Teaching Profit with a Business Activity

Burger truck profit scenario: with a $2.30 sale price, a $1.50 cost to make and monthly sales of 2,300, students list monthly expenses and work out the business's profit.
Year levels
Years 3–12
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1
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Updated Sep 20, 2026

Subject
Life Studies, Social Studies
Topic
Business Profit Activity, Business Profit
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Activity Introduction

An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about STEM subjects.

Business Profit

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Business Profit Activity

The activity is perfect for encouraging the researching skills for the students, while learning more about this topic.

Business Profit

This friendly designed worksheet is suitable for students at school, homeschooling, and as a group activity.

Instructions

Imagine you owned a burger truck, use the following information to figure out your business profit.

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Available in a PDF format.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Calculate profit from price, cost and sales volume

Skills covered

  • Expense planning — estimating the monthly costs of running a food truck

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