Recipies Using Direct Proportion
Published by Hollie November 29th, 2006 in scribepostsIn todays lesson, we continued direct proporion
Example:
6 bags of bowling balls weigh 15 kg. How many bowling balls would weigh 35 kg?
We find out how much one bag weighs by a simple division: 6/15=0.4
We lay this out in a table: Weight (kg) Bowling Bags
15 6
1 6/15=0.4
35 35*0.4=14
We then moved on to Recipes
Example: A Sponge Cake Recipe for 6 people
6 medium eggs
340g self raising flour
340g butter
340g caster sugar
How much ingredients would be needed for 9 people?
We can work this out by doing the following:
Eggs: 6/6*9=9g
Self raising flour: 340/6*9=510g
Butter 340/6*9=510g
Caster sugar: 340/6*9=510g
All you need to do is divide the amount of ingredients but the amount of people it serves, then you times it by the number of people you would like to change it too!
I chose Katie as the next person
I like the detail of your scribe post. Does your blog allow you to change the colour of your font? If it does it would be a good idea to change the colour of you question and of your answer.
Thanks for scribing.
Hey hollie !
Good scibe post!! Thanks for picking me next !
Hi! Good effort! Maybe you can inquire with your teacher if adding images and such is possible on your blog. Don’t you think it’d be “cool” if you can actually see the problem you’re trying to solve? It’s excellent as it is, but there’s aLwaYs room for improvement =). Thanks so much for teaching me something new today! Nice work.
Hi Christian - thanks for dropping by and commenting
Adding images is definitely possible. We’ll look at that next week. Adding font colours is not so easy - the editor in wordpress doesn’t have a button to change font colour, so we would have to get into doing html tags by hand. I’ll do some more head scratching and see if I can come up with a solution.
Nice scribe post.
hey hollie! great scribe! lots of veeeery useful information!! thinking that i understand using direct proportion with recipes!!
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