Everyday Math Skills Workbooks series - Kitchen Math

Part 1: Make the fractions equivalent.
1. 1 = ?
2 8
4. 1 = 2
5 ?
Kitchen Math Workbook
Using Measurement in the Kitchen
Using Measurement in the Kitchen
2. 3 = ?
4 8
3. 2 = ?
1 3
5. 3 = ? 6. 3 = ?
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2 8
Part 2: Figure out the answers to these before-and-after questions.
7. If you squeeze 2 oranges, you will get 1 cup of juice. You want to
make 6 cups for your Sunday breakfast with the family. How many
oranges will you need to squeeze? ___________________
8. Two slices of bread will make 1 cup of bread crumbs. You want 3
cups of crumbs for your stuffing, how many slices of bread will you
need? _________________
9. One cup of uncooked rice will make 3 cups of cooked rice. ½ cup of
cooked rice is one serving. You need to make 12 servings of rice.
How much uncooked rice will you need? ___________________
10. The ratio for cooking rice is 1 cup of rice to 2 cups of water. If you cooked 3
cups of rice, how much water will you need? ________________
11. For every cup of dry pasta that you cook, you need ½ L of water. If you
cooked 4 cups of dry pasta, how much water would you need to boil?
___________________
12. Lisa bought some frozen cookie dough in a big container. The
instructions say that 1 cup of cookie dough will make 8 cookies.
She needs to make 48 cookies. How much cookie dough will she
need to thaw? ________________
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