A ratio is a fraction used to __________ two quantities.
What is compare
100
Alexa drove a motorcycle 200 kilometers in 3 hours. If she drove at this constant speed, how far could she travel in 9 hours?
What is 600 km
100
What is a scale factor?
What is a number used to multiply, or scale the original quantity.
100
A telephone booth that is 8 ft tall casts a
shadow that is 4 ft long. Find the height of a
lawn ornament that casts a 2 ft shadow.
What is 4ft
100
Find the distance between Riverside and
Milton if they are 12 cm apart on a map with
a scale of 4 cm : 21 km.
What is 63km
200
The ratio of 10 women to 8 men
What is 10/8 or 5/4, 5:4, 5 to 4
200
The department store was selling brightly colored terry cloth towels at 3 for $10. What would be the cost of 12 towels?
What is $40
200
A photograph is 36cm long. It is reduced by a scale factor of 1/3. How long is the new photograph?
What is 12cm
200
You have two triangles. One has a base of 8in and a height of 11in. The second has a base of 5in. What is the height of the second triangle.
What is 6.875in
200
A model house is 12 cm wide. If it was built
with a scale of 3 cm : 4 m then how wide is
the real house?
What is 16m
300
The ratio of 8 chicken legs to 8 chicken wings.
What is 1:1, 1/1, 1 to 1
300
It takes Bernice 1.5 hours to type 6 pages. If she can continue at that rate, how long would it take her to type 15 pages?
What is 3.75 hours
300
***Double Jeopardy***
A Volkswagen Beatle was enlarged from 7in in length to 91in in length. Its width was enalrged from 5in to 65in. What is the scale factor?
What is 13
300
A statue that is 12 ft tall casts a shadow that
is 15 ft long. Find the length of the shadow
that a 8 ft cardboard box casts.
What is 10ft
300
The model of an airplane has a wingspan of 20 inches. The model has a scale of 1 inch = 4 feet. What is the wingspan of the actual airplane?
What is 80ft
400
The ratio of cents in half a dollar to cents in a dime.
What is 50/10, 5:1, 5 to 1
400
Chrissy took a great photograph of her boyfriend Hugo. the orinigal snap-shot was 3 inches tall and 5 inches wide. She had the picture enlarged so that it would be 12 inches tall. How wide was the picture?
What is 20 inches
400
The scale on a map is 1cm : 6km. If two cities are 13cm apart on the map, what is the actual distance bewteen the cities?
What is 78km
400
A 6.5 ft tall car standing next to an adult
elephant casts a 33.2 ft shadow. If the adult
elephant casts a shadow that is 51.5 ft long
then how tall is it? (Round to the nearest tenth)
What is 10.08ft
400
One package of blueberries costs $3. How
many packages of blueberries can you buy
for $9?
What is 3
500
SIMILAR FIGURES
Write a ratio comparing the number of vowels to consonants.
What is 6/8, 3 to 4, 3:4, 3/4
500
The highschool started a club for students interested in modern dance. The club seemed to interest more girls than boys: there were 5 girls for every 3 boys that joined the club. There were 35 girls in the club. How many boys were there?
What is 21 boys
500
A map shows the distance bewteen the corner of Cactus Road and 1st Street and the corner of 1st Street and Merle Road as 3 inches. If the scale is 1in : 3.7mi, what is the actual distance?
What is 11.1mi
500
If a 42.9 ft tall flagpole casts a 253.1 ft long
shadow then how long is the shadow that a
6.2 ft tall woman casts? (Round to the nearest hundreth)
What is 36.58ft
500
***DOUBLE JEOPARDY***
The length of a model 1957 Bel Air car is 4.5in. The life-size Bel Air is 193.5in long. How many times bigger would the model car need to be to become life size?