Joleen is baking strawberry cupcakes for a group of her friends at school. She knows to make 4 cupcakes she is going to need 2 ½
pounds of strawberries. How many pounds of strawberries will she need to buy in order to make 8 of her friends cupcakes? Explain how you got your answer.
To this mixture we're adding ounces of water, so that the new mix has a total volume of ounces and matches the composition of the coffee Lily likes. This means it would consist of
ounces of water
ounces of cocoa (same amount of cocoa as before because pure water is being added)
Solve for :
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Just to confirm: the new mixture consists of
ounces of water
ounces of cocoa
giving a total volume of ounces of coffee, and , as required.