Question

Jada's favorite movie mix is made up of a 1 bag of popcorn, 3.5 cups of pretzels and 2.75 cups of M&M's. She needs to make enough of her favorite movie mix to share with a group of friends that are coming over for a party. In order to have enough mix to last for the entire movie, Jada decided that she needs to pop 12 bags of popcorn. How many cups of pretzels will she need to have enough for her favorite cups of pretzels movie mix? 1 How many cups of M&M's? cups of M&M's . What is the constant of proportionality used in this situation?

Answer 1

Let's determine how many mixes Jada can make with the 12 bags of popcorn. Since one mix requires one bag of popcorn, Jada will be able to make 12 mixes.

Next, we'll find out how many cups of pretzels Jada will need to make these 12 mixes. Given that one mix requires 3.5 cups of pretzels, we multiply the number of mixes (which is 12) by the amount of pretzels per mix (3.5). Therefore, Jada will need 42 cups of pretzels.

Similarly, to find out how many cups of M&M's Jada will need for her 12 mixes, we multiply 12 by the amount of M&M's per mix, which is 2.75. As a result, Jada will need 33 cups of M&M's.

The constant of proportionality in this situation reflects the amount of each ingredient required per bag of popcorn. The constant is (3.5, 2.75), representing 3.5 cups of pretzels and 2.75 cups of M&M's for every one bag of popcorn.