Lesson 3: Practice Problems
Problem 1
A recipe for 1 batch of spice mix says, “Combine 3 teaspoons of mustard seeds, 5 teaspoons of chili powder, and 1 teaspoon of salt.” How many batches are represented by the diagram? Explain or show your reasoning.
Problem 2
Priya makes chocolate milk by mixing 2 cups of milk and 5 tablespoons of cocoa powder. Draw a diagram that clearly represents two batches of her chocolate milk.
Problem 3
In a recipe for fizzy grape juice, the ratio of cups of sparkling water to cups of grape juice concentrate is 3 to 1.
Find two more ratios of cups of sparkling water to cups of juice concentrate that would make a mixture that tastes the same as this recipe.
Describe another mixture of sparkling water and grape juice that would taste different than this recipe.
Problem 4 From Unit 2 Lesson 1
Write the missing number under each tick mark on the number line.
Problem 5 From Unit 2 Lesson 1
At the kennel, there are 6 dogs for every 5 cats.
The ratio of dogs to cats is to .
The ratio of cats to dogs is to .
For every dogs there are cats.
The ratio of cats to dogs is : .
Problem 6 From Unit 1 Lesson 17
Elena has 80 unit cubes. What is the volume of the largest cube she can build with them?
Problem 7 From Unit 2 Lesson 1
(As long asdoes not equal 0.)