There are quite a few facts eleven plus children need to
learn – but one vital one is that a pound of tea makes between 150 and 200 cups
of tea! Every time your eleven plus child offers to make a cup of tea it may be
worth-while checking how many questions are left to do!
You could take time out to explain that tea is classified
for popular distribution by the method of curing and the size of the leaf.
Green tea is from leaves that have withered and fermented.
Back tea comes from leaves that have fermented before heat
treatment.
Oolong tea is only partly fermented.
The words pekoe and orange pekoe refer to the size of the
leaves.
We all know that most tea is a blend of several varieties and qualities. Wholesale merchants
will buy their tea from many different plantations. I grew up in Zimbabwe where
tea was grown in Chipinga
and the Honde Valley. Both areas were close to the town where I went to school. A
little eleven plus question springs to mind.
A
wholesaler, some years ago, bought 20 kilo of tea at 60p per kilo, 50 kilo at
52p and 30 kilo at 44p. If the wholesaler mixed the three kinds together, what
was the average cost of the mixture per kilo?
20
kilo at 60p costs 1200p
50
kilo at 52p costs 2600p
30
kilo at 42p costs 1320p
100
kilo of the mixture costs 5120p
The
average cost per kilo is 5120p divided by 100 = 51p.
A
kilo of tea should make about 500 cups! Ask your child to estimate what the
wholesaler was paying for a cup of tea!
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