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PURE MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
AUGUST 2025
21 hour
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HOPELAND HIGH SCHOOL NAJJA BUIKWE
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education
End of term 2 Assessment 2025
Pure Mathematics Competency Based Assessment
Form five
2 hour 15minutes
INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer all Items in this paper
Begin each question on a fresh sheet of paper
Silent, non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables with a list of
formulae may be used.
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ITEM 1
A treasure map uses a coordinate grid to help adventures locate hidden treasures in Mubende District.
The grid is labelled with coordinates (x,y), where each point represents a specific location. Two
equations are used for safety of the treasures but the travellers have no knowledge of how to identify
the coordinates. The equations are;
5𝑥+2+ 7𝑦 +1= 3468 and 7𝑦 = 5𝑥 - 76
Task
Help them identify the location (score: 05)
ITEM 2
A health food company is creating a new herbal drink that requires an exact measurement of a rare
[(√ ) (√ ) ]
extract. The amount of extract needed for one bottle is - milliliters. To ensure
√
precision in production, the machine can only handle rational numbers. The company wants to produce
50 bottles each at shs. 8700.
Task
Help the company to find the total amount of extract needed. Hence, the amount of money they will get
after selling all the bottles (score: 05)
ITEM 3
A cinema sells snacks in Combo deals;
Combo A includes 1 tin of popcorn, 1 drink and 1 chocolate bar all at a total cost of UGX.26,250.
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Combo B includes 2tins of popcorn, 1 drink and 2 chocolate bars all at a total cost of UGX.43,750.
Combo C includes 1tin of popcorn and 2 drinks all at a total cost of UGX.28,000. Your friend wants to
buy 3tins of popcorn, 2 drinks and 1 chocolate bar for both of you but not sure of how much to pay for
all of them.
Task
Use your knowledge of mathematics to save your friend from being cheated. (score: 05)
ITEM 4
During your first term holiday in senior five you decide to visit your uncle in the village having taken
long not seeing him. He wishes to plant trees around his plot of land whose length is 2 metres
longer than its width. The total area of the plot is 35 square metres according to the land tittle .He plans
to use a spacing of 1m from each tree that but doesn’t know how much money he will spend on buying
the trees .
Hint; Each tree costs UGx 2,500
Task
Help your uncle to determine the total amount of money needed to be spent on buying trees. (score:
05)
ITEM 5
Your class teacher loses her phone after being stolen by thugs while coming to school. She decides to
go police so that the phone can be tracked using GPS coordinates. The phone’s location at different
times is recorded and the police are trying to find its movement pattern. The tracking device uses a
logical operation given simultaneously as;
log2 𝑥 + 2log4 𝑦 = 4 and 𝑥𝑦 when they got so close to the phone but couldn’t tell the
coordinates to locate the phone with ease. The coordinates are in metres and one point gives the
position of those with the tracking device, the other point gives the position of the phone.
Task
(a) Help them find the coordinates.
What is the distance between the two points? (score: 05)
ITEM 6
Mr Otim plans to put pavers in the diagonal path of his rectangular flower garden that measures (5+√5)
m by √5m. He consults an engineer who tells him that the whole path requires 1,000 pavers which
makes Otim doubtful thinking that the engineer wants to cheat him. Mr Otim contacts
you to come and help him clear his doubt by at least finding the number of pavers per metre.
Task
Help Mr. Otim to clear his doubt even though he asks you to only use a calculator at the last step of the
solution since he targets to avoid errors as much as possible and wants the number of pavers rounded to
the nearest whole number. (score: 05)
ITEM 7
Joseph is a structural engineer working with Hopeland Construction Company. He has been tasked to
design a surveillance tower for the watchman. He has designed the project as follow;
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AO = 4m, angle VOA = angle VOB = 90 Joseph is not sure of the height of the tower (VO) and
therefore he has decided to consider it as h. in order to be accurate, he expects to increase the size of the
angle at the A which is 45 by a certain angle which he is yet to obtain.
Figure 1 Cross section of the tower
C D
(4 𝜃)
𝛼
A 4m O B
The project manager would like to know the height of the tower in order to know how much he will
spend to by the pipe that will be used.
Task
a) i. Help the manager to express the height of the tower in terms of .
ii. The manager would like the height of the tower to be 15meters. Use the answer you have obtained
in a) above to obtain the size of the angle that will be added to 45 in order to accomplish the project.
Hence, obtain the final angle at A
b) Joseph would like to know the length of the material CD that will be used during construction. As an
engineer, he knows it very well that he can obtain this length from the expression,
whereby is the angle at B.
As a mathematics student, how that the above expression can be simplified to
ITEM 8
In a squid game movie, players are required to rotate and face in the angles they think they satisfy the
given condition. Below are the 2 conditions of which the winner must have turned and face the
correct angles
Condition 1 (for )
Condition 2 ( for 𝑥 )
Assuming you are one of the players, by showing all the relevant procedures, obtain the possible
angles you will face for each condition in order to win the game.
******************Practice makes one perfect in math**********************
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