standard_description: Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
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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| Tablespoons | 16 |   |   |   |   |   |   |
|-------------|----|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|    Cups     | 1  |   |   |   |   |   |   |


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