Unit 11 Contents

19. Shannon's little sister mixed 4 cups of orange juice with 10 cups of lime soda. When Shannon drank the punch, she thought it tasted funny.
1. Why did the punch taste different from the usual recipe?
2. Plot a point for 10 cups of lime soda and 4 cups of orange juice on your graph. Does the point lie on the line?
1. If Shannon follows the recipe and uses 5 cups of orange juice, how many total cups of punch will she make?
2. Write a ratio comparing the number of cups of orange juice to the total number of cups of punch.

Peanut Cake

Check-In: Questions 21–25

Jessie and Jacob will make peanut cakes for the whole class:

1. Write the ratio of the amount of flour in the peanut cake to the amount of butter using a colon.
2. Write the ratio of the amount of flour to the amount of butter as a fraction.
22. If they use 18 ounces of flour, how many ounces of butter should they use? Write a proportion to help you solve this problem.
23. If they use 12 ounces of butter, how much flour should they use? Write a proportion to help you solve this problem.
24. Jessie and Jacob can also make a table and graph to help them find the ratios of flour to butter for different amounts of peanut cakes. Use Centimeter Grid Paper to make a table and graph using the data points of flour to butter given in Questions 21, 22, and 23. Draw a best-fit line.
25. If Jessie and Jacob cut the peanut cake recipe in half, how much flour and how much butter will they use?
1. Describe your strategy for solving this problem.
2. Write your solution as a ratio.