Ratios
In a drawing, there are three circles, four stars, and three triangles. This is the ratio of stars to the total number of shapes.
What is 2/5 or 4/10?
5 shovels of sand are mixed with 4 shovels of gravel to make cement. This is the number of shovels of gravel needed for 45 shovels of sand.
What is 36 shovels of gravel?
This is 4/5 and 20/25.
What are equivalent ratios?
Of the 15 children at the park, 12 children are riding bikes and 3 children are riding scooters. This is the ratio of children riding bikes to total number children written in the three ways to write a ratio.
What is 12 to 15, 12/15, and 12:15?
Lil blew up 7 balloons. Kathy blew up 5 balloons. This is the ratio of total balloons to Kathy's balloons.
What is 12 to 5?
Ari can walk 2 miles in 40 min. This is the amount of time it would take him to walk 14 miles.
What is 280 minutes or 4 hour and 20 minutes?
The ratio 7:12 written in the three ways to write a ratio.
What is 7:12, 7/12, and seven (7) to twelve (12)?
A car can travel 600 miles on 20 gallons of gas. This is the ratio of miles to gallons in simplest form.
What is 30 miles to 1 gallon?
The recipe calls for 2 eggs, 8 cups of flour, 3 teaspoons of oil, and a pinch of salt. This is the ratio of cups of flour to eggs.
What is 8:2 or 4:1?
When creating a pattern, for every 6 black tiles Paul used, he 12 white tiles. If Paul used a total of 180 tiles, this is how many black tiles he used and how many white tiles he used.
What is 60 black tiles and 120 white tiles?
In the workbench drawer, the ratio of hex bolts to all bolts is 12 to 14. This is the ratio in fraction form and in simplest form.
What is 6 to 7?
The ratio of cups of peas to cups of carrots is 3 to 2. This is 3 equivalent ratios.
What is 6 to 4, 12 to 8, 15 to 10....?
There are 10 rabbits in a cage. The ratio of white rabbits to grey rabbits is 3:7. This is how many white rabbits are in the cage.
What is 3 white rabbits?
Five buses can carry 250 people. This is the number of people that can be carried by 30 buses.
What is 1,500 people?
In a recent student government election, the ratio of students who voted for the winner to all the students who voted was 2 to 3. The number of students who voted for the winner is 60. This is the total number of all the students who voted.
What is 90 students?
Ahmad's mom prepares a plate with 5 peaches and 4 apples for 6 students in his study group. This is the ratio of fruit to students written in fraction form.
What is 9/6 or 3/2?
There are 5 mice in a cage. The ratio of pink mice to black mice is 2:3. This is how many black mice are in the cage.
What is 3 mice?
Ivy's Fresh Eggs transports its eggs in crates. It takes 2 trucks to carry 80 crates. This is the number of crates that 8 trucks can carry.
What is 320 crates?
In basketball, Katrina makes 12 out of every 18 free throws. Her coach claims that if she tries 54 free throws, she should make 18 of them. This is whether the coach is correct or incorrect.
What is incorrect? (36 out of 54 free throws)
A recipe uses 2 cups of chopped onions, 6 cups of chopped tomatoes, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and 3 potatoes. This is how many cups of chopped tomatoes are needed to triple the recipe.
What is 18, because 6 x 3 = 18?