Ratios
Proportions
Scale Factor
Similar Polygons
Other Stuff
100

Simplified form of the following ratio: 2 lb: 24 lb.

What is 1:12?

100

The value of z in:  z:4 = 15:12

What is 5?

100

Two corresponding sides of similar triangles have the lengths of 30 cm and 60 cm. What would be the scale factor of these triangles?

What is 1:2 or 2:1?

100

Decide if the 2 triangles are similar. (y/n)

Triangle A: angles in ratio 2:3:4

Triangle B: angles in ratio 6:9:12

What is no?

100

The factor relating two similar polygons

What is the scale factor?

200

The simplified form of the ratio 16 m: 500 cm

What is 16:5?

200

The value of x in:   x-3:7 = 1:14

What is 7/2 or 3.5?

200

Find the scale factor from a smaller triangle to a bigger triangle if the perimeter of each is 20 and 50, respectively.

What is 2:5 or 2/5 or 0.40?

200

Three rules to prove triangles are similar.

What is:

SAS similarity

AA similarity

SSS similarity

200

Isosceles right triangles are _________ similar.


(sometimes, always, never)

What is always?

300

The three measures of a triangle whose angles are in the ratio of 2:3:4

What are 40˚, 60˚, 80˚?

300

A model of a Sherman Tank has a scale of 1:16. The length of the actual tank is 584 cm. What is the length of the model?

What is 36.5 cm?

300

Find the scale factor from a bigger nonagon to a smaller nonagon if a pair of corresponding sides are 33 and 9, respectively.

What is 11:3 or 11/3 or 3.67?

300

A flagpole casts a shadow of 28 feet at the same time the shadow of a person 6 feet tall is 2 feet long. How tall is the flagpole?

What is 84 ft?

300

Triple Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Inches in a mile.


What is 63,360?

400

The measure of an angle and the measure of its complement have the ratio 7:2. Find the measures of the angles.

What is 70˚ and 20˚ ?

400

The value of y in:   32:y+7 = 67:13+y

What is -53/35 or -1.5143

400

If the scale factors between two regular hexagons are 2 and 1/2, then find the perimeter of the larger hexagon if one side of the smaller hexagon is 10

What is 120?

400

Double the Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Threw 7 interceptions (5 in one game) for the Buffalo Bills last season.

Who is Nathan Peterman?

400

1 kilometer = __________ centimeters

What is 100,000?

500

The length of a rectangle whose area is 192 square feet and length to width ratio is 1:3

What is 8 feet?

500

In November, 2005, the exchange rate of Canadian dollars to U.S. dollars was 1 to 0.85. A Canadian citizen paid $12.28 in U.S. dollars for lunch while visiting New York City. What was the price of the lunch in Canadian dollars?

What is $14.45?

500

The scale factor from a larger triangle to a smaller triangle is 2.5. Find the area of the larger triangle if the smaller triangle has an area of 32.

What is 200?

500

In table tennis, the table is a rectangle 9 feet long and 5 feet wide. A tennis court is a rectangle 78 feet long and 36 feet wide. Are the two surfaces similar? Explain.

What is no?


The sides are not proportional.


500

You need to make 36-half cup bags of trail mix for a class trip. The recipe calls for peanuts, chocolate chips and raisins in the extended ratio of 5:1:4. How many cups of each item do you need?

9 cups of peanuts 1.8 cups of chocolate chips 7.2 cups of raisins?????

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