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Carolina needs to make soup for a party. For one bowl of soup, she needs 3 tomatoes and 2 potatoes. How many tomatoes and how many potatoes does she need to make 12 bowls of soup?

36 tomatoes and 24 potatoes.

100

The ratio of the number of apples to oranges in a basket is 3:2. If there are 300 apples, how many oranges are there?

200 oranges

100

Carolina is traveling to NYC this summer. She’s packing 2 suitcases to hold her clothes, each with a capacity of 45 pieces of clothing. If Carolina wants to pack 25 shirts, 10 jeans, 15 jackets, and 6 pairs of shorts, how many pieces of clothing will she have to leave at home?

11 pieces of clothing

100

932 ÷ 4

233

200

Enrique went to a concert. The concert venue has a seating capacity of 5000 people. The venue’s seats are divided into sections with 250 seats each. How many sections does the concert venue have?

20 sections.

200

In a classroom, the ratio of boys to girls is 4:5. If there are 180 boys, how many girls are there?

225 girls

200

A library has 7,560 books and wants to distribute them evenly across 18 shelves. How many books will each shelf hold?

420 books

200

168 ÷ 8

21

300

Arianna has 5,932 stickers. She wants to create sticker books, with each book containing 84 stickers. How many full sticker books can Arianna create?

70 remainder 52 


300

The ratio of the number of red to blue marbles in a jar is 7:3. If there are 210 red marbles, how many blue marbles are there?

90 blue marbles

300

Kaitlin works at a library. She has 4,488 books that she needs to organize. 55 of these books are old, so she needs to throw them out. She has 31 bookshelves she will use to organize these books. How many books will she put on each bookshelf?

341 books

300

873 ÷ 3

291

400

Marjorie works at a shop that sells pens. Each pack of pens holds 8 pens. If she has 9,216 pens in stock, how many packs can she make?

1152 packs of pens

400

In a garden, the ratio of tulips to sunflowers is 5:6. If there are 200 tulips how many sunflowers are there?

240 sunflowers

400

Eugene is baking cookies and the recipe he's using makes 36 cookies. If he only wants to make 12 cookies and the original recipe called for 3 cups of flour how many cups of flour does he need to use to make 12 cookies?

1 cup of flour

400

1536 ÷ 24

64

500

Christopher works at a candy factory. In the candy factory, 9,450 candies are produced every hour. If each bag of candy contains 105 candies, how many bags can Christopher fill

 each hour? 

90 bags

500

The ratio of cats to dogs in a shelter is 5:2. If there are 30 cats, how many dogs are there?

12 dogs

500

Angel needs to make soup for a party. For one bowl of soup, he needs 3 tomatoes and 2 potatoes. He has 40 tomatoes and 24 potatoes. How many tomatoes and how many potatoes will Angel have left over if he makes 12 bowls of soup?

4 tomatoes and 0 potatos

500

9248 ÷ 4

2312

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