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Grocery Store Multiplication
Many daily applications use multiplication, ranging from the very simple to complex.
One everyday activity, such as grocery shopping, provides a great way to see how multiplication is used in a practical manner.
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; 7×2=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.
Next on the shopping list is a loaf of bread, and this item is advertised as on sale for twenty percent off the original price.
A little multiplication is needed to figure the new cost of the bread on sale, where the original cost of the bread is $4.00 and 4×20% or 4x.20=.80, 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 shopper’s groceries total $25.00 and the sales tax is 8%, then the shopper would owe an extra $2.00 in taxes, 25×8% or 25x.08=2.
The grocery store clerk also uses multiplication to quickly ring in identical products in one order.
If a customer purchases three bars of soap that cost $2.00 each, the clerk can multiply the price of soap to the number of bars, 3×2=6.
Multiplication is also used at the grocery store when the manager creates a shift schedule.
Shoppers flood the grocery store on Sunday afternoons, and the manager needs to have each cash register open and a bagger in every lane.
There are twelve checkout lanes in the store, and the manager needs a cashier and bagger for each lane; multiplication shows the schedule needs to have twenty-four people working, 12×2=24.
The high shopper traffic on Sunday inspired the store manager to run a sale on a certain product, and now the manager would like to know what percentage of revenue was generated from the 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.
Whether or not the special should be run again can be determined through the analysis of targeted goals based on the percentage of revenue generated from the sale.
From the customer, to cashier, and all the way to store management, multiplication is used to help the grocery store and shoppers buy and sell everyday products.
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