Question

If you blend 2 scoops of chocolate ice cream with 1 cup of milk, you get a milkshake with a stronger chocolate flavor than if you blended 3 scoops of chocolate ice cream with 2 cups of milk. Explain or show why.

Answer 1

This is less chocolate ice cream per cup of milk than in the first mixture (2 scoops of chocolate ice cream per cup of milk), so the first mixture has stronger chocolate flavor. 2 scoops of chocolate ice cream with 1 cup of milk will taste the same as 4 scoops of chocolate ice cream with 2 cups of milk.

Explanation:

Answer 2

If you did 3 scoops of ice-cream and 2 cups of milk you would have 2times the amount of milk and only 1 1/2 times the amount of ice-cream then if you did 1 cup of milk and 2 scoops of ice-cream.

Explanation:

To solve this question, we will have to use the aspect of mathematics that is referred to as rates or proportions.

In the first mix, what we have is that we are going to mix 2 scoops of chocolate ice cream with 1 cup of milk. What is noticeable here is that we have 2 scoops of chocolate per 1 cup of milk or there is a 2 to 1 ratio of chocolate ice cream to cup of milk.

Now in the second mix, we are mixing 3 scoops of chocolate with 2 scoops of milk. What we have here is a ratio of 3 to 2. This means that we are having a ratio of 1.5 to 1 of the number of scoops of chocolate ice cream to number of cups of milk.

Looking at this, we can deduce that a 2 to 1 ratio is a greater value compared to a 1.5 to 1 ratio. This is the reason why we are having a stronger chocolate flavor in the first mix than the chocolate flavor in the second mix