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Equivalent Ratios
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Unit Rate
Miscellanous
100
Write the ratio squares to circles.
3:1
3 to 1
3/1
100
Laney has five dogs and two cats. What is the ratio from dog to cat?
5:2
100
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
1/4
2/8, 3/12, 4/16
100
What is the ratio for the number of legs on a bird to number of legs on an elephant.
2:4
100
George read 126 pages of a book in 18 minutes. How many pages did he read in 1 minute?
7 pages per minute
100
Byron paid $21 for 10 gallons of gasoline. To the nearest cent, how much did it cost for one
gallon of gasoline?
a.)$2.10
b.)$2.00
c.)$11.00
d.)$21.00
a.)$2.10
200
Write the ratio of stars to squares.
4:2
4 to 2
4/2
200
A farmer has 147 cows for milk and 17 cows for beef. What is the ratio from milk cows to beef cows?
147:17
200
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
2/9
4/18, 6/27, 8/36
200
What is the ratio for a number of toes we have to number of legs?
10:2
200
Mr. Thomas bought candy for Halloween. He paid $27.00 for 9 bags of candy. How much did he pay per bag?
$3.00 per bag
200
Ari can walk 2 miles in 40 min. What is the amount of time it will take him to walk 4 miles.
80 min.
300
Write the ratio of shapes to triangles.
12 to 4
12:4
12/4
300
A construction worker had 12 feet of red wood and 56 feet of brown wood. What is the ratio from red wood to brown wood?
12:56 or 3:14
300
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
9/13
18/26, 27/39, 36/52
300
What is the ratio for sides on a rectangle to sides on a triangle?
4:3
300
A store is selling sports jerseys $96 for 3 jerseys. How much per jersey?
$32 per jersey
300
A movie theatre charges $7 per ticket. How much would 12 tickets cost?
$84
400
Write the ratio of pink to yellow.
1:6
1 to 6
1/6
400
A baker has 12 blue macaroons and 34 red macaroons. What is the ratio from red to blue?
34:12 or 17:6
400
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
12/16
3/4, 6/8, 9/12, 15/20, 24/32
400
What is the ratio for the number of wheels on a car to number of wheels on a bicycle?
4:2
400
A factory can produce sweaters at a rate of 500 traps in 4 hours. What is the unit rate per hour?
125 sweaters per hour
400
30 buses can carry 1500 people. What is the number of people that can be carried by 5 buses.
250 people
500
What is the ratio of moons to suns?
6:2
6 to 2
6/2
500
A cat finds 97 rats and 24 rabbits in a barn. What is the ratio for this from rats to rabbits?
97:24
500
Write 3 more Equivalent Ratios:
24/36
12/18, 6/9, 2/3, 8/12, 4/6, 48/72
500
What is the ratio for pentagon sides to triangle sides?
5:3
500
Lindsay earned $56 babysitting. If she babysat for 8 hours, what was her rate per hour?
$7.00 per hour
500
Ivy's Fresh Eggs transports its eggs in crates. It takes 2 trucks to carry 80 crates. What is the number of crates that 8 trucks can carry.
320 crates