Ratios/Percents
Stone spends 4 hours each week playing football and 3 hours each week playing basketball. Write the ratio of hours spent practicing basketball to hours spent playing football in three different ways.
3/4, 3 to 4, 3:4
Carson ran 5/7 of the distance around the school track. Tye ran 4/5 of Carson’s distance. What fraction of the total distance around the track did Tye run?
4/7
At the theater, Mrs. Glassett’s family spent $18.00 on adult tickets, $16.50 on children’s tickets, and $11.75 on refreshments. How much did they spend in all?
$46.25
The price tag on a shirt says $21.50. The final cost of the shirt, including sales tax, is $23.22. The equation 21.5 + t = 23.22 can be used to find the amount of sales tax t in dollars. What is the sales tax?
$1.72
A shoe box measures 15 in. by 7 in. by 4 1/2 in. What is the surface area of the box?
408 in2
Jacob uses 7 footballs and 9 soccer balls to make a design on the field. Write two ratios that are equivalent to 7/9.
14/18, 21/27 (answers can vary)
A group of students attend a math club. Half of the students are boys and 4/9 of the boys have brown eyes. What fraction of the group are boys with brown eyes?
2/9
A camera costs 115 Canadian dollars. If each Canadian dollar is worth 0.952 U.S. dollars, how much will the camera cost in U.S. dollars?
$109.48 U.S.
The equation m-12.5=48.6 can be used to find the original length m in centimeters of a wire before it was cut. What was the original length of the wire?
61.1 centimeters
Eli is working with a styrofoam cube for art class. The length of one side is 5 inches. How much surface area does Eli have to work with?
150 in.2
Sam and Jordan have read Percy Jackson for a class. Sam reads 20 pages in 2 days. Jordan reads 35 pages in 3 days. Who reads at a faster rate?
Jordan
Martha ate 1/4 of a pizza. If she divides the rest of the pizza into pieces equal to 1/8 pizza for her family, how many pieces will her family get?
6 pieces
Dax worked for 6 hours a day for 2 days mowing lawns and earned $114.24. How much did he earn per hour?
$9.52
Jackson runs 6 laps on a track. He runs a total of 1 mile, or 5,280 feet. Write and solve an equation to find the distance, in feet, that he runs in each lap.
6d=5280; d=880
880 feet
Max is building a sandcastle in the shape of a triangular pyramid. The area of the base is 7 square feet. Each side of the base has a length of 4 feet and the height of each face is 2 feet. What is the surface area of the pyramid?
19 ft.2
Johnny is hiking on a weekend camping trip. He has walked 6 miles so far. This is 30% of the total distance. What is the total number of miles he will walk?
20 miles
Mrs. Rice had 5/7 gallon of paint. She gave 1/7 gallon each to some students. How many students received paint if Mrs. Rice gave away all the paint?
5 students
If Raegan walks at an average speed of 2.72 miles per hour, how long will it take her to walk 6.8 miles?
2.5 hours
In a serving of 8 fluid ounces of pomegranate juice, there are 32.8 grams of carbohydrates. Write and solve an equation to find the amount of carbohydrates in each fluid ounce of the juice.
8c=32.8; c=4.1;
4.1 grams
The top of a skyscraper is shaped like a square pyramid. Each side of the base has a length of 60 meters and the height of each triangle is 20 meters. What is the lateral area of the pyramid?
2,400 m2
A customer placed an order with a bakery for muffins. The baker has completed 37.5% of the order after baking 81 muffins. How many muffins did the customer order?
216 muffins
There was 2/3 of cake for 6 friends to share equally. What fraction of the pizza did each person get?
1/9 of the pizza
Mac cycled 62.3 miles in 3.5 hours. If he cycled at a constant speed, how far did he cycle in 1 hour?
17.8 miles
Mrs. Rice bought a pack of Oreos. She served 7/8 pound of Oreos at a party. This amount represents 2/3 of the entire package. The equation 2/3n=7/8 can be used to find the number of pounds n in a full package. How many pounds of Oreos were in the package that Mrs. Rice bought?
1 5/16 pounds
A small refrigerator is a cube with a side length of 16 inches. Use the formula s=6s2 to find the surface area of the cube.
1,536 square inches