standard_description: Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.
problem_activity: Task
Nia and Trey both had a sore throat so their mom told them to gargle with warm salt water.
$\hskip30pt$ Nia mixed 1 teaspoon salt with 3 cups water.
$\hskip30pt$ Trey mixed $\frac12$ teaspoon salt with $1 \frac12$ cups of water.
Nia tasted Trey’s salt water. She said,
“I added more salt so I expected that mine would be more salty, but they taste the same.”
Explain why the salt water mixtures taste the same.
Which of the following equations relates $s$, the number of teaspoons of salt, with $w$, the number of cups of water, for both of these mixtures? Choose all that apply.
$s = \frac13 w$
$s = 3w$
$s = 1\frac12 w$
$w = 3s$
$w = \frac13 s$
$w = \frac12 s$


aligns: no