A dessert is made up of 6 ounces of fudge cake and 4 ounces of ice cream. Marcus prefers ice cream to fudge cake in a 5-to-2 ratio. Suppose that Marcus will use points to assign value to portions of the dessert.
a. How many points might Marcus assign to each ounce of ice cream?
b. How many points might Marcus assign to each ounce of fudge cake?
c. What is the total point value Marcus would assign to the dessert?
d. Describe two different divisions of the dessert that Marcus would consider to be fair.
e. Marcus’ friend Max prefers fudge cake to ice cream in a 3-to-1 ratio. For each of the divisions from part (d), decide which portion Max would select and why.
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