Question

A) What are the amounts of the ingredients you need to make just one waffle?

B) Suppose you wanted to make one waffle for you and your three friends. What quantities of ingredients would you need?

C) You are the chef that is organizing the food for the annual Waffle Fest. You have to prepare enough waffles so that 250 people can each have one. What amounts of ingredients will you need?


D) If it takes two minutes to cook a waffle, how many waffle irons will you need to make all the waffles in one hour?


E) Each server can deliver eight waffles at a time. It takes each server 10 minutes per trip. How many servers will you need to deliver all 250 waffles in one hour? How many trips will they have to make all together?

Answer 1

To calculate the ingredient amounts for one waffle, divide the amounts in the pancake recipe by the number of pancakes usually made. For larger quantities, scale up proportionately. You would need approximately 9 waffle irons to make all waffles in an hour, and about 6 servers, making 30 trips in total, to serve all 250 waffles within an hour.

Step-by-step explanation:

Calculating Ingredients for Waffles

To calculate the amount of ingredients for a single waffle, we would need to divide the original recipe amounts by the number of waffles or pancakes the recipe typically makes.

However, based on the information, which is mostly related to making pancakes, not waffles, we do not have a specific recipe for a single waffle.

To provide a hypothetical answer, if we take the pancake recipe that calls for 2 cups of pancake mix, 1 egg, and 1/2 cup of milk to make a batch we can use the stoichiometric relationships to find the amounts for one pancake and then adjust for one waffle if the amount is similar.

If we assume a similar ratio for waffles to pancakes, for one waffle (approximating from one pancake based on the given recipe), you might need approximately 1/4 cup of pancake mix, 1/4 of an egg, and 1/8 cup of milk.

We can assume that the recipe scales linearly, so for four waffles (you and three friends), you would multiply these amounts by four.

For 250 people, you would multiply the single serving amounts by 250.

Regarding the number of waffle irons needed to make all the waffles in one hour, if it takes two minutes to cook a waffle, you would need enough waffle irons to make the total number of waffles in 60 minutes.

Given that there's a total of 250 waffles to be made, one waffle iron can make 30 waffles in one hour (60 minutes divided by 2 minutes).

Therefore, you would need approximately 8.33, which rounds up to 9 waffle irons to make all 250 waffles in one hour.

For the servers, each can carry 8 waffles and takes 10 minutes per trip.

There are 31.25 trips required in total (250 waffles divided by 8 waffles per trip). If each server can make 6 trips in an hour (60 minutes divided by 10 minutes per trip), you would need approximately 5.21 servers, which rounds up to 6 servers, to deliver all the waffles in one hour.

Each server will have to make at least 5 trips each, totaling 30 trips all together (6 servers multiplied by 5 trips each).

Answer 2

A) 1 waffle: 1 cup flour, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 3/4 cup buttermilk, 1/4 cup melted butter, 1 egg.

B) For 4 waffles, multiply the quantities by 4.

C) Waffle Fest for 250 people: 250 cups flour, 250 tbsp sugar, 250 tsp baking powder, 125 tsp baking soda, 187.5 cups buttermilk, 62.5 cups melted butter, 250 eggs.

D) 30 waffle irons needed to make all waffles in 1 hour (2 mins per waffle).

E) To deliver 250 waffles in 1 hour, use 4 servers making 6 trips in total (8 waffles per trip in 10 minutes).

Step-by-step explanation:

A) For one waffle, you'll need a standard mix of ingredients. For four waffles, you simply multiply each ingredient by four.

C) To prepare 250 waffles for the Waffle Fest, multiply the quantities by 250. This ensures you have enough for each person. Be mindful of the ratios to maintain the recipe's integrity.

D) If it takes 2 minutes to cook one waffle and you have 60 minutes, you'll need 30 waffle irons. The calculation is straightforward, dividing the total time available by the time it takes to cook one waffle.

E) If each server delivers 8 waffles in 10 minutes, you divide the total number of waffles by 8 to find the number of servers needed. In this case, 4 servers are required. They'll make 6 trips in total, dividing the total time by the time it takes for one trip.