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Baking with Fractions
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Baking with Fractions
You are helping prepare muffins for a community bake sale. Use the recipe card and the questions below to scale the ingredients, compare fractions and plan the batches. Show your working where asked.
Muffin recipe card
This recipe makes 12 muffins.
Ingredient
Amount
Flour
2 1/4 cups
Milk
1 1/2 cups
Sugar
3/4 cup
Oil
1/3 cup
1.The bake sale needs 30 muffins. What fraction of the original recipe should you make? Choose the correct scaling factor.
- 2/5
- 5/2
- 3/2
- 12/30
2.Use the scaling factor for 30 muffins to calculate the amount of flour needed. Give your answer as a mixed number or whole number of cups, and show your calculation.
3.The original recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar. If you make 30 muffins, how much sugar will you need? Show how you multiply the fractions.
4.Show 5/8 on the fraction bar. How many of the eight equal parts should be shaded?
5.A measuring jug has 1 1/2 cups of milk in it. You pour in another 3/4 cup. How much milk is in the jug now? Give the answer in simplest form.
6.You have 2 1/4 cups of flour, but the batch needs 1 5/8 cups. How much flour will be left? Show your working.
7.A recipe needs 2 3/4 teaspoons of vanilla. You only have a 1/2-teaspoon measure. How many full half-teaspoon measures and what extra fraction of a measure will make the correct amount?
8.A batch of 12 muffins uses 1/3 cup of oil. Is this more or less oil than 1/2 cup? Use a common denominator or equivalent fractions to justify your answer.
TrueFalse
9.The ingredients for one batch cost $18.60. What is the cost per muffin if the batch makes 12 muffins? Give your answer in dollars and cents.
10.For 30 muffins, each ingredient amount is multiplied by 5/2. Explain why using this same factor for every ingredient keeps the recipe in the correct proportions.
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