Ratios
I bought 6 cookies for $3. How much does each cookie cost?
Each cookie costs $0.5
A car is driving 60 miles in 4 hours. How many miles does it drive per hour?
The car drives 15 miles per hour
Write an expression that shows a number (x) divided by 14.
x / 14
x/9 = 3
What would x equal?
x = 27
I had 6 3/5 cups of ice cream to share with 5 friends. How much ice cream would each person get?
Each person would get 1 8/25 cups of ice cream
A box has chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry candies in a ratio of 5:3:6. If there are 15 chocolate candies, how many strawberry candies would there be in total?
There will be 18 strawberry candies
I earned 3,280 points in a game. I won 40 challenges. How many points did I earn on each challenge?
I earned 82 points each challenge
I had 8 markers, you had 5. We added them together, then gave 2 away. How many markers would we have afterward?
We would have 9 markers afterward
4x - 1 = 23
What would x equal?
x = 6
You're baking cakes. You need 2 1/2 cups of sugar per cake. How many cakes can you bake if you have 12 1/2 cups of sugar?
You can bake 5 cakes
Trees were being planted in a ratio of 3 birch trees:5 oak trees:6 spruce trees. If 36 birch trees were planted, how many oak trees would be planted?
There would be 60 oak trees planted
24 pencils cost $1.20. How much money would 1 pencil cost?
Each pencil costs $0.05
I bought 14 books. I gave 1/3 of them to you. What expression can I use to find out how many books I keep (x)?
14 / 3 x 2 = x
Cookies are on sale. Each cookie costs $0.75 less than normal. If you buy 7 cookies right now, it will only cost $2.80.
What equation can you use to find out the usual cost of a cookie (x)?
2.80 / 7 + 0.75 = x
I have 2/3 of a quart of lemonade. I poured 1/6 of a quart in each cup. How many cups did I fill up with lemonade?
I filled 4 cups with lemonade
I share an award of $1,500 with you in a ratio of 2:3. How much of the prize would you get?
You would get $900
15 TVs cost $2,707.5. How much money would 1 tv cost?
1 TV would cost $180.5
5x [(16 + 89) / 5]- 23
82
x | y
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15 | 75
30 | 150
87 | 435
What equation can you use to find what y can equal?
x X 5 = y
I made 28 cookies. I want to give 3/4 to you. How many cookies will I give you?
You'll give me 21 cookies
You have 21 purple bottle caps. The ratio of the purple bottle caps to red bottle caps is 3:4. How many bottle caps do you have altogether?
You would have 49 bottle caps altogether
52 packages of water cost $546. Each package comes with 25 bottles of water. How much money would each individual water bottle cost?
Each water bottle costs $0.42
(65 x 82 + 0.72 + -1.62) / 5
1,065.82
x | y
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17 | 3.4
29 | 4.8
58 | 11.6
What equation can you use to find what y can equal?
x / 5 = y
On a 6 mile road, there's 2 road sign every 1/4 a mile. How many signs are there in those 6 miles?
There'll be 48 road signs