Week 9 CMT Problem - 7th Grade


Fruit Punch

A recipe for fruit punch calls for the following ingredients:

Orange juice 4 cups
Lemon juice ½ cup
Club Soda 3 cups
Serves 6

The chart below shows the ingredients you have in your kitchen. It also shows how you can purchase these ingredients, and their cost.

What you have How it’s sold and what it costs
Orange juice ½ gallon Orange juice $3.95/gallon
Lemon juice 1 ½ quarts Lemon juice $1.25/pint
Club Soda 1 gallon Club Soda $1.00/2 quarts


You know that there are:
2 cups in 1 pint
2 pints in 1 quart
4 quarts in one gallon


In order to make enough fruit punch for 60 people, how much of each ingredient will you need to buy and how much will these ingredients cost? Complete the table below to show your answers and show how you arrived at your answers in the space below the table.

Ingredient How much do you need to buy? What will this cost?
Orange juice   
Lemon juice   
Club Soda   


Total Cost: __________

Show your work here: