Math Project
By: Aubrey Lane
Mrs. McAdams is preparing her Famous Party Punch for her Niece’s Birthday
Each batch of punch serves 4 people. The party punch recipe is listed below:
4 cups cranberry concentrate
2 cups raspberry concentrate
2 cups ginger ale
8 Ingredients Total
Converting
Cranberry Concentrate:4/8=1/2=.50=50%
Raspberry Concentrate:2/8=1/4=.25=25%
Ginger Ale:2/8=1/4=.25=25%
Graph
Table
Proportion & Scale Factor
Problems to Solve with this Information
Problem 1
Mrs. McAdams prepares her famous party punch by using 36 cups of cranberry concentrate. Use a table to represent the amounts of the other ingredients needed to make the punch and the number of people that each batch will serve
Problem 2
Use a proportion to represent the amount of raspberry concentrate Mrs. McAdams would need if she used 11 cups of ginger ale. Identify the scale factor needed to determine the amount of raspberry concentrate needed to make the punch
Problem 3
Use qualitative reasoning to compare and predict the amount of cranberry juice and ginger ale needed to serve 15 people.
Use quantitative reasoning to compare and predict the amount of cranberry juice and ginger ale needed to serve 15 people.
Problem 4
Mrs. McAdams sold her famous party punch recipe to Great Foods Catering Company. Great Foods Catering Company will make 66 gallons of punch and serve the punch by the glass for an event. There will be 6 ounces of punch in each glass.Use a proportion to identify the number of 6-ounce glasses of punch that can be poured from 66 gallons of punch.
Problem 5
A total of 88 glasses of punch were spilled during the event. Determine the percent of the total number of 6-ounce glasses of punch that were spilled and represent this percent using concrete or pictorial models, fractions, and decimals.