Students are making lemonade from a powdered lemon drink mix. Rashaad mixes 4 cups of water and 3 cups of powdered lemon mix. Mav mixes 5 cups of water and 4 cups of powdered lemon mix. Use Rashaad and Mav’s proportions of water to determine whose mix will be more watery.
To determine whose mix will be more watery, we need to compare the ratio of water to powdered lemon mix for each student.
Rashaad's mix:
Water: 4 cups
Powdered lemon mix: 3 cups
Mav's mix:
Water: 5 cups
Powdered lemon mix: 4 cups
Rashaad's ratio of water to powdered lemon mix is 4:3, which simplifies to 4/3 or approximately 1.33.
Mav's ratio of water to powdered lemon mix is 5:4, which simplifies to 5/4 or 1.25.
Therefore, Rashaad's mix is more watery than Mav's mix.