Ratio word problems
There are 4 cats and 16 dogs. Write a ratio of dogs to cats. Simplify into lowest terms
1:4
Simplify 24:72
1/3
If there are 24 boys in the class and 16 girls. Write the ratio of girls to boys in simplest form.
2/3
Sherwood Park is interested in organizing a fundraiser by selling tickets to the carnival. For every 10 tickets sold, the school makes $5.00 in profit. If the school wants to raise $2000, how many tickets would they need to sell?
4000
Are the ratios, 1:3 and 9:18 equivalent?
NO
The ratio of teachers to students is 2:7. If there are 182 students. How many teachers are there?
52
Reduce this ratio to lowest terms
122:444
61:222
There are 7 butterflies, 3 lady bugs, 12 spiders, and 6 flies in big tube. What is ratio of spiders to total number of insects?
3/7
There are 120 bananas, 100 apples, and 160 kiwis. What is the ratio of apples to bananas in simplest form?
5/6
Find the equivalent ratio
78: 33
16:11
The ratio of the number of days is rains to the number of days it doesn't rain is 3:1. If it rained for 36 days, how many did it NOT rain.
12 days it doesn't rain
Ms. Helen is making a pasta dinner for a fundraiser. The ratio of cups of pasta to cups of pasta sauce is 9:4. If you have 96 cups of pasta sauce, how many cups of pasta do you need?
216 cups of pasta
Ms. Helen is making cupcakes for her class. For every 1 chocolate cupcake, she places 4 mini Easter eggs on them. For every vanilla cupcake. She places 5 Easter eggs on them. If Ms. Helen makes 20 chocolate and 25 vanilla cupcakes, how many mini Easter eggs does she need to buy?
On Saturday, Frank work at Cobbs bakery. He knows that for every 3 loaves of bread he makes, he must also make 7 croissants to keep up with demand for the day.
If he makes 63 loaves of bread, how many croissants does he need to make?
21 x 7 = 147
RATIO TABLE
1 10
2 20
3 X
X 80
30
8
There are 155 more dogs at the animal shelter than cats. If the ratio of dogs to cats is 5:3. How many cats are at the animal shelter?
93 meowing cats!
There is a total of 42 staff at Sherwood Park. If the ratio of female to male teachers is 4:2. How many males teach at the school?
14 male teachers
For every bag of candy, there are 16 M&Ms. Which statement is not accurate?
1. Five bags would have 80 M&M’s.
2. ½ of a bag would have 8 M&M’s.
3. The ratio of bags to M&M’s is 2 to 24.
3. The ratio of bags to M&M’s is 2 to 24.
There are 24 volleyballs, 20 basketballs, 14 tennis balls, and 18 basketballs. What is the ratio of basketballs to total number of balls in simplest form?
5/19
True or False: Joe has 70 candy bars. David has 7.
David has 10 times as many candy bars as Joe.
FALSE
A train leaves a station and makes 4 stops for every 1 kilometer. How many stops will it make for every 150 kilometers?
600 stops!
Fill in the blank
Cups of Apple Juice Cups of Orange Juice
8 a)?
16 20
b)? 30
64 40
a) 32
b) 10
There are 112 trees in the orchard. The ratio of pear trees to apple trees is 5 : 11. How many pear trees are there? How many apple trees are there?
pear is 35 and apple is 77 = 112
For every 12 blue cars a factory makes, it makes 13 black cars. If the factory made 60 blue cars, how many are black?
65 black cars