1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. APPLY Have you been planning and eating nutritious food for your breakfast? Remember that breakfast is the most important meal for everybody, not only for a growing child. Are you aware of how much your family is spending on food? Can you help in tracking and planning your family's food budget for breakfast? Your goal is to apply your knowledge about base, percentage, and rate to track your weekly food expense and create your family's food budget for breakfast. First, know how much you currently spend on food each week. Track everything that you spend on food for a week. Include expenses on food by checking grocery receipts, market expenses, and purchases. Add all your food expenses and divide the result by 7 to find your daily food budget. Divide your daily food budget by 3 to get your daily food budget for breakfast. Show your calculations in a chart format. Answer the questions that follow. Copy the chart and answer the questions in your notebook. 1. Grocery food expense 2. Market food expense 3. Other food expense Weekly Food Expense/Budget Particulars Total weekly food expense Daily food expense Daily food budget on breakfast Peso Cost 1840 *5701 What percent of your weekly food expense goes to groceries? What is your daily food budget? What percent of your weekly budget goes to breakfast? How much do you spend on breakfast? What percentage of your weekly budget goes to breakfast? 10 What percentage of your daily food budget goes to breakfast?
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Answer:
Here's the chart format for tracking your weekly food expenses and creating your family's food budget for breakfast:
Weekly Food Expense/Budget
Particulars Peso Cost
Grocery food expense
Market food expense
Other food expense
Total weekly food expense
Daily food expense
Daily food budget on breakfast
To answer the questions:
1. To know the percent of your weekly food expense that goes to groceries, divide your grocery food expense by your total weekly food expense and multiply the result by 100.
Example: If your grocery food expense is P1,000 and your total weekly food expense is P3,000:
P1,000 ÷ P3,000 x 100 = 33.33%
Answer: 33.33%
2. To get your daily food budget, divide your total weekly food expense by 7.
Example: If your total weekly food expense is P3,000:
P3,000 ÷ 7 = P428.57
Answer: P428.57
3. To know what percent of your weekly budget goes to breakfast, divide your daily food budget on breakfast by your total weekly food expense and multiply the result by 100.
Example: If your daily food budget on breakfast is P100 and your total weekly food expense is P3,000:
P100 ÷ P3,000 x 100 = 3.33%
Answer: 3.33%
4. To know how much you spend on breakfast, simply look at your daily food budget on breakfast.
Example: If your daily food budget on breakfast is P100:
Answer: P100
5. To know what percentage of your weekly budget goes to breakfast, divide your daily food budget on breakfast by your total weekly food expense and multiply the result by 100.
Example: If your daily food budget on breakfast is P100 and your total weekly food expense is P3,000:
P100 ÷ P3,000 x 100 = 3.33%
Answer: 3.33%
6. To know what percentage of your daily food budget goes to breakfast, divide your daily food budget on breakfast by your daily food expense and multiply the result by 100.
Example: If your daily food budget on breakfast is P100 and your daily food expense is P428.57:
P100 ÷ P428.57 x 100 = 23.33%
Answer: 23.33%