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It is Saturday afternoon and you decide to take a trip to the shops.
Your shopping trip starts at Spend Less supermarket.

Answer the following questions about your visit to Spend Less.
Click in the button next to the answer you want to select.

You also need 1/2 kg of sugar. Which of the following bags would you buy?
500g	250g	100g

You will also need some milk. You will need 500ml for your recipe and you normally use about 2 litres a day. What size carton should you buy?
one litre (1l)	two litres (2l)	three litres (3l)

The last ingredient on the list is chocolate. You need 80 grams of chocolate. You have the choice between three bars, which bar do you need to buy?
60g	100g	35g

Once you have finished at the supermarket you move on to DIY Market.
Answer the following questions about your visit to DIY Market.

You would like to put a shelf up in your bedroom. You need some wood that measures 20 cm wide x 1m long. Which piece of wood has the correct measurements to be your shelf?
20cm x 90cm	20cm x 100cm	25cm x 105cm

To fix your shelf to the wall you need some rawl plugs. You need plugs that are 4cm long. The rawl plugs in the shop come in mm lengths. Which type do you need?
30mm	25mm	40mm

You would also like a new pair of curtains for your bedroom window. The window is 2 metres across and 1metre down. Which pair of curtains would best fit your window? The packets only tell you the measurements of one curtain.
80cm x 100cm	101cm x 100cm	60cm x 100cm

While you are at DIY Market you thought you would check out the price of garden fencing. Which unit of measurement do you think would be the best to measure the fence around your garden?
in millimeters (mm)	in centimeters (cm)	in meters (m)

Core Curriculum Reference:
N2/E3.2, MSS1/E2.5, MSS1/E2.6, MSS1/E2.7, MSS1/E3.5, MSS1/E3.6, MSS1/E3.7