Ratio Statements
I have 2 cups of blue paint and 3 cups of red paint.
OR
The ratio of blue paint to red paint is 2 to 3.
Each table has 4 chairs. How many tables would there be if you had 16 chairs?
4 tables
Poet reads 15 pages in 10 minutes. How many pages does he read in 2 minutes?
Poet will read 3 pages.
A baker at tartine likes to make 3 batches of bread for every 4 batches of pies. How many of each if they made 14 total batches?
6 batches of bread and 8 batches of pies! Yum!
Each glove has one thumb holes and 4 finger holes.
The ratio of thumb to fingers is 1 to 4.
OR
The ratio of fingers to thumb is 4 to 1.
If you have 5 meals in 1 week at school, how many weeks would it take to eat 35 meals?
7 weeks
Levi draws 40 cartoons every 15 minutes of math class. How many can he draw in 3 minutes?
Levi can draw 8 cartoons! Woah!
To make a batch of chewy chocolate chip cookies, you need 2 cups of flour for every 1 cup of brown sugar. How many cups of flour and brown sugar do we need if we had 21 total cups?
14 cups of flour and 7 cups of brown sugar!
There are 6 chocolate cupcakes and 4 vanilla cupcakes. What is the ratio statement of chocolate to total cupcakes?
The ratio of chocolate to total cupcakes is 6 to 10.
Mr. Chan's part time job pays 45 dollars in 3 hours. How many dollars does he make in 9 hours?
Mr. Chan makes $135.
6th grade class has 240 students and 8 teachers. How many students does each teacher have?
Each teacher has 30 students.
Starbucks serves 14 adults for every 4 students in the morning. How many of each did they serve if 72 people came through?
Starbucks served 56 Adults and 16 students.
In a bag of apples and oranges, there are 13 pieces of fruit. If there are 4 apples, what is the ratio of apples to oranges?
The ratio of apples to oranges is 4 to 9.
Mr. Waldman grades 3 milestone tests in 10 minutes. How many can he grade in 55 minutes?
Mr. Waldman can grade 16.5 milestones.
4.5 batteries per flashlight!
In 2016, San Francisco's SPCA received 7 dogs for every 20 cats. How many of each did they get if there was 108 animals?
There would be 28 dogs and 80 cats. :(
There are 250 eighth graders, 230 seventh graders, and 240 sixth graders. What is the ratio of eighth to seventh to sixth graders?
The ratio of eighth, seventh and sixth graders is 250 to 230 to 240.
Ms. Malfesi walks 2 blocks in 3 minutes. How many blocks can she walk in 14 minutes?
She can walk 9 and 1/3 blocks.
Someone can run 25 stairs in 4 seconds. How many stairs can they run per second?
6.25 stairs per second.
Darlin went to pick strawberries and raspberries. Every 11 raspberries, she got 8 strawberries. After a day of picking berries, she had 152 total berries. How many of each did she get?
Darlin has 88 raspberries and 64 strawberries!