Question

Students are making lemonade from a p

owdered lemon drink mix. Rahul mixes 14 cups of water and 5 cups of powdered lemon mix. Aisha mixes 11 cups of water and 4 cups of powdered lemon mix. Use Rahul and Aisha’s percent of powdered lemon mix to determine whose mix will be more lemony.

Answer 1

Answer: Ariana uses 85% drink mix, and Andres uses 90% drink mix. Therefore, Andres's drink will taste more lemony.

Explanation:

Ariana uses 17 cups of mix out of the 20 total cups which is 85%

Andres uses 10 cups of mix out of the 11 total cups which is around 90%

Explanation:

Answer 2

Aisha mix will be more lemony

Explanation:

Find Rahul's percentage of the powdered lemon mix by

Finding the total number of cups

14 + 5 = 19 total cups

Then take

5 divided by 19, times 100% = 26.3%

Find Aisha's percentage of the powdered lemon mix by

Finding the total number of cups

11 + 4 = 15 total cups

Then take

4 divided by 15, times 100% = 26.6% or 27%