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SUBSIDIARY MATHEMATICS
AUG - 2019
2 hours 40 min

JINJA JOINT EXAMINATIONS BOARD

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education

MOCK EXAMINATIONS – AUG, 2019

SUBSIDIARY MATHEMATICS

Paper 1

2 hours 40 min

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Answer all the eight questions in section A and four questions from section B.
All necessary working must be shown clearly

Silent non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables with a list of

formulae may be used.
In numerical work, take acceleration due to gravity g to be 9.8 ms – 2.

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SECTION A.

1. Given that , express in the form and hence state the values of a
and b. (05 marks)

2. Given that the first term of an arithmetic progression (A.P) is 5 and the sum of the first 6
terms of an A.P differ from the 8th term of an A.P by 4. Find the value of common
difference. (05 marks)

3. Mr. Waduda Demiano a teacher at Kyomya west S.S.S Budondo is to select 5 students to
form a discussion group from 7 boys and 8 girls. In how many ways can the group be
chosen if there must be at least four boys in the group. (05 marks)

4. A discrete random variable x has probability function

0 else where
Find the;
i) value of k
ii) expectation of X (05 marks)

5. Find the angle between vectors and (05 marks)

6. Show that

(05 marks)

7. The table below shows the three point moving totals for the number of tourists who visited Lake Mburo National
Park over a period of four years.
Year Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
2015 1530 1310
2016 1300 1290 1205
2017 1194 1110 1096
2018 1052 1014
Calculate the 3-point moving averages for the above data. (05 marks)

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8. Two particles A and B of masses 3kg and 5kg are connected by a fine string passing
over a smooth fixed pulley. Find
i) their common acceleration.
ii) the tension in the string (05 marks)

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SECTION B: (60 MARKS)

9. a) The gradient function of a curve at a point is 2x-6. If point B(0,13) lies on
the curve.
i) Find the equation of the curve
ii) Determine the coordinates and nature of its turning point
iii) Sketch the curve (15 marks)

10. The table below shows the marks obtained by 76 candidates in a subsidiary mathematics examination.
Marks 50- 55- 60- 65- 70- 75- 80-85
Number of
3 7 15 22 19 8 2
candidates
a) Calculate the
i) mean mark
ii) median mark (07 marks)

b) Draw a cumulative frequency curve and use it to estimate the;

i) interquartile range
ii) number of students who scored 72% and above in the examination. (08 marks)
11. The cost of making toasted bread is calculated from the cost of banking flour, sugar, milk, eggs and food
colour.
Item 2017 2018 Weight
Wheat flour per kg 5100 5700 10
Sugar per kg 4000 3600 5
Milk per litre 1000 1400 4
Eggs per tray 9000 8500 2
food colour per packet 1000 1300 1

Using 2017 as the base year

a) Calculate;
i) the price relatives for each item (05 marks)
ii) simple aggregate price index (03 marks)
iii) the weighted aggregate price index and comment on your result. (04 marks)
b) If the cost of making a toasted bread in 2018 was shs 2,200. Estimate the cost in
2017 of making toasted bread. (03 marks)

12. a) The probability that a driver will cause an accident on a journey is 0.3. If he makes
12 such journeys what is the probability that:-
i) exactly 10 of the journeys have accidents
ii) four to five inclusive journeys have accidents. (07 marks)
c) The marks obtained by UCE candidates were found to be normally distributed
with mean 50% and standard deviation 10%.

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i) Determine the percentage of candidates who obtained more than 70%

marks
ii) What is the percentage of the candidates who obtained between 40% and
60% marks? (08 marks)

13. A cake is made up of the ingredients; flour, oil, eggs and sugar. A sample of three
cakes made by a certain bakery was found to have been made from:

Cake A; 2kg of flour, 1 litre of oil, 8 eggs and 250g of sugar.

Cake B; 3kg of flour, 2 litres of oil, 12 eggs and 500g of sugar.

Cake C; 5kg of flour, 2.5 litres of oil,20 eggs and 750g of sugar.

In 2017, the cost of a kg of flour, a litre of oil, an egg and a kg of sugar were shs 2,200,
shs 2,500, shs 400 and shs 3,200 respectively.

In 2018, the cost of a kg of flour, a litre of oil, an egg and a kg of sugar were shs 3,000,
shs 3,000 , shs 500 and shs 3,600 respectively

i) Write down a 3 x 4 matrix to represent the ingredient items of the cakes and
4 × 1 matrices for the costs of the items in the two years.
ii) Using matrix multiplication, calculate the total cost of making the three cakes for
each of the years 2017 and 2018

iii) What is the difference between the costs in the two years (15 marks)

14 . A particle of mass 3kg slides from rest down a rough plane inclined at 30o to the
horizontal. The coefficient of friction between the particle and the plane is 0.3.
Find the;
i) normal reaction of the plane
ii) frictional force exerted on the body
iii) acceleration of the particle
iv) how far it travels in 4 seconds (15 marks)

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