Ratios
There are 3 cats and 6 dogs at the shelter. What is the ratio dogs to cats. Ratio must be simplified!
2:1
You travel 60 miles in 2 hours. What is your speed in miles per hour?
30 miles per hours = 30 mph
If 1 foot = 12 inches, how many inches are in 5 feet?
60 inches
What is 15 out of 20 as a percent?
75%
There are a lot of shirts in Maya's closet. There are 4 blue, 3 red, 7 green, 4 yellow, 3 white. What is the ratio of green to the total?
7 to 21
A printer makes 40 pages in 5 minutes. How many pages per minute?
8 pages per minute
A car goes 180 miles in 3 hours. Convert this rate to miles per minute.
1 mile per minute
What is 25% of 80?
20
A fruit punch recipe uses 4 cups of pineapple juice for every 10 cups of orange juice. If you want to make a smaller batch using only 2 cups of orange juice, how much pineapple juice should you use?
5 cups of pineapple juice
A car travels 150 miles using 5 gallons of gas. Find the gallons per mile.
5/150 = 1/30 = 0.033 gallons per mile
How many seconds is in 2 hours? (1 hour = 60 minutes) (1 minute = 60 seconds)
7200 seconds
If 60 marbles is 40% of the total amount of marbles in a collection. What is the total number of marbles?
150 total marbles
Name 3 visual strategies of finding equivalent ratios.
Double number lines, tape diagrams, graphs, or ratio tables
A student types 360 words in 6 minutes. Find the typing speed in words per minute.
60 words per minute
A plane travels 500 kilometers per hour. How many meters per second is this? (1 km = 1,000 m; 1 hr = 3,600 sec)
139 meters per second
A store collected $84 in sales tax, which is 6% of the total sales. What were the total sales?
$1400
In a school, the ratio of teachers to students is 1:20. If there are 500 students, how many teachers are there?
25 Teachers
An animal runs 400 meters in 60 seconds. What’s the speed in meters per minute ?
400 meters per minute
Two kids walk to the end of the fishing pier and back. The length of the fishing pier is 2640 feet long. How many kilometers did the students walk?
Approximately 1.61 km
A $60 jacket is on sale for 20% off. What’s the sale price of the jacket?
$48