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Kestrel Avenue Kitchen Choices

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Kestrel Avenue Kitchen Choices

Use scarcity and opportunity cost to make neighborhood decisions.

Read the neighborhood report

Read the report about Kestrel Avenue Neighborhood Hub. Then answer the questions.

A Saturday at the Neighborhood Hub

Kestrel Avenue Neighborhood Hub is a small storefront in a busy city neighborhood. On Saturdays, neighbors use its kitchen to prepare free food. The hub has one kitchen, a pantry, and volunteers who give their time. Resources are limited, so the volunteers cannot do every useful activity they imagine.

For the next Saturday, the pantry has a $60 donation and the kitchen is available for 24 volunteer hours. The volunteers are considering two plans. The soup-and-bread plan would make 20 meal containers. It would cost $50 and take 18 hours. The snack-box plan would make 30 snack boxes. It would cost $36 and take 10 hours. Each container or box would go to one neighbor.

The volunteers want to give food to as many neighbors as possible while staying within the money and time available. They cannot carry out both plans: together, the plans would cost $86 and take 28 hours. If the volunteers choose one plan, the other useful plan is the next-best choice they give up. The hub's coordinator asks the volunteers to explain their choice with facts from the report.

1.
Which two resources are limited in the Saturday decision?
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2.
Circle the TWO details that show the hub faces scarcity.

3.

Because the two plans need more money and hours than the hub has, the hub faces .

4.

If the hub tried both plans, it would spend $.

5.
Which plan is the better choice if the hub's goal is to feed as many neighbors as possible?
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6.
If the volunteers choose the snack-box plan, what is the opportunity cost?
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Think about choices

Use the report and the new situations to think about what is scarce and what people give up.

7.
Why can the hub not carry out both plans on Saturday?
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8.
The hub has 14 volunteer hours left after choosing the snack-box plan. It can use those hours for either a cooking lesson or delivery of 20 extra snack boxes. If it chooses the cooking lesson, what is its opportunity cost?
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9.
A youth group near Kestrel Avenue has $25. It can buy five art kits for $5 each or ten notebooks for $2 each. Its goal is to give supplies to more children. Which choice best meets that goal?
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10.
Circle the TWO details that show why the snack-box plan serves more neighbors than the soup-and-bread plan.

11.
Match each economic idea to its meaning.
12.
Suppose the hub receives a $90 donation but still has only 24 kitchen hours. Could it carry out both original plans?
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13.
Which action shows a good economic choice when resources are limited?
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Show your economic thinking

Use facts and ideas from the report in your answers.

14.
Which Kestrel Avenue plan should the volunteers choose if they want to feed as many neighbors as possible? Use at least two facts from the report to explain why, and name the opportunity cost.
15.
Imagine your neighborhood group has one afternoon and enough money for only one project: planting flowers or repairing a shared bench. What information should the group compare before choosing? Give one possible opportunity cost.