Everyday Math Skills Workbooks series - Kitchen Math

Kitchen Math Workbook
Using Measurement in the Kitchen
Using Measurement in the Kitchen
7. Tina uses a ¼ cup of brown sugar and a ¾ cup of white sugar. How much
sugar does she use? ____________________
8. Dora combines 2 ¼ cups of flour with 2 cups of oats. How many
cups is that? _______________
9. Joe mixes 1 ¼ cups of rotini with 1 ¼ cups of elbow pasta. How many cups in
all? __________________
10. Louise combines ¾ cup of wild rice and 1 ¼ cups of white rice. How
much rice does she have altogether? _______________
11. Anne combines ⅔ cup of white pasta and 1 ⅓ cups of whole wheat pasta.
How much pasta does she have altogether? __________________
12. A recipe calls for 2 ½ cups of flour. Susie would like to double the recipe.
How much flour does Susie need? _____________________
13. Lori combines 1 ½ cups of macaroni and 1 ¾ cups of elbow macaroni to the
pot. How much does she have altogether? __________________ If the ratio for
cooking pasta is 1 cup of dry pasta to 2 cups of cooked, how much pasta will
she have when it is cooked? ______________________
14. Gayle combines 1 ⅓ cups of white rice with 1 ⅓ cups of brown rice. How
much rice is she going to cook? __________________ If the ratio is 1 cup of
uncooked rice to 3 cups of cooked rice, how much rice will she have when it is
cooked? _______________________
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