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Model: 2 Cups Water 4 Eggs 4 Cups Sugar 8 Oz Butter 4 Cups Flour 8 Squares Chocolate

The document discusses a cake recipe and the ingredients required. It asks questions about which ingredients are needed according to the recipe, which ingredients would be leftover or used up, and which ingredient limits how much cake can be made.

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Model: 2 Cups Water 4 Eggs 4 Cups Sugar 8 Oz Butter 4 Cups Flour 8 Squares Chocolate

The document discusses a cake recipe and the ingredients required. It asks questions about which ingredients are needed according to the recipe, which ingredients would be leftover or used up, and which ingredient limits how much cake can be made.

Uploaded by

Nikki Douglass
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© © All Rights Reserved
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Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
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Limiting Agents

Model
A cake recipe calls for:

2 cups water 4 eggs

4 cups sugar 8 oz butter

4 cups flour 8 squares chocolate

Ingredients on hand:

6 eggs
lots of water

4 cups sugar 16 oz butter

5 cups flour 12 squares of chocolate

Key Questions
1. According to the model, how much of each ingredient is necessary to make a
cake?

Water Flour Chocolate Sugar Butter Eggs

2. If you follow the recipe, using only the ingredients on hand in the model, how
much of each ingredient will be left over after you have prepared the cake?

Water Flour Chocolate Sugar Butter Eggs

. © POGIL 2005, 2006 2/5


Modified by Erin Graham, Lizabeth Tumminello and Rohini Quackenbush; Revised by Erin Graham and Lori Giloni
Edited by Linda Padwa and David Hanson, Stony Brook University
Limiting Agents

3. Which ingredients on hand were in excess of the quantities required for the
recipe?

4. Which ingredient on hand was completely consumed when making the cake?

5. Which ingredient limits or prevents you from making a larger cake?

6. If only two eggs are available when a cake is being made, fill in the chart to
indicate the quantity of each of the other ingredients will be used in order to
maintain the same ratio between all of the components in the cake.

Water Flour Chocolate Sugar Butter Eggs

7. If the cake is made with the ingredients as shown in question 6, how will the size
of the cake compare to the cake made with the ingredients shown in question 1?

8. Based on information presented in the model, what is meant by the term


limiting reactant (ingredient or reagent)?

. © POGIL 2005, 2006 3/5


Modified by Erin Graham, Lizabeth Tumminello and Rohini Quackenbush; Revised by Erin Graham and Lori Giloni
Edited by Linda Padwa and David Hanson, Stony Brook University

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