Homework Week of November 12

STEM PAP MATH

Assigned November 12th. Due November 16th

Show work and solution for each problem in your math spiral.

1) Amy found an old-fashioned lemonade recipe that uses 1 cup of lemon juice for every 6 cups
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of water. Rebecca found a recipe that uses 1! cups of lemon juice for every 7! cups of water.
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Compare the two recipes to determine which has a greater proportion of lemon juice.

2) Based on the graph, how many students would be expected to choose animated or action as
their favorite type of movie if there were 450 students in the class?

3) The drawing below will be enlarged proportionally into a poster. If the poster will be 19.5
inches wide, how tall will the poster be? Xxx

4) A shade of green paint is created by mixing a certain amount of yellow paint with a certain
amount of blue paint. The ratio of yellow to blue paint is 3:7. Based on this ratio, how much
yellow paint would be needed to prepare 5 gallons of green paint?
5) International exchange houses trade money from one country for money of another country.
This process makes trade between countries easier. If the rate of exchange for the Indian
Rupee (INR) and the Japanese Yen (JPY) is 45 INR : 30 JPY, how many INR would be
equivalent to two JPR?

6) Jenny read 3 books in 7.5 hours. At this rate, how many books can Jenny read in one hour?

7) Anna has saved $37 of her allowance. She needs $50 to register for a skateboard event this
summer. Express the fraction of the registration fee that she has saved as a decimal.

8) Alamo Cola manufactures a soft drink made with 0.25% peach juice concentrate. What is this
percent expressed as a fraction and decimal?

9) Jacob has been helping his mother make strawberry jam.This afternoon they made 3.5
gallons of jam. They are going to store the jam in pint- sized jars. Create a proportion that could
be used to convert 3.5 gallons to pints.

10) Alvin is taking a bus to a ski resort. The bus traveled 174 miles in 3 hours at a constant rate.
Create a proportion that can be used to predict how many hours it will take to travel 696 miles to
the ski resort if the bus continues at the same rate.

11) A local store is selling 6 bottles of glue for $3.78. Use a scale factor to calculate the cost of
42 bottles of glue.

12) A school reporter surveyed a sample of sixth grade girls about their favorite Friday night
activities. Sixty-five percent, or 39 girls, selected going to the movies as their favorite activity.
How many girls did the reporter survey?

13) Cameron has budgeted 19%, or $240 for meals during his full trip. What is the total budget
for the trip?

14) There are 90 dogs and 150 cats at an animal shelter. Of these animals, 9 dogs and 27 cats
receive medication daily. What percentage of the animals in the shelter receive medication
daily?