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Bud Vase Critical Thinking
You may write on this paper. Please include the link to any website you use to find your
answers.
1. Go to the web site globalrose.com
2. The FFA has decided to sell Mother’s Day flowers to the students as a fundraiser.
3. According to the website how much are each of the following flowers per stem? Hint
click details or do a little math.
1. Red Rose
2. Pink Carnation
3. Leatherleaf Fern
4. Hydrangea
5. Sunflower
6. Statice
4. What comes in a mixed green combo pack? How much does it cost?
5. What other supplies/cost (delivery etc.) will be needed for the FFA to sell Mothers
Day flowers? You are encouraged to be creative here. Every student should not want to
sell the same thing.
Flowers:
Supplies:
Other Cost:
6. How much will your Mother’s Day flower cost the FFA per item sold?
7. How much will you be able to sell the Mother’s Day flower to the student body to
make the best reasonable profit?
8. Please draw a picture of an advertisement for your Mother’s Day Flower to get the
word out and increase sales.
9. Using the supplies on globalrose.com how much would it cost you to make a 3 rose
bud vase?
List supplies and price.
10. Find an actual retail 3 rose bud vase for sale. How much does it cost? What is the
mark-up percentage based on your findings?
11. Click on the flower care guide on the right side of the home page. Here it will give
you tips on when to order and what to order. You are a florist who has an order to fill for
10 bud vases for a wealthy regular customer. He wants 3 red, 3 tropical (but all different),
3 for kids, and 1 for his sweet Great Granny. He wants them delivered THIS coming
Monday. You already have your vases, cards, and picks. You are out of ribbon, flowers,
and filler.
1. When should you order your supplies?
2. What are you going to order?
3. How much will your order cost?
4. Explain how you are going to use what you have ordered.
5. How much will you need to charge your customer for each arrangement?
6. Draw the following bud vases you are going to make and label the flower varieties
you are going to be using. The drawing should also be colored to show the color ribbon
and the color choices in flowers. Draw 1 red, 1 kids, and 1 for Granny.