Brandon came home from school and informed his mother that he had volunteered to make cookies
for his entire grade level. he needs 3 cookies for each of the 96 students in seventh grade.
unfortunately, he needs the cookies the very next day! brandon and his mother determined that they
can fit 36 cookies on two cookie sheets,
a. is the number of cookies proportional to the number of cookie sheets used in baking? create a
table that shows data for the number of sheets needed for the total number of cookies baked,
b. the unit rate of
is
constant of proportionality is:
explain the meaning of the constant of proportionality in this problem:
c.
it takes 2 hours to bake 8 sheets of cookies, if brandon and his mother begin baking at 4: 00
p. m., when will they finish baking the cookies?