Question

Cindy dissolves 19 1 /4 grams of drink mix in 1 3 /4 ounces of water. What is the unit rate in grams of drink mix per ounce of water?

Answer 1

Answer:

There are 11 g of drink mix for every ounce of water.

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to calculate the unit rate in grams of drink mix for ounces of water of any type of drink, we need to divide the mass of drink mix in grams by the mass of water in ounces. In this case there are mixed fractions, we will first convert them to fractions, to do that we sum the fraction part with the integer one.

$mix = 19 + \frac{1}{4}\\\\mix = \frac{77}{4}$

$water = 1 + \frac{3}{4}\\\\water = \frac{7}{4}$

The rate is:

$rate = \frac{mix}{water}\\\\rate = \frac{\frac{77}{4}}{\frac{7}{4}}\\\\rate = \frac{77}{7}\\\\rate = 11$

There are 11 g of drink mix for every ounce of water.