Ride-Share Profits: Multiplying Rational Numbers
Ride-Share Profits: Multiply and Divide Rational Numbers in a Real-World Business Simulation
In this engaging math worksheet, students apply their understanding of multiplying and dividing rational numbers. In this interactive activity, students simulate their first day running a fictional ride-share business. They track earnings from multiple passengers based on miles driven and calculate expenses from fuel usage. Using only multiplication and division of rational numbers, students determine profit for each trip, analyze total daily profit, and forecast earnings for a full week, month, and even a year.
This worksheet helps students make strong connections between rational number operations and real-life financial scenarios. As students perform calculations using decimals and fractions, they learn how these math skills are critical for managing business operations, setting goals, and planning ahead.
🔍 Key Learning Highlights:
- Multiply and divide positive rational numbers (fractions and decimals)
- Apply math to track fuel costs, earnings, and profits
- Forecast income over time using average profit calculations
- Analyze how rational number operations are used in business
Perfect for classroom use, homeschool math, or enrichment, this activity reinforces computational fluency while fostering real-world thinking. Teachers can enable randomization to give each student unique data, making it ideal for independent practice or digital learning platforms.
Whether you’re teaching rational number multiplication, preparing for standardized tests, or incorporating financial literacy into your curriculum, this worksheet delivers both engagement and deep conceptual understanding.
Learning Objective
Students will multiply and divide rational numbers to calculate earnings, expenses, and profits in a real-world ride-share scenario, then apply these operations to forecast weekly, monthly, and annual income—developing fluency with rational number operations and understanding how they support data-driven decision-making in business contexts.
Randomization Available
If randomization is enabled for this activity, each student will receive a different set of miles traveled, earnings per mile, and fuel cost values for their five rides. As a result, the calculations and final profit forecasts will vary for each student—supporting individualized learning and minimizing copying.
đź’ˇ Tip: When assigning this activity to your classroom, you can optionally enable randomization to give each student a unique version of the problems. When you re-assign the same worksheet, each student will get a new set of questions, helping them master the content through repeated practice.
