Grade 6 · The Market Year · Week 12

The Market Detective

Eleven weeks of tools, one market, and nobody telling you which tool to use.

This game goes with week 12 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

The Saturday market, four stalls

Stall	Price	Pack	Packs sold	Cost per cup
Ana	$2.00	1 cup	18	$0.80
Ben	$3.60	2 cups	12	$0.80
Cass	$1.50	1 cup	24	$1.60
Dev	$5.00	3 cups	9	$0.90

All four sell drinks. This is everything you can see. Every question below is one of the eleven weeks; say which one you used.

Answer with the right tool

Ben, per cup$ Dev, per cup (to the cent)$

Cheapest per cup?

Ana's margin, in dollars$ Ana's margin, as a percent

Who took the most money? It is not who sold the most packs.

Cass's profit, with its sign$

Ana to Cass, cups sold, simplest form: to

The four revenues: the range$

One stall is losing money and does not obviously look like it. Which?

The workbook: The Market Year (free PDF). The teacher guide: answers and watch-fors.