NAME: SIGNATURE:
AITEL EXAMINATION
S.3 MATHEMATICS
END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT
DURATION: 2 Hours 30 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS: For examiner’s use only
This paper consists of two Page Score
sections A and B
Page 1
All questions are compulsory
Page 2
Show all the necessary working
Page 3
in the spaces provided
For numerical work, silent non- Page 4
programmable scientific
calculators may be used. Page 5
Be neat
Page 6
Do not write anything in boxes
labelled “for examiner’s use Page 7
only”
Total score
SECTION A
1. (a) Study matrix P below.
0 4
= 1 −6
2 3
(i) Of what order is matrix P? (02 marks)
(ii) Rewrite the rows of P as columns and the columns as rows, Of what
order is the new matrix? (02 marks)
(b) Kataza is a senior three learner at Standard High School-Kapeeka. She sells
fruits at the local market to raise money for her scholastic materials and other
personal requirements. She majorly deals in apples, mangoes and pawpaws. She
sells each fruit at UGX 1,000, UGX 500 and UGX 3,000 respectively. In a particular
week, she recorded her daily sales as shown in the table below.
ITEMS Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Apples 13 9 7 15
Mangoes 8 7 4 6
Pawpaws 6 4 0 3
(a) Write down a 4x3 matrix for the number of fruits sold in that week(02 marks)
(b) Write down an appropriate matrix for the selling price of the items (02 marks)
(c) Find the total sales for the four days. (08 marks)
2. Study the newspaper advertisement below.
NEW! NEW! NEW!
BRAND NEW PRINTER FOR SALE
HIRE PURCHASE: Deposit 2,000,000 and
18 monthly installments of UGX 700,000 each
CASH PURCHASE: UGX 15million with 5%
Cash discount.
Buy quality and get value for money
Calculate the percentage saving one would make by paying cash rather than
monthly hire purchase (16 marks)
3. (a) Owori earned UGX 5,000,000 and he wanted to invest the money in a
savings account. There are three banks; Centenary, Stanbic and DFCU.
Centenary offers a 1% compound interest paid monthly, Stanbic offers a 12%
compound interest paid annually and DFCU offers a 3% compound interest
paid every 3 months. Which bank should he invest in? (10 marks)
(b) The Headset below costs 190 British pound sterlings. Determine the cost of the
player in UGX given that 1£=$1.03 and 1$=UGX 3,665. (06 marks)
4. Mrs Ssekulima earns a gross annual income of UGX 37,000,000. The first UGX
800,000 taxable income is taxed at 10%, the next UGX 900,000 at 20% and
the balance at 30%. She is entitled to a non-taxable monthly allowance of UGX
185,000. Calculate her
(a) Monthly taxable income (0 4 marks)
(b) Income tax (1 2 marks)
5. (a) Mr Mukasa records at his farm show that 18 heads of cattle eat 9 sacks of
dried grass, how many heads of cattle will eat 33 sacks of dried grass in order to
take the same duration of time as the 18 heads? (0 4 marks)
(b)An ice cream shop keeps records of how much ice cream they sell versus the
average temperature of that day. The table below shows the figures for 9 days.
Temperature ( ° ) Ice cream sales (in thousands)
14 215
15 325
12 185
16 332
19 406
22 522
19 412
25 613
23 544
(a) Plot the data to obtain a scatter graph. Draw the line of best fit (0 9 marks)
(b) Determine the ice cream sales when the temperature is 18 (0 1 mark)
(c) What is the relationship between ice cream sales and average temperatures
of the days? (0 2 marks)
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