Students are making lemonade from a powdered lemon drink mix. Rashaad mixes 4 cups of water and 3 cups of powdered lemon mix. Mav mixes 5 cups of water and 4 cups of powdered lemon mix. Use Rashaad and Mav’s proportions of water to determine whose mix will be more watery.

Answer 1

To determine whose mix will be more watery, we need to compare the ratio of water to powdered lemon mix for each student.

Rashaad's mix:
Water: 4 cups
Powdered lemon mix: 3 cups

Mav's mix:
Water: 5 cups
Powdered lemon mix: 4 cups

Rashaad's ratio of water to powdered lemon mix is 4:3, which simplifies to 4/3 or approximately 1.33.

Mav's ratio of water to powdered lemon mix is 5:4, which simplifies to 5/4 or 1.25.

Therefore, Rashaad's mix is more watery than Mav's mix.