Making Pizzas (Continued)Team K

Making Pizzas (continued)Team K

Making PizzasTeam K

Before You Start

People in the United States eat enough pizza to cover 100 acres every day. Another way to look at this is that people in the United States eat 350 slices of pizza, on average, each second.

Activity

Your local pizza shop is so busy that they had to hire more workers. Congratulations! You just got the job.

1.On your first day, you build pizza boxes. Your boss tells you that, on average, the pizza shop delivers 1,400 pizzas each week. You are to make enough boxes for one day. It takes about 24 seconds to build each box.

a.How many boxes do you need to build?

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b.Will you be able to build all the boxes in one hour? Explain.

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2.Your next task is to divide large bags of toppings into smaller bags that will fill the topping stations.

a.A large bag of pepperoni weighs 180 ounces. Each bag you make needs to have 12 ounces of pepperoni slices. How many bags can
you make?

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b.The mushrooms come in large bags that weigh 320 ounces. Each bag you make will weigh 16 ounces. How many bags can you make?

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3.On your second day, you box the 50 pizzas listed below as they come out of the oven. Write a fraction in simplest form for each type of pizza you boxed that day.

a.8 sausageb.15pepperonic.5deluxe

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d.4mushroome.12cheesef.6onion

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Topping / Small / Large
Mushrooms / cup / cup
Onions / cup / cup
Pepperoni / 16 slices / 32 slices
Sausage / cup / cup

The chart at the right is posted near the pizza-making station.It shows how much of each topping to use on different sizes of pizza.

4.On your third day, your boss asks you to add some new information to the toppings chart. Use the original toppings chart above to help you complete the new chart below.

Size / Mushrooms / Onions / Pepperoni / Sausage
small
large
large

5.Quick ReportUse your results from this activity to complete the report below. Here are the pizza orders:

Order 101 – large with pepperoni, sausage and mushroom, onion

Order 102 – small with sausage, pepperoni and onion

Order / Mushrooms / Onions / Pepperoni / Sausage
101
102

6.ReflectExplain how you used each skill in this activity.

a.simplifying fractions

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b.multiplying fractions

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c.dividing whole numbers

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Working With Playlists (continued)Team G

1.a. 200
b. no; 200 × 24 = 4,800 seconds; 4,800 ÷ 60 = 80 minutes

2.a. 15 b. 20

3.a. b. c. d. e. f.

4.

Size / Mushrooms / Onions / Pepperoni / Sausage
small / cup / cup / 8 slices / cup
large / cup / cup / 8 slices / cup
large / cup / cup / 16 slices / cup

5.

Order / Mushrooms / Onions / Pepperoni / Sausage
101 / cup / cup / 32 slices / cup
102 / none / cup / 8 slices / cup

6.Answers may vary. Sample answers are given.

a.I simplified fractions when I wrote fractions in simplest form of each type of pizza I boxed.

b.I multiplied fractions when I found the exact amounts to use for partial toppings.

c.I divided whole numbers when I found the number of boxes I needed to make in a day and when I decided if I could make all the boxes in 1 hour. I also divided whole numbers when I determined the number of smaller bags I would make from a large bag of toppings.

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