Potpourri
Proportions
Scale Drawings
%s (is/of)
Similar Figures
100

A basketball is orange, An orange is orange...

what other thing as a fruit is orange?

A mango

100
Andrew knows that five pounds of turkey will feed eight people. At this rate, if Andrew is having 20 people over to his house for dinner, how many pounds of turkey will he need?
12.5 lbs
100
Helen walks to school 3.2 kilometers every morning. If a map of Alexandria uses a scale where 1 in represents 2 km, what distance on the map will represent the distance she walks to school every morning?
1.6 inches
100
198 is what percent of 900?
22%
100
True or False: All circles are similar.
True
200

In Math... what is the most important thing you should start with?

Adding

200
Jordan is making a scale model of his favorite car. The actual car is 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. If Jordan wants his model to be 12 inches in length, what will be the width of his model?
6 inches
200
Tavaris wants to visit a friend in Maryland and has checked a map with a scale of 1/2 inch = 3 miles. If Tavaris measures the distance on the map from his house to his friend's house as 3 and 1/8 inches, how many miles away is his friends house?
18 and 3/4 miles
200
10% of what number is 2?
20
200
A triangle DEF has sides with the following lengths: DE is 45, EF is 39 and FD is 42. Triangle XYZ has sides with the lengths: XY is 30, YZ is x, and ZX is 28. If DEF and XYZ are similar, what is the value of x?
x=26
300

Who is the cheekiest in your family?

Isis

300
A tree casts a shadow 9 meters long. At the same time, a building 54 meters tall casts a shadow 21 meters long. To the nearest meter, what is the height of the tree?
23 meters
300
On a map, the distance between Milvale and Dracut is 1 1/4 inches. If the map uses a scale of 1/4 inch represents 1 mile, what is the actual distance in miles from Milvale to Dracut?
5 miles
300
36 is 150% of what number?
24
300
If triangle ABC is similar to JKL, write a true proportion that relates the sides of these triangles.
example: A/J = C/L
400

Sam ran the farthest. and his mother ran past him...

what is the decimal and proportion of how much she ran 

337.5 miles

400
Sammy used 5 yards of fabric to make 2 football uniforms. How many yards of fabric would he need to make 24 more uniforms?
60 yards
400
Diego is building a 1:35 scale model of a spaceship. If the height of his model is 18 inches, what is the height of the real spaceship?
630 inches
400
Alexis answered 12 of the 15 questions on her test. What percent of the questions did Patty answer?
80%
400
Triangle FOX is similar to triangle FAN. Which side corresponds with side FA?
side FO
500
At the same time that a 60-foot tall building casts a shadow that is 24 feet long, a nearby tree casts a shadow that is 18 feet long. Which measure is closest to the height of the tree?
45 feet tall
500
Rachel's dogs ate 42 pounds of food during July. At that rate, how many days would a 100-pound bag of dog food would last? (to the nearest day)
74
500
John would like to take a trip to escape the cold weather. He knows the distance between Alexandria, VA and Orlando, Florida is 840 miles. The distance between the two cities on the map he is using is 10.5 inches. What is the scale of the map he is using?
1in : 80 miles
500
Oscar spent 30% of the money he earned from babysitting over winter break. If he spent $45, what is the amount of money he earned over winter break?
$150
500
If the triangle MOE is similar to SAW, what can be said about the angles MEO and SWA?
They are congruent.
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