The holiday dinner is at the Milton’s house
this year. Mrs. Milton will do most of the
cooking.
5. Cooking time for a turkey is determined
using the rate of
1/3 hour per pound. Mrs.
Milton figures she will have at most four
hours to cook the turkey. What is the
largest turkey she should buy?
6. Mrs. Milton will make 6 pounds of yams.
If one person eats �
1
2
1/2 pound of yams, how
many people can Mrs. Milton serve with
6 pounds of yams?
5. Cooking time for a turkey is determined using the rate of 1/3 hour per pound. Mrs. Milton figures she will have at most four hours to cook the turkey. What is the largest turkey she should buy?
6. Mrs. Milton will make 6 pounds of yams. If one person eats 1/2 pound of yams, how many people can Mrs. Milton serve with 6 pounds of yams?
(I hope this is easier to read!) Please Help!
Right now the most I got is this:
1/3 = 0.33
Since she has 4 hours to cook it per pound then I did: .33 x 4 = 1.32.
So would the largest turkey she can buy be 1.32 pounds?
No.
At 1/3 hour per pound, it's 3 pounds per hour. 3 * 4 = 12 pounds
6 / (1/2) = 6 * (2/1) = 12 people
Ah I see. How would you put those into a mathamatical (algebraic) expression?
To solve these problems, we need to use basic arithmetic operations and reasoning skills.
Let's start with problem 5:
Mrs. Milton has a maximum of 4 hours to cook the turkey. The cooking time for a turkey is determined using the rate of 1/3 hour per pound. So, we can set up the following equation:
Cooking time = (Weight of turkey) x (Rate of cooking time per pound)
Since the cooking time should be less than or equal to 4 hours, we can write the inequality:
(Weight of turkey) x (1/3) ≤ 4
To find the largest turkey Mrs. Milton can buy, we need to solve this inequality for the weight of the turkey:
(Weight of turkey) ≤ 4 / (1/3)
To simplify the right-hand side of the inequality, we divide 4 by 1/3:
(Weight of turkey) ≤ 4 x (3/1) = 12
So, the largest turkey Mrs. Milton should buy is 12 pounds.
Moving on to problem 6:
Mrs. Milton has 6 pounds of yams. If each person eats 1/2 pound of yams, we can find out how many people can be served by dividing the total weight of yams by the amount consumed per person.
Number of people served = (Total weight of yams) / (Amount eaten per person)
Number of people served = 6 / (1/2)
To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal:
Number of people served = 6 x (2/1) = 12
So, Mrs. Milton can serve 12 people with 6 pounds of yams.