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

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Answer key — When Profit Is Not the Guide

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  1. 1.It tends to fall, because the buyer can go to the other
  2. 2.There is money to be made building at scale
  3. 3.Costs are highest there and the profit thinnest
  4. 4.Whatever speed the profit motive would have supplied
  5. 5.The pressure competition would otherwise put on the price
  6. 6.They earn nothing unless somebody chooses to buy from them
  7. 7.A national building programme guaranteed demand for bricks
  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.