Sunday, February 27, 2022

Shrinkflation

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What do you think this word means?

Inflation in the cost of living (2021) was estimated to be about a 7% rise.

If “shrinkflation” is happening at the same time, is the unit cost for those shrunk items actually raised even more than 7%?  Let’s find out.

The activity: Shrink-flation.pdf

CCSS: 6.RP, 7.RP, HSM, HSF, MP2

For members we have an editable Word docx and our solutions.

Shrink-flation.docx    Shrink-flation-solution.pdf

from Yummy Math https://www.yummymath.com/2022/shrinkflation/

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