Solve. Combine strategies to help you.
- Ann and Greg each made lemonade. Ann used
10 lemons for every 1 quart of water. Greg used
5 lemons for every pint of water. Did the two
friends use equal ratios of lemons to water? - The ratio of beans to rice in a recipe is 3 : 4.
Jake cooks 2 cups of rice and 5 pounds of
chicken. How many cups of beans should
he use? - The class has 18 baking sheets. Each sheet
holds 1 dozen cookies. A batch of cookie
batter makes 3 dozen cookies. The class
fills all of the sheets with cookies. Then
they sell bags of 6 cookies each at a
bake sale. How many bags of cookies
did they make? - Lindsey and her sisters are baking pies to
take to their family reunion. They plan to bake
one cherry pie and two apple pies for every 14
people attending. How many pies will they
bake for 126 people? - Tara made some snack bars. She ate
8 of them. She gave Paul 50% of the
bars that were left. Then she had 11 bars.
How many snack bars did she make?
Use the circle graph for problems 16–19.
- What part of the trail mix is raisins?
- What is the ratio of apricots to raisins?
- Sue makes a batch of trail mix using 1 cup of
granola. Will she use more than
1
2 cup of apricots? - Use the data in the circle graph to write
a problem. Then solve it.
Use These Strategies
Write an Equation
Use a Graph
Use More Than One Step
Work Backward
Make a Table
10%
15% 15%
25%
35%
Apricots
Sunflower Seeds
Trail Mix Ingredients
Peanuts
Raisins
Granola
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