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Scaling Up

Life Skills · Entrepreneurship · ages 9-11
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  1. Which of these is a sign that a business is scaling up?

    • It hires more workers to keep up with orders
    • It stops selling to new customers
    • It throws away its extra supplies

  2. What does it mean when a business 'scales up'?

    • It closes down for good
    • It grows bigger, like making more products or reaching more customers
    • It keeps everything exactly the same size

  3. Scaling up a business means making it smaller so it is easier to run.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Which pair names two real challenges of growing a business?

    • Needing more money and needing more people to help
    • Needing fewer customers and needing less lemonade
    • Needing to close early and needing to lower quality

  5. A cookie stand suddenly has twice as many customers as usual. What challenge will the owner probably face first?

    • Needing more flour and sugar to bake enough cookies
    • Needing to invent a brand new flavor
    • Needing to lower the price of every cookie

  6. A lemonade stand sold 8 cups on day 1. After scaling up, it sold 3 times as many cups on day 30. How many cups did it sell on day 30?

    Answer: ______________

  7. Put these lemonade stand steps in the order they would most likely happen: (1) Selling from one small table, (2) Buying lemons in bigger batches, (3) Asking a friend to help, (4) Opening a second stand across town.

    • 4, 3, 2, 1
    • 2, 4, 1, 3
    • 1, 3, 2, 4

  8. Leo's lemonade stand got very popular, but he decided to keep making lemonade all by himself with just one pitcher, without asking for help or buying more supplies. What is most likely to happen?

    • He will easily keep up with all the new customers
    • He will run out of lemonade and customers will wait too long
    • His costs will disappear completely
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  1. It hires more workers to keep up with orders · Hiring more workers to handle more orders is a classic sign of a growing business.
  2. It grows bigger, like making more products or reaching more customers · Scaling up means growing bigger, not staying the same size or closing.
  3. False · Scaling up means making a business bigger, not smaller.
  4. Needing more money and needing more people to help · Growing businesses often need more money for supplies and more people to keep up with the extra work.
  5. Needing more flour and sugar to bake enough cookies · More customers means the owner needs more materials to make enough cookies for everyone.
  6. 24 · Multiply 8 cups by 3 to find the new amount: 8 x 3 = 24 cups.
  7. 1, 3, 2, 4 · A business usually starts small, gets help, then buys supplies more efficiently, and finally expands to a new spot.
  8. He will run out of lemonade and customers will wait too long · Without more people or supplies, one person cannot keep up with fast-growing demand.
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