Question

Devorah owns a bakery. To make a certain shade of green butter cream icing, Devorah uses
drops of yellow food coloring for each drop of blue food coloring. She writes down the equation
to represent the relationship.

Complete the table below to represent this relationship.

Green Icing Drops of Blue Food Coloring 1 2 3
5
Drops of Yellow Food Coloring
6
12

Answer 1

If Devorah uses 6 drops of yellow for each 1 drop of blue, the equation is
Yellow = 6 × Blue (or y = 6x).

Completing the table:
- Blue 1 → Yellow 6
- Blue 2 → Yellow 12
- Blue 3 → Yellow 18
- Blue 5 → Yellow 30