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Weekly Kitchen Orders: Space and Packaging

Solve kitchen planning problems involving composite areas, prism volumes, and packaging surface areas.

Grade 7MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to7.G.B.6

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 7
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students find areas of triangles, quadrilaterals, and composite polygons in kitchen planning problems.
  • Students calculate volumes of cubes, rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and composite solids.
  • Students calculate surface areas while accounting for open tops and joined faces.

How to use

Use after teaching area and prism formulas. Have students sketch and label solids described in words, then compare their reasoning on the final problem.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

7.G.B.6

Solve real-world problems about area, volume, and surface area of figures made of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and prisms.

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Weekly Kitchen Orders: Space and Packaging

Use area, volume, and surface area to plan a family restaurant’s weekly orders.

Plan the Prep Surfaces

Find each area. Use perpendicular heights, and show your calculations on separate paper.

1.
The family restaurant needs a liner for an L-shaped prep surface. The two shaded rectangles form the entire surface without overlapping. Each grid square represents 1 square foot.

What area of liner is needed?   ft²

2.
A nonslip mat beside the prep sink is a trapezoid. Its parallel sides measure 10 inches and 16 inches. The perpendicular distance between those sides is 7 inches.

What is the area of the mat?   in²

3.
For a weekly lunch order, Noor cuts triangular paper liners. Each triangle has a base of 18 cm and a perpendicular height of 12 cm. What is the area of one liner?
  • A. The area is 30 cm².
  • B. The area is 54 cm².
  • C. The area is 108 cm².
  • D. The area is 216 cm².

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