An Average Family Compared to an Average Medieval Family

What does an average family on five spend on food per a week?

This chart shows what percent in the US

spend each amount of money on food per

a week!

How much did the average medieval family of five spend on food per a week?

The average medieval family of five spent less then 17 cents per a week on food alone! That's only 3.4 cents a person!

This is a picture of a medieval shopping list!

Interesting Medieval Facts

During the medieval times, water was not drank. They believed it was contaminated.

Instead they drank wine and ale. Even the children did! They would water it down till they thought the alcohol was gone.

You could judge a medieval family's

class just by what their windows were

like! The higher classes had shutters and open windows. The lower classes' had no glass and sometimes had no windows at all.

Math Areas Used

• Graphing
• Finding and comparing prices
• Finding the area
• Finding the volume

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An Average Family Compared to an Average Medieval Family

Houses, Houses, and More Houses

The average modern family of five spends about $165.00 per a week on food alone! That's $33.00 per a person!

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Area of a Medieval House

The houses length and width depended on the class they were in. No one really knows for sure what the sizes of them were.

Ex.

The length of this home is 72 ft.

and the width is 48 ft.

72 x 48= 3,456 ft2

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Modern Houses

An average house costs about $350,000.00 To rent is about $1,200.00 per year.

Answer:

Medieval Houses

During the medieval times, most people only had enough money to rent. The average rent cost was 5 shillings per a year. That's is only .081 cents a year!

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Volume of a Modern House

Ex.

The length of this house is

72 ft, the width is 12 ft, and

the height is 11 ft.

72 x 12 x 11=9,504 ft3