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When Profit Is Not the Guide is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how profit changes what sellers do, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.7.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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When Profit Is Not the Guide

D2.Eco.7.3-5

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1.Why might a firm avoid the worst damaged district?
  • A.Bricks are heavier there
  • B.Costs are highest there and the profit thinnest
  • C.It is further away
2.The agreement fixes prices for five years. What does that remove?
  • A.The timber
  • B.The notice period
  • C.The pressure competition would otherwise put on the price
3.Two suppliers compete for a timber contract. What happens to the price?
  • A.It is fixed by law
  • B.It rises
  • C.It tends to fall, because the buyer can go to the other
4.What does that decision cost?
  • A.The materials
  • B.The land
  • C.Whatever speed the profit motive would have supplied
5.Why did brick makers expand after 1946?
  • A.Bricks got lighter
  • B.Clay was discovered
  • C.A national building programme guaranteed demand for bricks
6.Why does profit make sellers attend to buyers?
  • A.Sellers must be polite
  • B.They earn nothing unless somebody chooses to buy from them
  • C.Buyers make rules
7.Private firms want the housing work. What is pulling them?
  • A.Firms enjoy building
  • B.Councils asked them
  • C.There is money to be made building at scale
8.Why did the government put allocation above profit?
  • A.Firms refused
  • B.Left to profit, building would go where it paid, not where need was greatest
  • C.Profit is illegal

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Answer key — When Profit Is Not the Guide

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Costs are highest there and the profit thinnest
  2. 2.The pressure competition would otherwise put on the price
  3. 3.It tends to fall, because the buyer can go to the other
  4. 4.Whatever speed the profit motive would have supplied
  5. 5.A national building programme guaranteed demand for bricks
  6. 6.They earn nothing unless somebody chooses to buy from them
  7. 7.There is money to be made building at scale
  8. 8.Left to profit, building would go where it paid, not where need was greatest

More practice for D2.Eco.7.3-5

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.7.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.