Ratios
In a drawing, there are three circles, four stars, and three triangles. This is the ratio of stars to the total number of shapes.
What is 4 stars:10 total shapes, OR 2 stars:5 total shapes?
Five shovels of sand are mixed with four shovels of gravel to make cement. This is the number of shovels of gravel needed for 45 shovels of sand.
What is 36 shovels of gravel?
This is the vocabulary term used for 4/5 = 20/25.
What are equivalent ratios?
Of the 15 children at the park, 12 children are riding bikes and 3 children are riding scooters. This is the ratio of children riding bikes to total number children written in notation form.
What is 12 children riding bikes : 15 total children?
Lil blew up 7 balloons. Kathy blew up 5 balloons. This is the ratio of total balloons to Kathy's balloons.
What is 12 total balloons to 5 of Kathy's balloons?
Ari can walk 2 miles in 40 minutes. This is the amount of time it would take him to walk 14 miles.
What is 280 minutes OR 4 hour and 20 minutes?
This is the ratio 7:12 written in three different ways.
What is 7:12, 7/12, and seven (7) to twelve (12)?
A car can travel 600 miles on 20 gallons of gas. This is the ratio of miles to gallons in simplest form (hint: write the ratio in fraction form to find the answer).
What is 30 miles to 1 gallon?
The recipe calls for 2 eggs, 8 cups of flour, 3 teaspoons of oil, and a pinch of salt. This is the ratio of cups of flour to eggs.
What is 8 cups of flour : 2 eggs OR 4 cups of flour : 1 eggs?
When creating a pattern, for every 6 black tiles, Paul used 12 white tiles. If Paul used a total of 180 tiles, this is how many black tiles he used and how many white tiles he used.
What is 60 black tiles and 120 white tiles?
In the workbench drawer, the ratio of hex bolts to all bolts is 12 to 14. This is the ratio in simplest form (hint: write the ratio in fraction form to find your answer).
What is 6 to 7?
The ratio of cups of peas to cups of carrots is 3 to 2. This is 3 equivalent ratios (hint: write the ratio in fraction form to find your answers).
What is 6 to 4, 12 to 8, 15 to 10....?
There are 10 rabbits in a cage. The ratio of white rabbits to grey rabbits is 3:7. This is how many grey to white rabbits are in the cage.
What is 7 grey rabbits : 3 white rabbits?
One car can carry 5 people. This is the number of people that can be carried by 30 cars.
What is 150 people?
In a recent student government election, the ratio of students who voted for the winner to all the students who voted was 2 to 3. The number of students who voted for the winner is 60. This is the total number of all the students who voted.
What is 90 students?
Ahmad's mom prepares a plate with 5 peaches and 4 apples for 6 students in his study group. This is the ratio of fruit to students written in fraction form.
What is 9 fruits/6 students or 3 fruits/2 students?
There are 5 mice in a cage. The ratio of pink mice to black mice is 2:3. This is the ratio of black mice to pink mice.
What is 3 black mice : 2 pink mice.
Ivy's Fresh Eggs transports its eggs in cartons. One carton can hold a dozen eggs. This is the number of cartons that can hold 60 eggs.
What is 5 cartons?
In basketball, Katrina makes 2 out of every 3 free throws. Her coach claims that if she tries 54 free throws, she should make 18 of them. This is whether the coach is correct or incorrect.
What is incorrect? (36 out of 54 free throws)
A recipe uses 2 cups of chopped onions, 6 cups of chopped tomatoes, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and 3 potatoes. This is how many cups of chopped tomatoes are needed to triple the recipe.
What is 18 cups of chopped tomatoes, because 6 x 3 = 18?