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Equivalent Ratios
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Unit Rate
Create a Table or Double Number Line
100
Write the ratio squares to circles.
3:1
3 to 1
3/1
100
Laney has five dogs and two cats. What is the ratio from dog to cat?
5:2
100
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
1/4
2/8, 3/12, 4/16
100
What is the ratio for the number of legs on a bird to number of legs on an elephant.
2:4
100
George read 126 pages of a book in 18 minutes. How many pages did he read in 1 minute?
7 pages per minute
100
5 shovels of sand are mixed with 4 shovels of gravel to make cement. What is the number of shovels of gravel needed for 45 shovels of sand.
36 shovels of gravel
200
Write the ratio of stars to squares.
4:2
4 to 2
4/2
200
A farmer has 147 cows for milk and 17 cows for beef. What is the ratio from milk cows to beef cows?
147:17
200
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
2/9
4/18, 6/27, 8/36
200
What is the ratio for a number of toes we have to number of legs?
10:2
200
Mr. Thomas bought candy for Halloween. He paid $27.00 for 9 bags of candy. How much did he pay per bag?
$3.00 per bag
200
Ari can walk 2 miles in 40 min. What is the amount of time it will take him to walk 4 miles.
80 min.
300
Write the ratio of shapes to triangles.
12 to 4
12:4
12/4
300
A construction worker had 12 feet of red wood and 56 feet of brown wood. What is the ratio from red wood to brown wood?
12:56 or 3:14
300
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
9/13
18/26, 27/39, 36/52
300
What is the ratio for sides on a rectangle to sides on a triangle?
4:3
300
A store is selling sports jerseys $96 for 3 jerseys. How much per jersey?
$32 per jersey
300
A movie theatre charges $7 per ticket. How much would 12 tickets cost?
$84
400
Write the ratio of pink to yellow.
1:6
1 to 6
1/6
400
A baker has 12 blue macaroons and 34 red macaroons. What is the ratio from red to blue?
34:12 or 17:6
400
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
12/16
3/4, 6/8, 9/12, 15/20, 24/32
400
What is the ratio for the number of wheels on a car to number of wheels on a bicycle?
4:2
400
A factory can produce sweaters at a rate of 500 traps in 4 hours. What is the unit rate per hour?
125 sweaters per hour
400
30 buses can carry 1500 people. What is the number of people that can be carried by 5 buses.
250 people
500
What is the ratio of moons to suns?
6:2
6 to 2
6/2
500
A cat finds 97 rats and 24 rabbits in a barn. What is the ratio for this from rats to rabbits?
97:24
500
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
24/36
12/18, 6/9, 2/3, 8/12, 4/6, 48/72
500
What is the ratio for pentagon sides to triangle sides?
5:3
500
Lindsay earned $56 babysitting. If she babysat for 8 hours, what was her rate per hour?
$7.00 per hour
500
Ivy's Fresh Eggs transports its eggs in crates. It takes 2 trucks to carry 80 crates. What is the number of crates that 8 trucks can carry.
320 crates