SECTION A(40 MARKS)
1. Multiply: 3 x 3 x 3.
2. Simplify: -6 - +6
3. Write 94 in Roman numerals.
4. If today is a Tuesday, the non-teaching staff is paid their salary, what day of the week
will their next pay be, 30 days from today?
5. St. Peter Primary School has a total of 300 pupils. If there are 180 boys in the school,
what is the ratio of girls to boys?
6. Mercy banked sh.100,000 in Bank of Africa at a simple interest rate of 12% per annum.
What interest did she earn after 8 months?
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7. Solve: 3p2 = 48
8. Two bells ring at intervals of 30 minutes and 40 minutes respectively. If they start
ringing together at 8:00a.m, after how many minutes will they ring together again?
9. Drop a perpendicular line from point P to line XY below.
• P
X Y
10. Find the next number in the sequence below: 27 , 9, 3, 1, …….
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11. Find the size of angle P in the diagram below:
1000
1400
xy
12. If x = 2, y = 1 and z = 0.5, Calculate
z
13. If set A = { 0, 2, 4, 6, 8} and set B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 9} Find A – B
14. Given the numeral 38.47, find the product of the place value of 3 and 4.
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15. A girl read of a book on Monday and of it on Tuesday and she remained with 20
3 5
pages to read. How many pages has the book?
2 1
16. Divide: by .
5 2
17. At an average speed of 60km/hr, a car covered a distance of 270km. Calculate the
time it took to cover that distance.
18. A pair of shoes priced at sh.50,000 was sold to a customer at a discount of 20%. How
much money did the customer pay for the shoes?
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19. Calculate the volume of the figure below.
3cm
4cm
10cm
20. Express 12.30a.m in a 24 hour clock.
SECTION B (60 MARKS)
21. In a class of 60 pupils, 25 like English (E) , X like Mathematics(M) only, 20 like both
English and Mathematics. 5 pupils do not like any of those two subjects.
(a) Complete the Venn diagram below using the information given above. (2 marks)
=60
E M
(b) Find the value of x. ( 3 marks)
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(c) What is the probability of picking at random one of the pupils who like only one
subject? (1 mark)
22. (a) Solve: 5t – 2(t + 1= 1 (3 marks)
(b) Solve the inequality: -2p + 4 > 6 ( 3marks)
23. Wambwa scored the following marks in a number of Mathematics tests:
75, 80, 60, 70, 45, 50 Find the:
(a) Range in the marks. (1 mark)
(b) Modal frequency (1 mark)
(c) Mean mark (3 marks)
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24. Using a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil only;
(a) Construct a triangle ABC in which BC = 8cm, angle ABC = 900 and angle BCA = 300.
(4 marks)
(b) What is the area of triangle ABC? (3 marks)
25. Rubongi drove from Kampala to his village at an average speed of 90km/hr for
1
3 hrs.
3
(a) How far is Rubongi’s village from Kampala? (2 marks)
(b) Calculate his average speed for both journeys. (3 marks)
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26. A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 450.
(a) Find the number of sides of the polygon. (2 marks)
(b) Calculate the sum of its interior angles. (2 marks)
27. (a) Express 0.3636….as a common fraction. (2marks)
(b) Express 500m as a percentage of 4km (2 marks)
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28. The width of the rectangle ABCD below is 3cm. Its perimeter is 14cm. Use it to answer
the questions that follow.
A D
3 cm
B C
(a) What is its length? (2marks)
(b) Calculate the diagonal BD. (2 marks)
29. Given two numbers 24 and 30, find their;
(a) Lowest Common Multiple(L.C.M) (2 marks)
(b) Greatest Common Factor (G.C.F) (2 marks)
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30. A businessman has 200 bags of maize flour each weighing 50kg.
(a) Find the total weight of the bags in tones. (2 marks)
(b) If a pick up carries 2 tones per trip, work out the number of bags the pick-up will
carry in one trip. (2 marks)
31. Work out the area of the shaded part of the given figure. (4 marks)
14cm
14cm
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32. A piece of land is used as follows:
5 hectares for growing maize.
10 hectares for keeping animals.
20 hectares for growing matooke.
25 hectares for growing sugar cane.
Represent the above information a pie chart (Use radius of 4cm) (7 marks)
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