standard_description: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.
problem_activity: Task
Malik is using a cookbook to make a recipe, but he can not find his measuring cups! He has, however, found a tablespoon. Inside the back cover of the cookbook, it says that 1 cup = 16 tablespoons.
Explain how he could use the tablespoon to measure out the following ingredients:
2 cups of flour
½ cup sunflower seeds
1¼ cup of oatmeal
Malik also adds the following ingredients. How many cups of each did he add?
28 tablespoons of sugar
6 tablespoons of cocoa powder
Use of the following representations is optional:
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