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100
Do these ratios form a proportion? Why or why not? 4/12 and 3/9
Yes because they both simplify to 1/3 (or another acceptable explanation)
100
Write two ratios equal to 2:3
Answers vary but may include 4:6, 6:9, and 8:12.
100
Eddie had a part-time job going door-to-door selling magazine subscriptions. If he sold 12 subscriptions at $12.95 each, what is the total amount of money that he brought in? Show your work.
$155.40
100
NO CALCULATOR USE! Show your work! Brian is making smoothies for his friends. He has 4 1/2 total cups of strawberries, and he wants to make smoothies for 12 friends. If he puts the same amount of strawberries in each smoothie, how many cups of strawberries will be in each one?
3/8 cups of strawberries
200
Find the missing number in the proportion. 10/3 = ?/12
40
200
Find the unit rate for 45 miles in 5 hours.
9 mph
200
On Friday night, Sheila and Judy threw a party. They didn't have much money so they served only punch and pretzels. They had 8.4 pounds of pretzels. If they put the pretzels evenly into 4 serving bowls, how many pounds of pretzels would be in each bowl?
2.1 pounds of pretzels
200
The cost of seven hats is $56.70. What is the cost of 4 hats?
$32.40
300
At the middle school dance, the ratio of girls attending to boys attending was 5 to 4. There were 250 girls attending the dance. How many boys were there? Set up a proportion and solve.
200 boys
300
A classroom has 92 desks in four classrooms. What is the unit rate for this situation?
23 desks per classroom
300
Mrs. Peters has a 24-inch kitchen shelf where she stores different spices. The spices are kept in small tin boxes, each 1.6 inches in length. How many of these boxes of spices can fit on the shelf? Show your work.
15 boxes
400
At a beach party, two watermelons were needed for every 10 people. How many melons were needed for 75 people? Set up a proportion and solve.
15 melons
400
3 pounds of bananas cost $1.80. How much would 8 pounds of bananas cost?
$4.80
400
Alexandra goes grocery shopping every four days, and Maverick goes grocery shopping every six days. If they both go grocery shopping today, in how many days will they both go grocery shopping on the same day again?
12 days
500
A baseball pitcher threw mostly fastballs and curveballs. He liked to throw 5 fastballs for every 3 curveballs. If he threw 24 curveballs in a game, how many fastballs would you expect him to throw? Set up a proportion and solve.
about 40 fastballs
500
Four pounds of apples cost $5.16. How much would five pounds of apples cost?
$6.45
500
Michelle has 40 boxes of nerds and 24 tootsie roll pops. She wants to put them into bags so that there isn't any candy left unused. What is the largest number of groups she can make with equal numbers of both types of candy? How many of each type of candy will be in each bag?
There will be 8 bags of candy. Each bag will contain 5 boxes of nerds and 3 tootsie roll pops.
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