Sauces, jams and preserves

Sauces, jams and preserves

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This autumn Mrs Long filled the cupboard with sauces, jams, and preserves.
 
a) Mrs Long makes 4 jars of jam from each 1 kg of fruit. If she made 3 kg of fruit into jam, how many jars of jam did she make altogether?
 
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: __________
 
b) She makes 5 bottles of sauce from each 1 kg of fruit. If she made 2 kg of fruit into sauce, how many bottles of sauce did she make altogether?
 
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: __________
 
c) Mrs Long preserved 2 jars of fruit from each 1 kg of fruit. How many jars of fruit did Mrs Long preserve from 10 kg of fruit?
 
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: __________
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
4
Keywords: 
Description of task: 
Students calculate the number of containers needed for given amounts of fruit for a recipe.
Curriculum Links: 

This resource can help to identify students' ability to apply multiplicative strategies flexibly to whole numbers in simple rate problems.

Key competencies
This resource involves recording the strategies students use to solve rate problems involving multiplication. This relates to the Key Competency: Using language, symbols and text.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
  Y9 (06/1996)
a) 12 very easy
b) 10 very easy
c) 20 very easy