Ratios 1
There are 10 white marbles and 3 blue marbles. What is the ratio of blue to white marbles? (write 2 ways and using ratio language (words).
3:10, 3 to 10, 3/10
For every 3 blue marbles, there are 10 white marbles.
What would the following ratio look like if each quantity was halved? 4 / 6
2 / 3
The ratio of boys to girls is 1:2. Will there always be more boys or more girls in this comparison?
There will always be more girls because there are twice as many girls.
A fruit basket contains 4 apples, 3 bananas, and 5 oranges. What is the ratio of apples to bananas? Write it in two ways (using the word "to" and using a colon).
A soccer team has 6 boys and 9 girls. Write the ratio of girls to boys using the format "For every...
For every 9 girls, there are 6 boys.
There are 10 white marbles and 3 blue marbles. What is the ratio of white to blue marbles? (write 2 ways and using ratio language (words).
10:3, 10 to 3, 10/3
The ratio of white marbles to blue marbles is 10:3.
What would the following ratio look like if you tripled the two quantities? 10 to 20
30 to 60
The ratio of apples to oranges is 2:3. If we were making four identical fruit baskets using this ratio, how many apples and oranges would we need?
8 apples and 12 oranges
A fruit basket contains 4 apples, 3 bananas, and 5 oranges. What is the ratio of oranges to apples? Write it using a colon.
5 : 4
Sam and David collected coke cans to recycle. Sam collected 8 cans for every 10 cans David collected. Last week, Sam collected 48 cans.
What number is ,c, being multiplied by 10 to determine the number of cans David collected last week?
How many total cans did Sam and David collect last week?
David-60
Total-108
There are 2 red blocks, 3 orange blocks, and 4 black blocks. What is the ratio of total blocks to black blocks? (Write 2 ways and using ratio language (words).
9:4, 9 to 4, 9 / 4
For every 9 total blocks, there are 4 black blocks.
Write a ratio story about this ratio: 7:11 (two sentences)
Fill in the blanks: 1 : 2, 3 : __ , ___ : 20
1: 2, 3 : 6, 10 : 20
A fruit basket contains 4 apples, 3 bananas, and 5 oranges. What is the ratio of bananas to total fruit in the basket? Write it using the word "to".
3 to 12
At the playground, Terry completes 4 pull-ups for every 6 sit-ups he does. Yesterday he completed 36 sit-ups. What ratio represents the relationship between the number of pull-ups and the number of sit-ups Terry completed yesterday?
24:36
What is a ratio?
How many equal groups of 3 can we make out of each part of this ratio? 30 lions to 9 tigers
10 to 3
Fill in the blanks: 2 : 5, 6 : __ , ___ : 25
2:5, 6:15, 10:25
A classroom library has 8 graphic novels and 12 chapter books. Marcus says the ratio of chapter books to graphic novels is 8:12. Is Marcus correct? Explain why or why not.
Marcus is not correct because...
The ratio of the number of people who own a smartphone to the number of people who own a flip phone is 4: 3. If 500 more people own a smartphone than a flip phone, how many people own each type of phone?
Flip phone-1,500
Smart phone-2,000
Why does a ratio need two quantities?
Fill in the blanks: 2:4, __:6, ___:40
2:4, 3:6, 20:40
A classroom library has 8 graphic novels and 12 chapter books. Write the correct ratio of graphic novels to chapter books in colon form.
8:12
At a country concert, the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls is 2: 7. If there are 250 more girls than boys, how many boys are at the concert?
Boys-100