Propagation For Profit

Problem Solving

Plant Pot Prices

30p per pot 5 seeds

10p per pot 2 seeds

Seeds are free!!!

How many large pots can you buy? You have £1.80 How many large pots can you buy for £1.80?These cost 30p eachClick on the correct answer!

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20

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How many small pots can you buy? You have £1.80 How many small pots can you buy for £1.80?These cost 10p eachClick on the correct answer!

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20

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Plant Seeds in the Big PotsYou have bought 6 large pots

How many seeds can you plant in the large pots if each pot takes 5 seeds?

5 12 16 20

23 11 30 29

35 25 0 31

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Plant Seeds in the Small PotsYou have bought 18 small pots

How many seeds can you plant in the small pots if each pot takes 2 seeds?

20 9 16 34

23 11 39 38

35 40 37 36

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Big Pots

Your 6 big pots have grown – 5 plants in each Big Pot – 30 plants in total

You need to move them to smaller pots to sell.

Tiny pots cost 5p each. How much will your tiny pots cost in total?

£1.20 £1.50 £2.10 £1.80

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Small Pots

Your small pot plants have grown – 2 in each Small Pot – You have 36 plants in total

You need to move them to tiny pots to sell. Tiny pots cost 5p each.. How much will your

tiny pots cost in total?

£1.80 £1.10 £1.20 £3.20

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You need to propagate your big potsSummary: You have 30 plants from the big pots How much did you spend to propagate these

plants? (£1.80 to buy big pots + £1.50 to buy tiny

pots) – All seeds were free

£2.13 £3.30 £2.30 £4.30

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You need to propagate your small potsSummary: You have 36 plants from the small pots How much did you spend to propagate these

plants? (£1.80 to buy small pots + £1.80 to buy tiny

pots) – All seeds were free

£3.60 £2.60 £2.16 £3.06

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Selling your plants

Summary: 36 plants were grown in the small pots This cost £3.60

How much did one plant cost to grow?

(£3.60 divided by 36)

10p11p

£1.001p

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Selling your plants

Summary: 30 plants were grown in the big pots This cost £3.30

How much did one plant cost to grow?

(£3.30 divided by 30) 10p

11p

£1.00

1p

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Profit

If you sell the plants from the big pots for 20p each, how much profit will you make?

Remember that profit = Income – Costs

If you sell the plants from the small pots for 20p each, how much profit will you make?

Remember that profit = Income – Costs

Summary

Profit for Big Pots Income = 30 plants x 20p = £6.00 Costs = £3.30 Profit = £6.00 - £3.30 Profit = £2.70 Profit per plant = £2.70 / 30 Profit per plant = 9p

Profit for Small Pots Income = 36 plants x 20p = £7.20 Costs = £3.60 Profit = £7.20 - £3.60 Profit = £3.60 Profit per plant = £3.60 / 36 Profit per plant = 10p

Discuss…

Were you surprised at the results?

What factors would influence the choice of pot size? (e.g. time, compost needed, etc.)

Is there another solution? (Could you use the tiny pots initially and not propagate?)

What if each seed cost 2p each? Would that change the results?

Have we taken into account that some seeds may fail?