1.A recipe for brownies calls for 2 cups of oil and 3 cups of sugar. How many cups of oil are used for 1 cup of sugar? * 2.Jack ran 3/5 of a mile in 1/10 of an hour. How many miles per hour can he run at his current rate? *
3.Marcy is having a pool party and wants to make four gallons of punch. The punch consists of juice and soda pop. The recipe calls for three gallons of soda pop. What fraction of the total punch will be made up of juice? *
4.Marisa measures the deck on the outside of the house and makes a scale drawing with a scale of 1 cm:6 m. The actual deck is 18 m long. How long is it in the drawing? *
5.A six-foot-tall person is standing next to a flagpole. The person is casting a shadow 1.5 feet in length, while the flagpole is casting a shadow 5 feet in length. How tall is the flagpole? *
6.Sammy’s mother asked him to buy some aspirin at the supermarket. There were two different sizes of aspirin bottles, and Sammy was not sure which one to buy. The bottle with 150 tablets cost $7.50. The bottle with 50 tablets cost $3.00. Which bottle is the better buy? Show your work on a separate piece of paper. *