Running a Bakery(continued)Team G
Running a BakeryTeamG
Before You Start
The work at your bakery begins long before the sun rises. The pastries, bagels, and breads need to be ready when customers stop in on their way to work and school. After the morning rush, the rest of the day is spent baking desserts and special-occasion cakes.
Activity
Each morning, your bakery makes 32 coffee cakes. Each coffee cake serves 14 people.
1.Each coffee cake needs 1 cups of whole grain flour and 1 cups of sugar in the mix. How much flour is used to make coffee cakes each morning? How much sugar is used to make the daily coffee cakes?
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2.You top the coffee cakes with 1 cups of chopped pecans. How many cups of pecans are in each serving of coffee cake? How many cups of pecan topping are needed to make the coffee cakes each morning?
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You need to make 8 birthday cakes and 1 wedding cake before closing.
3.Your birthday cake recipe uses 1 cups of flour and 1cups of sugar. How much flour do you need for the cakes? How much sugar?
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4.The bottom tier of a wedding cake requires 5 times the flour and sugar as one birthday cake. The top tier of the wedding cake requires 2times the flour and sugar as one birthday cake.How much flour and sugar are needed to make one wedding cake?
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Your bakery’s trademark is the icing flowers you use as a border around your cakes. You have a border of small flowers around the top of the cake and a border of large flowers around the bottom of the cake.
5.Complete the table below to show the number of flowers on each type of cake. Use the diagram above to help you.
Birthday Cake / Bottom Tier of Wedding Cake / Top Tier of Wedding CakeDimensions of cake / 7 in.-by-5 in. / 12 in.-by-25 in. / 5 in.-by-8 in.
Number of small flowers
Number of large flowers
Total number of flowers on 1 cake
6.How many frosting flowers do you have to make for the 8 birthday cakes?
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7.Quick ReportUse your results from this activity to complete the table.
32 Coffee Cakes / 8 Birthday Cakes / 1 Wedding CakeFlour / ____ c / ____ c / ____ c
Sugar / ____ c / ____ c / ____ c
Topping / ____ c of pecans / ____ flowers / ____ flowers
8.ReflectExplain how you used each skill in this activity.
a.multiplying fractions
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b.dividing by fractions
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Running a Bakery(continued)Team G
1.53 cups; 40 cups
2.; 56
3.14 cups; 10 cups
4.a. 13 cups of flour and 10 cups of sugar
5.
Birthday Cake / Bottom Tier of Wedding Cake / Top Tier of Wedding CakeDimensions of cake / 7 in.-by-5 in. / 12 in.-by-25 in. / 5 in.-by-8 in.
Number of small flowers / 49 / 149 / 55
Number of large flowers / 33 / 99 / 36
Total number of flowers on 1 cake / 82 / 340
6.660
7.
32 Coffee Cakes / 8 Birthday Cakes / 1 Wedding CakeFlour / 53c / 14 c / 13c
Sugar / 40c / 10c / 10c
Topping / 56c of pecans / 660 flowers / 340 flowers
8.Answers may vary. Sample answers are given.
a.I multiplied fractions to find the amount of flour, sugar, and pecans needed for the coffee cake. I also multiplied fractions to find the amount of flour and sugar used in the birthday and wedding cakes.
b.I divided by fractions when finding the number of flowers in the borders of the two different sizes of cake.
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