UNEB PLE Mathematics Past Papers for Year 2004
Uganda National Examinations Board Past Questions for Year 2004
SECTION A
1. Work out: 
2. Write 9,109 in words.
3. Work out: 
4. Two angles are supplementary. If one of them is 280, find the other angle.
5. Write XCIV in Hindu – Arabic numerals.
6. Simplify: –7-–8
7. What is the place value of 3 in the number 41.32?
8. There are 30 eggs in one tray. How many trays will be required to pack 330 eggs?
9. Express 0.05 as a simplified fraction.
10. Using a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil only, construct an angle of 300 in the space provided below.
11. Work out: 
12. In the Venn diagram below, shade the complement of P ᴜ Q.
13. Find the next number in the following number pattern:
1, 3, 6, 11, 18, ………………….
14. Find the area of the shaded top cover of the rectangular box below.
RECTANGULAR
15. The diagram below is divided into equal parts.
TABLES
What fraction of the diagram is shaded?
16. Mugisha bought a bull at shs200, 000 and sold it at shs180, 000. What was his percentage loss?
17. Peter was given a bundle of one thousand shillings notes numbered from OR447500 to OR447699 consecutively. How much money did peter get?
18. Akello kept the following daily record of the number of the people who visited their home in a week: 3, 5, 3, 2, 0, 3, 5.
Find the mean.
19. The area of a square flower garden is 
m2. Find the length of one side of the garden.
20. When 1/9 of the pupils in a class are absent, 32 pupils are present. Find the total number of pupils in the class.
21. A die is rolled once. What is the probability that a prime number will show on top?
22. Jane slept from 9.10 pm to 5.15am. For how long did she sleep?
23. Solve the equation: 
24. Find the value of 
when a = 3 and m = 6.
25. Find the value of x in the figure below.
ANGLES
26. Mary deposited shs200, 000 in a bank at a simple interest rate of 5% per annum. How much interest did she earn after 9 months?
27. Assimwe is facing North East. If she turns anti-clockwise to face west, through what angle does she turn?
28. There are two sets A and B. set A= (1, 3, 4, 6, 8), AᴜB = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) A∩B = (3, 6), find n (B).
29. A string is 3m long. How many places of string, each measuring 20cm long can be cut from that string?
30. One of the interior angles of a regular polygon is 1200. How much side does the polygon have?
SECTION B
31. In a class of 40 pupils, 25 like English (E), 15 like science (s), y pupils like both English and science and 8 do not like any of the two subjects.
Use this information to answer questions (a) and (b).
a) Complete the Venn diagram.
VENN DIAGRAM
b) Find the value of y.
32. A P.7 pupil was sent to the market with shs20, 000 to buy the items shown the table below. Use the table to answer the questions that follow.
| ITEM | PRICE | TOTAL COST |
| 3kg. of beans | sh………. per kg. | shs2,100 |
| 3kg. of sugar | sh1,400 per kg. | sh………… |
| 4kg. of meat | sh………. per kg. | sh10,000 |
| ……… loaves of bread | sh1,600 per loaf. | sh3,200 |
| Total Expenditure | sh18,500 |
a) Complete the table above.
b) What balance did the pupil get after buying the items if a discount of 10% was given?
33. Joy drove from town A to town B, a distance of 120 kilometers in 2 hours. If it took her hours to drive from town B to the next town C at the same speed, how far is town C from town A?
34. a) Okello’s wage was increased by 10% to shs77, 000 per month. Find his old salary.
b) If his new wage of shs77, 000 was decreased by 5%, find his final wage.
35. a) Using a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil only, construct a triangle ABC such that BC = 8cm, angle ABC = 1200 and AB = 6cm.
b) Measure length AC.
c) Measure angle BCA.
36. Given that y = 3x – 5, complete the table below.
| x | 4 | …….. | 1/3 | ……. | 3 |
| y | …….. | -2 | ……. | -8 | …….. |
37. Abdul cut out circular plates of diameter 7cm from a rectangular sheet of metal of length 45cm and width 35cm shown below.
BOX
a) How many circular plates did he cut out from the rectangular sheet?
b) Find the area of the unused sheet after cutting out the circular plates. 
38. a) solve the inequality: 
b) solve for P: 3 – (p – 1)=2(p+5)
39. in corona primary school, 1/3 of the pupils in P.7 like Matoke. 2/5 of the remainder like rice. The rest of pupils like posho. If those who like posho are 42, find the total number of pupils in P.7.
40. a) In the diagram below, XTS is parallel to PQR.
Use it to answer the question that follows.
ANGLE
Find the size of angle Z.
b) In the triangle below AB = 12cm, CE = 10cm and AC = 16cm.
Use the triangle to answer the question that follows.
TRIANGLE
Find the length of BD in cm.
41. study the graph below and answer the questions that follow:
GRAPH
a) plot the points:
(i) A (-4, 3)
(ii) B(0,3)
(iii) C(2, -3)
(iv) D( -4, -1)
b) Join the points A to B, B to C, C to D, D to A.
c) Name the quadrilateral formed ………………………………
d) Find the area of the quadrilateral in (c) above.
42. A cuboidal water tank (A) which is 70 cm long by 35cm wide by 110cm high, was filled with water. The water from tank (A) was all poured into the cylindrical tank (B) of diameter 70cm.
CYLINDER & CUBOID
a) Find the volume of water in tank A when it is full.
b) Find the new height of water after it has been poured into tank B.
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