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School Event Bakery: Scale and Check

Solve multistep bakery planning problems with signed numbers, fractions, and decimals, then check costs and quantities by estimating.

Grade 7MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to7.EE.B.3

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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 7
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students solve multistep recipe and budget problems using positive and negative rational numbers.
Students use estimates to check exact answers and make school-event planning decisions.

How to use

Use for independent practice after operations with rational numbers. Ask students to show their calculations and compare estimates with exact results.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

7.EE.B.3

Solve multistep real-life problems with positive and negative numbers as whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, and check by estimating.

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School Event Bakery: Scale and Check

Scale recipes, track signed balances, and use estimates to check your results.

Scale the Recipes

Solve each independent bakery planning problem. Show your calculations on separate paper.

For the school event, a bakery plans to make 5 batches of muffins. Each batch needs 2.25 cups of flour. There are 9 cups of flour ready to use.

How many additional cups of flour are needed? cups

A cookie recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar per batch. Priya is making 3 1/2 batches and has already measured 1 1/2 cups of sugar.

How much more sugar must she measure? Write a fraction or mixed number. cups

The bakery needs 96 rolls for students and 12 more for event staff. One batch makes 18 rolls and uses 5/8 pound of butter. How much butter is needed for all the rolls?