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This flower is made up of yellow hexagons, red trapezoids, and green triangles.
Here are diagrams representing three mixtures of powdered drink mix and water:
Use the diagrams to complete each statement:
Mixture B uses cups of water and teaspoons of drink mix.
The ratio of cups of water to teaspoons of drink mix in Mixture B is .
Mixture C uses cups of water and teaspoons of drink mix.
The ratio of cups of water to teaspoons of drink mix in Mixture C is .
A recipe for fizzy juice says, “Mix 5 cups of cranberry juice with 2 cups of soda water.”
To double this recipe, we would use 10 cups of cranberry juice with 4 cups of soda water. To triple this recipe, we would use 15 cups of cranberry juice with 6 cups of soda water.
This diagram shows a single batch of the recipe, a double batch, and a triple batch:
We say that the ratios , , and are equivalent. Even though the amounts of each ingredient within a single, double, or triple batch are not the same, they would make fizzy juice that tastes the same.
When mixing colors, doubling or tripling the amount of each color will create the same shade of the mixed color. In fact, you can always multiply the amount of each color by the same number to create a different amount of the same mixed color.
For example, a batch of dark orange paint uses 4 ml of red paint and 2 ml of yellow paint.
Here is a diagram that represents 1, 2, and 3 batches of this recipe.
We say that the ratios , , and are equivalent because they describe the same color mixture in different numbers of batches, and they make the same shade of orange.