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Unit Pricing - Jigsaw Joke

Calculate the unit cost of items to help determine which offers make the best buy.

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Type in your answer in pounds (so 30p should be typed in as 0.30, £8 should be 8.00).

Each correct answer earns one piece of the jigsaw.

Drag the jigsaw pieces into this rectangle to assemble the joke!

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If 3kg of sugar costs £2.10 find the cost of 1kg

£ Correct Wrong

If 2 litres of milk costs £1.76 find the cost of 1 litre

£ Correct Wrong

If a 2kg bag of rice costs £2.86 find the cost of 1kg

£ Correct Wrong

A bottle of tomato ketchup contains 250g and costs £1.30. How much would 1kg cost?

£ Correct Wrong

A 200ml bottle of shampoo costs £1.60. How much will 1 litre of the shampoo cost at the same rate?

£ Correct Wrong

A 50g piece of chocolate costs 45p. How much would 1kg of chocolate cost at this rate?

£ Correct Wrong

Sausages are £1.68 for eight. How much is one sausage?

£ Correct Wrong

Free range eggs are £1.26 for a box of six. How much is one egg?

£ Correct Wrong

If 50g of black lumpfish caviar is £3 how much is just 1g?

£ Correct Wrong

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This is Unit Pricing - Jigsaw Joke level 1. You can also try:
Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5

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This activity is suitable for students of mathematics all around the world. Use the button below to change the currency symbol used to make it more relevant to your students. You may wish to choose an unfamiliar currency to extend your students' experience.

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Instructions

Try your best to answer the questions above. Type your answers into the boxes provided leaving no spaces. As you work through the exercise regularly click the "check" button. If you have any wrong answers, do your best to do corrections but if there is anything you don't understand, please ask your teacher for help.

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Level 1 - Where the unit cost can be found by multiplying or dividing by a whole number

Level 2 - Where the unit cost can be found by multiplying or dividing by a fraction

Level 3 - Calculating the price difference per unit of given products

Level 4 - A Best Buy drag-and-drop activity

Level 5 - A harder Best Buy drag-and-drop activity

More Ratio including lesson Starters, visual aids, investigations and self-marking exercises.

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