Ratios
Katrina owns both dogs and cats. She has a dog to cat ratio of 4 : 3. What is her ratio of dogs to pets owned?
4 : 7
Complete the equivalent rate:
30 miles/ 1 gallon = ? miles/ 8 gallons
240 miles
Which rate in the better deal?
$5.00 for 2 sandwiches or $6.75 for 3 sandwiches?
$6.75 for 3 sandwiches
7 hours = ____ minutes
420 minutes
Write in simplest form: 24 to 60
2 to 5
2:5
2/5
Joaquin rides his bike 32 miles in 8 hours. At this rate, how far will he ride in 3 hours?
12 miles
Which of the two rates is larger?
16 fish/ 4 hours or 39 fish/ 3 hours
39 fish/ 3 hours
_____ inches = 5 feet
60 inches
Write in simplest fraction form: 15 to 10
3/2
Nai can buy 20 balloons for $5.00. What is the price for 9 balloons?
$2.25
Kyle types at a rate of 55 words per minute. Cathy types at a rate of 120 words in 2 minutes. Which person types more words per minute?
Cathy
8 kilograms = ____ grams
8,000 grams
A container full of marbles has a ratio of orange marbles to black marbles of 5 : 12
If a container held 72 black marbles, how many orange marbles are in the container?
30 orange marbles
Jeremiah spent $3.96 on 4 lollipops at the store. What is the unit rate?
$0.99
Frankie can buy 14 candy bars for $10.50 at Target. At WalMart, Frankie can buy 12 candy bars for $9.60. Which store has the cheapest price for one candy bar?
Target
Mike’s work converting 20 meters to centimeters is shown below. Explain whether or not his work is correct. If it is incorrect, show Mike how to find the correct conversion.
Problem: _____ centimeters = 20 meters
I know: 1 meter = 100 centimeters
My work: 100 centimeters ÷ 20 = 5 centimeters Answer: 20 meters = 5 centimeters
Mistake: Mike divided by 20 instead of multiplying by 20. The answer is 2,000 centimeters.
Forty people wrote down a whole number less than 100. the ration of odd numbers to all the numbers picked was 5:8. How many more people picked odd numbers than even numbers?
10 people
Harold rode the high-speed train for four hours and traveled 480 miles. How long would it take him to travel 960 miles?
8 hours
Mark drove 150 miles in 3 hours. Jamal drove 220 miles in 4 hours. Both men traveled at this rate for a total of 6 hours. How much further did Jamal travel than Mark?
30 miles
Tamika eats jellybeans at a rate of 12 jellybeans every 4 minutes. It takes her 30 minutes to eat the snack size pack of jellybeans. Her brother, James, eats jellybeans at a rate of 28 jellybeans every 7 minutes. How many fewer minutes does it take James to eat a snack size pack of jelly beans compared to Tamika?
7.5 fewer minutes