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100
A school has an enrollment of 600 students. 330 of the students are girls. Express the fraction of students who are boys in lowest terms.
What is 9/20
100
Last year the girls’ basketball team had 8 fifth-grade students and 7 sixth-grade students. What was the ratio of sixth-grade students to fifth-grade students on the team?
7 to 8
100
Felicity babysat 2 hours each night for 10 nights. She earned a total of $180 babysitting.Felicity wants to calculate her hourly rate. How much did Felicity earn per hourbabysitting?
$9 per hour
100
Kevin and James scored points in the basketball game at a ratio of 3:5. James scored 16 more points than Kevin did. How many points did Kevin score?
24 points
100
Ben’s Game World is having a sale on video games. The store is offering a sale pack of 4 video games for $43.80. What is the unit price of a video game in the sale pack?
What is $10.95
200
List the fractions that are equivalent to 2/3
1/2 2/6 3/6 4/6 10/15 4/9 6/12 1/3
what are 4/6 and 10/15
200
Cantaloupes are on sale for 2 for $1.25. What is the unit rate?
What is 62.5 cents per cantaloupe
200
In the time it takes wheel B to make 4 turns, wheel C makes 10 turns.
In 80 turns of wheel B, how many turns does wheel C make?
What is 200
200
Big Earl’s Rent-A-Car rents cars at a rate of $212 for 4 days. At this rate, what would it cost to rent the same car for 10 days?
What is $530
200
A restaurant worker used 5 loaves of wheat bread and 2 loaves of rye bread to make sandwiches for an event.
What does the ratio 7:2 repesent in this situation?
What is the ratio of total loaves of bread to loaves of rye bread.
300
What is the ratio of # to $ in lowest terms?
# # # $ # $ $ $ # # $ # # $
4:3
300
There are 36 performers in a dance recital. The ratio of men to women is 2:7. How many men are in the dance recital?
8 men
300
Max's salary is $500 a month. He spends of his salary on two chairs and
of his salary on an air conditioner for his new apartment.
Max has how much money left?
what is $100
300
The Students in Mr. Roberts class play games at recess.
6 boys played soccer
4 girls played soccer
2 boys played kickball
8 girls played kickball
Little Earl stated " for every girl that played soccer, 2 girls played kickball!"
Compare the number of boys who played soccer to the number of boys who played kickball using a ratio. Write your answer as a sentence like Little Earl did.
for every boy who played kickball, 3 boys played soccer.
300
Alia wants to buy pizza for a party. • 40 to 50 people will be coming to the party. • A large pizza from Paolo’s Pizza Place serves 3 to 4 people. • Each large pizza from Paolo’s Pizza Place costs $11.50.
Alia wants to buy enough pizza so that people will not be hungry, and wants to have the least amount of pizza left over. How many large pizzas should Alia buy?
13 pizzas
400
A company manufacturing paper coffee cups produces 540 paper coffee cups every half hour.
How many paper coffee cups will be produced in 3 hours and 30 minutes?
3,780 paper cups
400
The Belmont race track known as “Big Sandy” is 1½ miles long. In 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes race in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Assuming he ran on “Big Sandy”, what was his unit speed in miles per hour??
36 miles per hour
400
You have found out that on a full tank in your scooter, you can drive 175 km.
How far can you go from where you are, if your tank is 4/5th full? Enter a number in the box.
140 kilometers
400
A water purifier can purify one liter of water in half a minute.
How many liters of water can be purified in 8 minutes?
16 liters
400
Use the digits 1-9 to create 3 equivalent ratios.
Each digit can only be used once.
__:__ = _18_ : _9_ = __ __ : __ __
6:3 = 18:9 = 54:27
500
Truck A, Truck B and Truck C are cruising at different, but constant, speeds as shown below.
Which truck will cover the most distance in 1 hour?
Truck A
500
Gabby makes banana bread at her bakery every Monday and Wednesday. Her banana bread recipe calls for the ratios of ingredients shown.
5 cups of sugar for every 50 tablespoons of butter
80 tablespoons of butter for every 32 bananas
If she uses 3 cups of sugar, how much BUTTER and how many BANANAS will she need .
30 cups of butter and 12 bananas
500
Noelia is checking a map for the distance to a beach. The scale of the map is 3 centimeters represent 8 kilometers. If she finds the closest beach to be 18 centimeters from where she is, how far away is the beach in kilometers?
48 kilometers away
500
Bubba bought 4 tickets to see the Cubs play the Cincinnati Reds for $90. Each ticket cost the same amount ofmoney. At this rate how much would he pay for 5 tickets?
What is $112.50
500
Little Billy surveyed customers at MCSonic's and asked "do you like Chicken Mc'O'Nuggets or The Big'o'Mack best?" What is the FEWEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE surveyed if exactly 93.6% picked Mc'o'Nuggets?
HINT: Partial people cannot complete a survey!
93.6% = 93.6/100 = 936/1,000 = 117/125 so....125 people completed the survey!