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This sheet mixes proportions, percent increase and decrease, sale prices, simple interest, adding and subtracting integers, and two-step equations. Each problem is built from a checked math template, so the numbers change every time but the answers are always right; only the story is about baking.
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Baking Math
7th Grade · Proportions · Percent increase and decrease · Sale prices · Simple interest · Adding and subtracting integers · Two-step equations
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Sam bakes chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cupcakes in a ratio of 9:3 for the bake sale. How many chocolate cupcakes go with 19 vanilla cupcakes?
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Last month, Sam had 200 cupcake liners. Now Sam has 240. What is the percent increase?
A. 20%
B. 16.67%
C. 40%
D. 10%
At the kitchen store, a hand mixer usually costs $60. This week it is 50% off. How much will Sam pay for it?
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Sam's baking club raised $500 at a bake sale and put it in a savings account that pays 3% simple interest per year. How much interest will it earn in 1 year?
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Sam checked the temperature outside the bakery. It was 10°C at sunrise. By noon, it had risen 6 degrees. What was the temperature at noon, in °C?
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Sam has 59 cookies in all: 10 loose cookies plus 7 boxes with the same number of cookies in each box. If x is the number of cookies in each box, solve 7x+10=59.
A.x=7
B.x=9.86
C.x=8.43
D.x=49
Sam bakes chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cupcakes in a ratio of 6:4 for the bake sale. How many chocolate cupcakes go with 34 vanilla cupcakes?
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Last year, 80 people came to the bake sale. This year, Sam counted 120. What is the percent increase?
A. 50%
B. 33.33%
C. 40%
D. 25%
At the kitchen store, a stand mixer usually costs $100. This week it is 20% off. How much will Sam pay for it?
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Sam's baking club raised $400 at a bake sale and put it in a savings account that pays 8% simple interest per year. How much interest will it earn in 1 year?
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Answer key
Baking Math · 7th Grade
57Cross-multiply:9×19=171,thendivideby3:x=57.
A. 20%Percentchange=(change÷original)×100=(40÷200)×100=20%.
30.0050%of60is30,sothesalepriceis60−30=$30.00.
15.00500×0.03×1=$15.00.
1610+6=16.
A. x=7Undothe+10first(subtractfrombothsides),thenundothe×7(dividebothsides):x=7.
51Cross-multiply:6×34=204,thendivideby4:x=51.
A. 50%Percentchange=(change÷original)×100=(40÷80)×100=50%.
80.0020%of100is20,sothesalepriceis100−20=$80.00.
32.00400×0.08×1=$32.00.
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