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Graduation Numeracy Assessment: Sample - Giving Out Bonuses Situation and Questions May 2018

You are the manager of Text 'N' Talk mobile communications and are creating a bonus program for top salespeople and teams for their work in April. To determine who should receive the individual and team bonuses of $500, you need to calculate the number of phones each salesperson sold based on the sales reports and decide which person sold the most. Some salespeople may disagree with averaging their yearly sales over months to determine the April amount. You must justify your decision about which sales team should receive the team bonus based on the presented information and calculations.

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Graduation Numeracy Assessment: Sample - Giving Out Bonuses Situation and Questions May 2018

You are the manager of Text 'N' Talk mobile communications and are creating a bonus program for top salespeople and teams for their work in April. To determine who should receive the individual and team bonuses of $500, you need to calculate the number of phones each salesperson sold based on the sales reports and decide which person sold the most. Some salespeople may disagree with averaging their yearly sales over months to determine the April amount. You must justify your decision about which sales team should receive the team bonus based on the presented information and calculations.

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Graduation Numeracy Assessment

Sample – Giving Out Bonuses


Situation and Questions
May 2018

Ministry of
Education
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You are the manager at Text ‘N’ Tal and have created a bonus program for your top
salesperson and team.

TT TEXT ‘N’ TALK


N keeping you in touch!
Sales Report
Sales Person Team Number of Phones Sold for the Month of April (30 days)

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1. What questions do you need to ask in order to make a decision about who gets
the bonuses?

Select all that apply.

How much do the phones cost?

How many hours did each sales person work per week?

Can a sales person get both the individual and the team bonus?

Did each sales person accurately report the number of phones sold?

What is the average length of employment of each sales person at Text ‘N’ Talk?

2. You decide to do the following computation with Steven’s Sales Report: 55 .


What are you calculating? 7
Division (55 in the week, meaning
The average number of phones he sold in 1 day. dividing that by 7 = per day > 55/7 =
average per day
The average number of phones he sold in 1 week.

The average number of phones he sold in 1 month (April).

The average number of phones he sold in 1 year.

3. Of Ainsley, Avery, Diana and Jasmine, which sales person sold the most phones in April?

Ainsley

Avery

Diana

Jasmine

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4. You calculate April phone sales from the information your sales team members provided.
Gabrielle reports 4113 phones sold in the last year. You decide that the fair way to
calculate Gabrielle’s April phone sales is to divide this number by 12, giving her 342.75,
or approximately 343 phones sold.

Why might some of your sales team members disagree with your approach?

Select all that apply.

Gabrielle could not have sold 343 phones in April.

Gabrielle likely did not sell the same number of phones each month throughout
the year.
Gabrielle is the only sales team member whose April phone sales were calculated by
averaging.
Gabrielle’s phone sales could be calculated by dividing 4113 by 365 days and
multiplying by 30 days.

5. (Student-Choice Question)*

Which sales team should get the bonus?

Explain and justify your solution.

Need assistance working through this problem?

1. Watch the videos that explain how to use the five numeracy processes (ways of
thinking and working) to solve questions in the Graduation Numeracy Assessment.
and / or
2. Work through the Collaborative Learning Guide that includes further suggestions
on how students can work through these problems and develop their numeracy.

These can be done independently or collaboratively with peers.

*In each student-choice component, students choose one of two questions based on problems they have encountered earlier in the common
component of the assessment. This question is one such example.

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