Word Problems and Scaling
Finding the Unit Rate
Ratios
Mixing Juices
Solving Proportions
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Problem on board
Ms. Ryther will give answer.
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What is the best price for pencils 12 for $3.00 or 45 for $11.00?
45 for $11.00
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The ratio of boys to girls is 5:3. What fraction out of 24 students is girls?
9 students are girls.
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What are the fractions of orange in each mix?
Mix A- 2/11 Mix B- 3/11 Mix C- 4/16 Mix D- 5/19
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3/17 = 4x
x= 22.6
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Question on board
Ms. Ryther will give answer.
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Socks were on sale for a pack of 6 pairs for 12.99. How much was each sock?
$1.08
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There are 625 students at Lincoln Middle School. The ratio of girls to boys is 2:3. How many boys attend Lincoln Middle School?
250 students are boys.
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What are the fractions of water in each?
Mix A- 9/11 Mix B- 8/11 Mix C- 12/16 Mix D- 13/19
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12/x=48/65
x=16.25
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Mrs. Fox had 245 trick-or-treaters this year. She likes boys better than girls so each girl got 2 pieces of candy and each boy got 1. If the ratio of boys to girls that came to Mrs. Fox was 2:3, how many pieces of candy did she hand out?
392 pieces of candy
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If 100 collectible quarters sell for $490.00, what is the value of each quarter?
$4.90
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Ryan has a bucket of colored balls. The ratio of blue to green to red to orange is 5:4:6:2. If there was 34 balls in the bucket, which color had 4 balls?
Green.
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What juice is the most orange tasting?
Mix B is the most orange tasting.
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What is 12% of 148? Round to the nearest hundredth.
17.76%
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Paper is sold in packs of 50 sheets for 67 cents. If Mrs. Price sells each paper to her students for 4 times the cost of how much she paid, how much does she charge her students? Round your answer down.
5 cents
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Pencils are sold at 13 for $4.59. How much would 2 pencils be?
70 or 71 cents
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******Daily Double****** There are 1,368 girls at the water park. If the ratio of boys to girls at the park is 1:2, how many boys are at the water park?
684 boys.
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If there are 380 campers and each camper gets 1/2 cup of juice, how many batches of mix D will have to be made?
10 batches
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If a car takes 13 gallons for every $55.00 of gas, how much would it cost for 17 gallons of gas?
$71.90 or $72.00 for 17 gallons of gas
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There are 150 quarters in Michelle's piggy bank. If the ratio of quarters to nickels to dimes is 5:3:1, what is Michelle's total in her piggy bank?
$45.00
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Marjorie is buying erasers for her class. They are sold for $16.77 for 2 dozen. How much is 1 eraser?
69 or 70 cents
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There are 150 quarters in Michelle's piggy bank. If the ratio of quarters to nickels to dimes is 5:3:1, how many nickels and dimes are in her piggy bank?
90 Nickels 30 Dimes
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If there are 900 campers, and each camper drinks 1/3 a cup of juice at lunch, how many batches of mix B would have to be made?
28 batches
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There are 46 6th graders, 57 7th graders, and 88 8th graders at Garfield Middle School. The student council has 45 students from all grade levels combined. How many students in each grade level should be able to represent their class based on amount of students?
6th Grade: 11 7th Grade: 13 8th Grade: 21 **Answers can be slightly off, but have to add up to 45
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