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Multiplicative Scaling Practice Worksheet

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Multiplicative Scaling Practice Worksheet

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🔢 Part 1: Basic Scaling Problems

1. A recipe calls for 3 cups of flour. If you want to make 4 times the recipe, how many cups of flour do you need?

7 cups

12 cups

15 cups

9 cups

2. Sarah has 24 chocolates. She wants to reduce this amount by 1/3. How many chocolates will she have left?

8 chocolates

16 chocolates

18 chocolates

12 chocolates

3. A packet contains 15 chocolates. How many chocolates are in 6 packets?

Answer: _________ chocolates

4. Complete the scaling pattern:

2 × 5 = 10

4 × 5 = _____

8 × 5 = _____

16 × 5 = _____

🍰 Part 2: Recipe Scaling

5. Original recipe serves 4 people and uses:

• 2 cups of sugar

• 3 eggs

• 250g butter

If you want to triple the recipe to serve 12 people, fill in the new amounts:

Sugar: _____ cups

Eggs: _____ eggs

Butter: _____ grams

6. A pizza recipe calls for 400g of flour for 2 pizzas. How much flour is needed for:

a) 6 pizzas: _______ grams

b) 1 pizza: _______ grams

c) 10 pizzas: _______ grams

7. Show your working for question 6a using concrete materials or drawings:

⭐ Part 3: Extension - Fractional Scaling

8. A school has 120 students. If 3/4 of them play sport, how many students play sport?
9. Challenge: A recipe serves 8 people and uses 2.5 cups of milk. How much milk is needed to serve 6 people?

Hint: First work out how much milk per person, then scale up.

10. Tom has 3 packets of chocolates with 12 chocolates in each packet. He gives away 2/3 of all his chocolates. How many chocolates does he have left?

Show your working:

Answer: _______ chocolates

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