Math story problem - meatball edition

Answers below. Note the answers in later questions may depend on the answers to earlier questions. Show your work and you may receive partial credit.

Your recipe calls for 1 1/2 pounds of ground beef plus various other ingredients to yield sixteen meatballs. Factoring in the other ingredients, each meatball, uncooked, should approach two ounces in weight.

The recipe was exactly doubled. Really. All ingredients were measured. The math on the doubling was correct, as was the measuring. (what, you don't trust me?)

1. Using a 2 ounce scoop, how many meatballs should the doubled recipe yield?

2. Using a 2 ounce scoop, how many meatballs did the recipe actually yield? (go on, take a guess)

3. How full was the crock pot after adding the meatballs from question #2 and the required sauce? (note: this is a crock pot recipe, being tried for the first time (big mistake - not using my grandmother's tried and true recipe, which calls for browning all the meatballs before cooking them in the sauce...I thought the crock pot recipe would both save me cooking time and be less labor intensive))

4. How much extra time will the meatballs from question #2 take to be fully cooked than the original 6 - 8 hours on low called for in the recipe (crock pot is a 5 1/2 quart capacity)

5. How much of the meatball mixture was left after the meatballs in question #2 were formed?

6. What the heck is the cook going to do with the leftover meatball mix?




Answers:
1. It should yield thirty-two meatballs (16 x 2).
2. Forty-eight 2 ounce meatballs went into the crock pot.
3. The crock was full to the rim.
4. Enough time that the dish will most likely be done exactly 2 1/2 hours after the cook goes to bed tonight.
5. It looked like about a pound, though the cook did not have the heart to actually weigh it.
6. Brown it (unformed), freeze it and use it the next time the cook makes home made meat sauce. Frankly, adding to to sauce will make the sauce taste like the cook tried to make meatballs but they broke apart, so it will really be business as usual.