CSEC Mathematics: School Based Assessment

Candidate Name: Kayla White

Centre Name : St Hilda's Diocesan High School

Centre Number: 100109

Year of Exam : 2025

Candidate Number :

Teacher : Mr Buchanan

Project Title : An investigation to determine which business places : Little Panda Express and

Food to Go is overall cheaper.

TITLE. PAGE NUMBER

RESEARCH TOPIC. 2

OBJECTIVE 3

INTRODUCTION 4

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION. 5

PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA 8

DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 13

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CONCLUSION 14

TITLE

● An investigation to determine which business places: Little Panda Express and Food to

Go is overall cheaper.

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 OBJECTIVE

● To investigate which food place is more popular between the two .

● To determine the organization that has the cheapest and best variety of rice and fry

chicken and Chicken and chips between Little Panda Express and Food to Go in Brown's

town.

● To determine how often each organization changes food prices to benefit customers.

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 INTRODUCTION

This school based assessment is done in order to determine which two business places :

Little panda Express and Food to go is cheaper . A comparison of the price of two dishes

will be done : Fry chicken and rice and Chicken and chips. The researcher intends to

know this because of a situation where they cannot cook at a given time they could

venture to one of these two businesses .

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 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

This research intends to collect data from both food establishment; The managers to be exact , It

will be done at the end of a consecutive week ( November 11,2024 - November 16,2024 ) , It

will be done in the form of an questionnaire, By handing out a document to each participant

which outlines : The amount of money you can spend on a meal ( The cost price) , The amount

each establishment but each items for .

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 QUESTIONNAIRE

Please answer the following questions .

1. What are the price ranges for the following dishes :

● Fry chicken and rice - _____________

● Chicken and chips - _______________

2. Do you offer any discounts or promotions ? If yes please explain .

⬜ Yes __________________________________

⬜ No __________________________________

3. Which of the two dishes is more popular ?

⬜ Fry chicken and rice

⬜ Chicken and chips

4. What is the price of the dishes when served in different portions ?

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 ● Small Large

Fry chicken and rice _______ ________

Chicken and chips _________ ________

5. How often do you change your menu prices ?

_______________________________

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 PRESENTATION OF DATA

Fig 1 . Pie chart showing the popularity of dishes.

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Figure 1 is a pie chart showing the popularity of the chosen dishes which are: Chicken and rice

and Chicken and chips was the main focus . This graph is depicting that chicken and chips at

both establishment is the most popularity .

Figure 2 .This is a chart showing how often Little panda Express changes the food prices .

At little Panda Express the managers set prices in order for customers to be able to pay and

purchase the food stuffs , Which is why they change the prices often especially if the price of the

supply and demand chain is below equilibrum.

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Figure 3 . This is a line graph showing how often Food to Go changes the prices of the

dishes.

At food to go it is said that it depends on the price of the goods alongside oftentimes that food

prices change .

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TABLE SHOWING THE COMPARISON BETWEEN FOOD TO GO AND J LITTLE

PANDA EXPRESS

Food to Go Little panda Express

Food prices Small - $900 Small - $1000

Medium -$1000 Medium - $1200

Big-$1200 Big -$1500

Most popular dish Chicken and chips Chicken and chips

How often does a food price Depends on the price of Often

change each

Figure 4 . This is a table showing the comparison between the organization in the food

prices and the most popular dish .

For each establishment there differences and comparisons ,For each they have the same

popular dish however there prices vary For food to go it is if the price of the each good changes

and for little panda it is often . The process of each meal is cheaper however which proves that

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Food to go is cheaper than Little panda.In order to find the profit that each organization makes

we will have to have a formula.

Profit = Selling price - Cost price

DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS

As shown above this entire SBA is about investigating Food to Go and Little panda Express

located in Brown Town is better between the two by showing : The one that has the most popular

dish , The one that rotates for prices and the prices and price varieties. Based on the graphs above

and table it is shown that food to Go is cheaper than Little Panda because of how it varies in food

sides.

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 CONCLUSION

Upon the completion of the SBA the objectives were all completed with research carried out . In

order to find out the profit each organization made we had to take away the selling price from the

cost price . We also discovered that food To go sells there Chicken and chips at a cheaper price

that Little panda Express .This research help the researcher to find out which organization is

cheaper , which has the most popular dish also .

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