Using Proportionality to Find Missing Values

Using Proportionality to Find Missing Values
Introduction

Proportional relationships allow us to find unknown values when some information is given. Using proportionality, missing quantities can be determined while keeping the ratio b...

You’re filling water bottles for a team practice. You know that 4 bottles take 6 cups of water.

If you want to fill 8 bottles, how many cups of water will you need?

Because each bottle holds the same amount of water, the relationship between bottles and cups is proportional.

Since you do not know the number of cups needed to fi...