UNIT 13 Money and Time Activities Activities 13.1 Menu Choices 13.2 Money Maze 13.3 Shortest Journeys Notes and Solutions (1 page)
ACTIVITY 13.1 Menu Choices You have 5 to spend and can choose items from this selection on the MEP menu: MEP MENU 1. Choose a meal that costs exactly 5 and includes one drink. 2. Choose a meal that costs exactly 5 but does not include a drink. 3. Choose a meal that costs as close as possible to, but not more than, 3. 4. What meals, without a drink but including chips, could you buy for 1.80 or less, if you buy as many different items as possible? Drinks Fruit Juice Can of Drink Milk Shake Food Chips Sausages (2) Burger Baked Potato Tuna Beans Cheese Peas Onion Rings Chicken Pie Salad Tomato Sauce Cost 55p 1.20 72p 99p 2.10 1.50 45p 48p 75p 1.40 1.05 20p With (a) 5, (b) 3, decide what to buy for a meal in your local McDonald's, Burger King or other fast-food outlet: how much change would you have?
Colour in YELLOW all the wage rates that are equivalent to the one at START. Colour in RED all those rates that are less than the one at START, and colour in GREEN all those that are more. START 9.00 for 2 hours 5.00 per hour 1.25 for 15 minutes 25p for 3 minutes 4.50 45 for 40 hours 180 for 30 hours Find the route from START to FINISH that uses the same rates throughout. Design your own maze with different figures in it. 36 for 8 hours 2.25 for 22.50 for 6 hours 19 for 72 for 16 hours 2.50 for 4 45p for 6 minutes 13.50 for FINISH ACTIVITY 13.2 Money Maze
ACTIVITY 13.3 Shortest Journeys Birmingham - Tamworth - Burton - Derby Mondays to Fridays Service operated by CT ML VT CT ML CT VT CT CT VT CT CT VT CT VT CT CT CT VT CT CT CT VT CT CT Birmingham New Street Water Orton Wilnecote Tamworth Burton-on-Trent Willington Derby 0602 0613 0622 0626 0637 0652 0700 0706 0713 0657 0714 0726 0740 0703 0716 0724 0728 0741 0747 0759 0751 0757 0805 0726 0744 0757 0812 0736 0753 0805 0820 0806 0824 0835 0850 0828 0838 0846 0850 0903 0909 0920 0845 0923 0906 0924 0935 0950 0935 0951 0955 1006 1012 1024 1000 1038 1017 1045 1048 1119 1129 1145 1202 1217 1230 1245 1315 1333 1027 1210 1145 1349 1037 1107 1137 1149 1235 1248 1333 1353 1050 1120 1148 1202 1248 1259 1344 1404 1208 1410 1105 1123 1135 1203 1220 1223 1303 1314 1323 1359 1420 Use the timetable to complete the following table to show the shortest journey times between each place. BIRMINGHAM WATER ORTON WILNECOTE TAMWORTH BURTON-ON-TRENT WILLINGTON DERBY Choose a local train timetable and complete a similar diagram to show the shortest journey times by rail.
ACTIVITIES 13.1-13.3 Notes for Solutions Notes and solutions given only where appropriate. 13.1 1. Milk shake, chips, peas, chicken pie, beans and onion rings. 2. Chips, burger, beans, peas, salad and tomato sauce. 3. (a) Milk shake, sausages and cheese or tuna: 2.99 (b) Chicken pie, tuna and cheese: 3.00 4. Chips and sausages. Chips, tuna and tomato sauce. Chips, cheese and tomato sauce. Chips, beans and tomato sauce. Chips, beans and peas. Chips, onion rings and tomato sauce. Chips and salad. 13.2 START 9.00 for 2 hours 4.50 36 for 8 hours 19 for 2.50 for 5.00 per hour 45 for 72 for 16 hours 4 1.25 for 15 minutes 40 hours 2.25 for 45p for 6 minutes 25p for 3 minutes 180 for 30 hours 22.50 for 6 hours 13.50 for = 4.50 hr (YELLOW) FINISH 13.3 8 16 38 BIRMINGHAM 8 38 WATER ORTON 17 10 4 WILNECOTE 29 23 15 11 TAMWORTH 37 31 21 17 6 30 26 13 7 BURTON-ON-TRENT WILLINGTON DERBY < 4.50 hr (RED) > 4.50 hr (GREEN)