be more cost-effective for your relative bakery
business. (b) Analyze the monthly cash flow implications for your relative under each financing
option, considering her ability to manage operational expenses alongside loan repayments. (c)
Based on your calculations and analysis in (a) and (b), provide your relative, with a
recommendation on which financial option would be optimal for her bakery business, taking into
account both total repayment amount and monthly cash flow considerations.

70. Your neighbor runs an industry in a shed that is in the shape of a cuboid surmounted by a
halfcylinder (placed on top). The dimensions of the cuboid base are 15 m by 7 m, and the height is 8
m.

TASK:
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 79% discount
on the total cost for every8 Type Y units purchased. The neighbor plans to buy enough 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.
(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 0.08 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.