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7 Mathematics Sample Performance Task Student Worksheet

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You are a volunteer at International Food Assistance. This organization delivers food baskets to help
people around the world. The requirements for each food basket are shown below.
Here are the requirements for each food basket:

Contains grains such as rice, wheat, or oatmeal


Contains legumes such as kidney beans, nuts, or lentils
Contains exactly 35 grams (g) of oil for cooking
Contains exactly 50 grams (g) of Super Cereal
Has a minimum of 2100 total calories
At least 8% of the total calories come from protein
At least 10% of the total calories come from fat
The cost of each basket cannot exceed $0.75

Here are the contents and quantities of a Sample Food Basket:


Protein
Fat
Food
Quantity
Calories
(1 g = 4
(1 g = 9
calories)
calories)
Rice
800 g
920
9g
2g
Lentils
240 g
812
34 g
2g
Oil
35 g
315
0g
35 g
Super Cereal
50 g
200
10 g
5g

Cost per
kilogram
$0.58
$0.90
$1.20
$0.12

This assessment has four questions about planning food baskets. You will examine factors such as
nutrition and food prices. The final question requires you to design a food basket using the interactive
simulation table. Read and answer each question.

Grade 7 Mathematics Sample Performance Task Student Worksheet 1

Grade 7 Mathematics Sample Performance Task Student Worksheet 2

Grade 7 Mathematics Sample Performance Task Student Worksheet 3

1.

Create an expression to calculate the number of calories from fat in the Sample Food Basket.

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2.

Create an expression to calculate the percent of total calories from protein in the Sample Food
Basket.

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3.

Explain how the Sample Food Basket does or does not meet all of the requirements for a food
basket.
Type your answer in the space provided. Use specific numbers in your explanation.

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4.

Bad weather is damaging rice crops, so you need to use wheat or oatmeal as the grain requirement
in the food baskets. Enter different quantities in the table Nutritional Value and Cost of Wheat
and Oatmeal to explore the changes in calories, protein, fat, and cost of replacing rice with wheat
or oatmeal.
Using your information from exploring in the table Nutritional Value and Cost of Wheat and
Oatmeal, you need to make a new food basket.
Part A
Determine the contents of a new basket that uses wheat or oatmeal instead of rice and meets all of
the requirements. Enter your information in all six blank cells in the table.

Part B
Explain how your new basket meets all of the requirements for a food basket.
Type your answer in the space provided.

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