Mashed potatoes recipe ingredients:
1 ½ lbs. potatoes
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup heavy cream
1/8 cup butter
1/16 cup milk
serves 4 people
1) you plan to feed more than 4 people for . fill in the chart with fractions:
number of servings 8 10 12 32
pounds of potatoes
teaspoons salt
cups of heavy cream
cups of butter
cups of milk

2) sariah used this recipe to make mashed potatoes for dinner. she used 7.5 pounds of potatoes. how many people will her mashed potatoes serve?

3) sariah bought the milk and cream that she needed for $10, and the sales tax was 9%. how much tax will sariah have to pay?

4) in another store, sariah bought the potatoes and butter. the total was $15, but she ended up paying $16.05. what percent tax did she pay for these items?

5) sariah also picked up a large bag of cranberries. the bag was marked down from $2.60 to $2.08. what is the discount, as a percentage?