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Haley and her teammates are making lemonade. They make a sugar water solution by
dissolving sugar into hot water. In another container they squeeze lemons to form pure
lemon juice. They mix the two liquids together according to the following recipes:
I! 10% lemon
Mild
luice,
Regular
15% Lemon juice,
85% sugar water
1 90% sugar water
Super sour
20% lemon juice,
80% sugar water
1. If the team wants to make 10 quarts of each type of lemonade, how many quarts of
Lemon juice do they need for each recipe?
Mild:
Regular:
Super sour:
2. The team wants to make 20 cups of mild lemonade. How much of each ingredient should
they put in?
3. The team wants to make 15 cups of sour lemonade. How much of each ingredient should
they put in?
4. The team wants to make 15 cups of regular lemonade. How much of each ingredient
should they put in?
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5. The team has made 10 cups of super sour lemonade, but what they realty want is 30 cups
of mild temonade. How many cups of lemon juice and/or sugar water should they add to
make 30 cups of mild lemonade?
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6. For this mixture, 75% of the lemonade is sugar water. Complete this puzzle to determine
the number of cups of lemon juice, the percent of lemonade that is lemon juice, and the
cups of sugar water.
Lemon Juice
Sugar Water
+
___~cups
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Lemon juice
Lemonade
25 cups
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Icups
75% Sugar water
7. REINFORcE If you want to make 15 quarts of regular lemonade, how many quarts of
Lemon juice do you need?
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8. REINFORcE You mix 13-i cups of sugar water and 1
cups of lemon juice. Which of the
three recipes have you made?
9. REINFORCE You have 50 cups of mild lemonade. About how many cups of lemon juice do
you need to add to make the lemonade super sour?
10. REINFORCE You want to make mild lemonade but have only 1 cup of lemon juice. What is
the greatest amount of mild lemonade you can make?
11. REINFORCE You are asked to make 20 cups of each type of lemonade. Complete the
table to identify the number of cups of sugar water and lemon juice you need for each.
Recipe
Sugar water
Lemon juice
Mild
Regular
Super Sour
What patterns do you notice in the table?
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12. REINFORCE Mark is testing the precision of his postal scale. He places a 2-gram weight on
the scale and it registers 1.65 grams. What is the percent error of the scale?
Vanessa’s total sales
=
$321.50
13. How much do the girls owe the school in concession fees from Vanessa’s total sales?
14. How much will Vanessa make in commissions from her total saLes?
15. How much profit will the team make from Vanessa’s total sales?
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16.The profit from Haley’s register was $181.87. What is the total profit from the two
registers after the commissions and concession fees have been paid?
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17. You calculated the fees and commissions for each girt individually, and then added to
find the totaL profits. Can you get the same answer by adding all the sates, then finding
the fees, commissions and profits?
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18. After three games, total sales from lemonade is $1206.00. The new uniforms Cost $1000.
Can the girls buy the uniforms now?
19.The girls received $250 in tips. If the total sales from the lemonade after three games
was $1206.00, what percent of sales were they given in tips?
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20. REINFoRCE Marco paid $25.00 for a meat, including a 25% tip. How much was the meat
before he added the tip?
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