Our ingrediants tell us an amount of Cups that we need:

• 1 cup ham drippings see Notes

• ¼ cup butter

• ¼ cup all purpose flour

• 1 cup whole milk

  When we are done though we will need something to put it in Most prefer a Gravy boat which is sold by sizes in ounces. when looking up the amount of ounces in 1 cup we get 8 what do we do to the 2.5 cups to find out how many ounces it will make.

In cooking this is known as a unit conversion, Cooking isn't the only job that might need you to convert to different units.

Mechanics, Architects, Carpenters, Scientists, Meteoroligists, and many more have to do these conversions but the best part is its the same type of math that we use in Dilations, similarity, and when we work with equations. Slope is just a ratio of the amount the drawing goes up or down for each change of 1 in x. 1 cup is 8 ounces we could make a linear function to represent it:

y = 8x

What are some other names we have used for this process (choose all that you remember)

In our situation our 2.5 cups when converted into ouces

requires us to use the conversion ratio of 1 cup to 8 ounces how many ounces will the Gravy boat need to hold ?

Which of the following would allow you to get the correct amount of ounces for 2 gravy boats that size ?

(more than one could be correct)

Figure out how many total cups of ingredients you would need to only fill a 12 ounce gravy boat ?

(remember the original 2.5 cups came to 20 ounces)