Mallie's Sports Grill, a Michigan restaurant recently made a 360 pound burger in an effort to set the world record to make the largest burger ever made. It looks delicious. Here are the details: It takes 20 hours to bake 270 pounds of meat and it takes 8 hours to cool in a freezer. The meat cooks down to a 180 pound patty because it looses ⅓ of the original meat weight.
Question 4 - First, I knew that proportional relationships have to be related by multiplication or division. I knew that 360, the weight of the burger divided by six is sixty, which is the weight of the toppings (that’s ⅙), so I divided thirty, the total weight of one of the burgers, because I needed to find what the combined weight of toppings for the 30 pound burger is, and the combined weight of toppings is always ⅙ the amount of the total weight of the burger. I then divided 5 by 3, because 20, the weight of the cheese in the 360 pound burger is ⅓ the amount of toppings, so, because it's a proportional relationship I had to divide 5 by 3, to get the amount of cheese. I continued this way until I found all parts of the burger.
Question 5- I had to divide 360 by ⅔ because I knew that the I needed to find what a ⅔ burger would weigh compared to a 360 pound burger. I divided 360 by ⅔ by using the reciprocal, because it's the best way. I made 360 into 360/1 because when multiplying, you multiply straight across. I multiplied because by changing ⅔ to 3/2 , and that way, I could multiply 360/1 by 3/2, and the product would be the same as the quotient. I found out that 540 people could eat the 360 pound burger, if each person had ⅔.
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