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Multiplication At The Grocery Store
Many daily applications use multiplication, ranging from the very simple to complex.
Grocery shopping is a great way to look at the simpler concepts of how multiplication is used in everyday activities.
For example, if two oranges for each day of the week were on the shopper’s list, a quick bit of factoring would resolve the question of how many oranges to buy; 7x2=14, fourteen oranges would need to be purchased.
Next, the cost of the fourteen oranges is determined by multiplying the weight times a cost per pound.
The total cost of the oranges is two dollars, as factored by the price per pound times the weight of the oranges; the oranges weigh four pounds and the cost is fifty cents, 4x.50=2 reveals the cost is two dollars.
Moving further through the grocery store a sale item is noticed, advertising twenty percent off the original price for a loaf of bread.
The bread was originally $4.00 and to figure the new cost, a little multiplication comes in handy, 4x20% or 4x.20=.80, resulting in a sale price of $3.20 (4-.80=3.20).
The grocery trip ends for a shopper at the checkout, where multiplication is used to factor how much sales tax is owed for all the items purchased.
If the sales tax is 8% and the total of all the purchases add up to $25.00, then the shopper would need to use multiplication to figure 25x8% or 25x.08 =2, to determine the true total of groceries.
When a grocery store clerk rings in more than one of the same item, multiplication helps execute the task at a quicker pace.
If three bars of soap are purchased at $2.00 each, instead of ringing in each bar of soap separately, the clerk can multiply 2x3 to ring in one total of $6.00.
The grocery store shift schedule is created by the store manager, who uses multiplication to staff according to shopper traffic.
Shoppers flood the grocery store on Sunday afternoons, and the manager needs to have each cash register open and a bagger in every lane.
Multiplication will determine that the schedule should have twenty-four people working on Sunday afternoon to cover the twelve checkout lanes in the store, 2x12=24.
Also on Sunday, the store manager took advantage of the heavy traffic by running a sale on a particular product, and now the manager would like to know the percentage of revenue for the day for the product on sale.
Total revenue for Sunday was $8000, and of that $1500 was collected from the sale product, quick division of 1500/8000 shows .1875, or 18.75%, check this with multiplication 8000x.1875 or 18.75% and the answer is 1500.
The manager can then determine if 18.75% is a targeted goal for the sale and will be able to make an educated decision about whether or not a similar sale should be run again.
Multiplication skills are used for everyday activities in a grocery store, all the way from customer, to cashier, and finally to management.
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