S5 MTC 2 Eotii 2024 - 044959

P425/2
APPLIED
MATHEMATICS
Paper 2
July, 2024
3 HOURS
KAGADI PEOPLES’ SECONDARY SCHOOL

S5 END OF TERM 1I EXAMINATIONS 2024
UGANDA ADVANCED CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Paper 2
3 hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
➢ Answer all questions in section A and section B.
➢ Any additional question (s) answered will not be marked
➢ All necessary working must be shown clearly
➢ Begin each answer on a fresh sheet of paper
➢ Silent non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables with a list of
formulae may be used.
➢ In numerical work, take g to be 9.8 ms-2.
1
SECTION A
1. The following table gives the test results for 10 children.
Child A B C D E F G H I J
Maths (x) 1 8 15 18 23 28 33 39 45 45
English (y) 3 14 8 20 19 17 36 26 14 29
(a) Draw a scatter diagram for the above data. Hence comment on the relationship between
the Maths and English marks. (5marks)
(b) Draw a line of best fit on the scatter diagram and use it to estimate the Math mark of a
student who scored 30 marks in English. (1mark)
(c) Calculate the rank correlation coefficient for the above data. Hence comment on your
result at 5% level of significance. (6marks)
2. The table below shows the expenditure of restaurant for the years 2014 and 2016.
Item Price (shs) Weight
2014 2016
Milk (per litre) 1000 1300 0.5
Eggs (per tray) 6500 8300 1
Sugar (per kg) 3000 3800 2
Blue band 7000 9000 1
Taking 2014 as the base year, calculate for 2016 the:
(a) Price relative for each item. (4marks)
(b) Simple aggregate price index. (2marks)
(c) Weighted aggregate price index and comment on your result. (3marks)
(d) In 2016, the restaurant spent shs. 45,000 on buying these items. Using the index
obtained in (c), find how much money the restaurant could have spent in 2014.
(3marks)
3. The numbers 𝑨 and 𝑩 are rounded off to a and b with errors 𝒆𝟏 and 𝒆𝟐 respectively.
(a) Show that the absolute relative error in the product AB is given by:
|𝒂||𝒆𝟐 |+|𝒃||𝒆𝟏 |
(4marks)
𝒂𝒃
(b) Given that 𝑨 = 6.43 and 𝑩 = 37.2 are rounded off to the given number of decimal
places indicated;
(i) State the maximum possible errors in A and B. (2marks)
(ii) Determine the absolute error in AB. (2marks)
(iii) Find the limits within which the product AB lies. Give your answer to 4 decimal
places. (4marks)
2
SECTION B
4. The table below shows marks obtained by 120 students in a test:
Marks 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49
No. of 5 15 35 10 25 8 7 5
students
(a) Calculate:
(i) the mean.
(ii) standard deviation of the marks. (6marks)
(b) Plot an ogive for this data and use it to estimate:
(i) the median
(ii) the number of students with marks that are within one standard deviation of
the mean. (6marks)
(c) Calculate the:
(i) 10th decile
(ii) 70th percentile (4 marks)
3
5. Given the equation 3𝑥 + 𝑥 − 5 = 0;
(a) (i) Show that the equation has a root between 1 and 1.5 (3marks)
(ii) Hence use linear interpolation to obtain an approximation of the root. (3marks)
(b) Use Newton Raphson’s formula to find the root of the equation correct to two
decimal places. (6marks)
(c) Draw a flow chart for the above process of obtaining an equation in (b) above.
(4marks)
6. If 𝒂 = 𝟐𝒊 + 𝟓𝒋, 𝒃 = −𝟕𝒊 + 𝟕𝒋 and 𝒄 = 𝟏𝟒𝒊, find:
(a) The resultant of a and b (1mark)
(b) The resultant of a, b and c. (1mark)
(c) |𝒂| (1 mark)
(d) |𝒃| (1mark)
(e) |𝒄| (1mark)
(f) |𝒂 + 𝒃 + 𝒄| (1mark)
(g) A vector that is parallel to a and has a magnitude of 5√29 units (3marks)
(h) A vector that is parallel to (𝒂 + 𝒃 + 𝒄) and has a magnitude of 90 units. (3marks)
(i) A man walks 6km south-west and then 4km due west. How far, and in what direction,
is he then from his starting point. (4marks)
3 2
7. (a) Show graphically that the equation 𝑥 + 5𝑥 − 3𝑥 − 4 = 0 has roots between 0 and -1 (4mks)
𝜋
2
(b) Use the trapezium rule with five ordinates to evaluate ∫04
√1−𝑥 2
𝑑𝑥 to 3 decimal places.
(5marks)
(c) If the actual value is 1.807, find the percentage error in your estimation. (3marks)
(d) State how the above error can be reduced. (1mark)
𝑥𝑦 2
(e) Find the maximum value in the expression 𝑥+𝑦 if 𝑥 = 2.45 and 𝑦 = 3.47 (3marks)
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