Understand Ratio Concepts
A recipe uses 3 cups of water, 2 cups of rice, and 1 cup of black beans. What is the ratio of cups of rice to cups of water?
What is 2 to 3?
What is 4 cups of buttermilk?
Trevin puts 8 gallons of gas in his car and pays $22. What is the cost of 1 gallon of gas?
What is $2.75?
Keira bakes 8 loaves of banana bread and zucchini bread. The ratio of banana bread to zucchini bread is 3:1. How many loaves of banana bread does Keira bake?
What is 6 loaves of banana bread?
There are 4 apples for every 3 oranges in a basket. What is the ratio of apples to oranges?
What is 4:3?
A group of 20 students and 4 adults are going on a field trip to the museum. Provide the ratio of students to total attendees.
What is 20 to 24? What is 5 to 6?
Ms. Hillman loves making tea. To make her favorite tea she has to mix chai powder and milk. The instruction say to use 6 teaspoons of chai powder for every 2 cups of milk. Ms. Hillman wants to halve the recipe. How much chai powder and milk does she use?
In the video game Unicorn Quest, players earn the same number of points for completing each level. Brianna completed 2 levels and earned 56 points. How many points does Brianna earn for completing each level?
What is 28 points?
Malachi volunteers at an animal shelter. The ratio of dogs to cats is 4:3. There are 28 animals at the shelter. How many cats are at the animal shelter?
A recipe calls for 2 cups of flour for every 3 cups of sugar. If you use 6 cups of flour, how many cups to sugar do you need?
What is 9 cups of sugar?
In a city, there are 8 public and 3 private swimming pools. On weekends, 5 of the pools are open.
What is the ratio of pools open on weekends to the total number of pools?
What is 5 to 11?
Ms. Harp helps pack lunch for a class trip. She puts 10 pieces of celery and 12 baby carrots in each lunch. If Ms. Harp packs 100 pieces of celery in all, how many baby carrots does she pack?
What is 120 baby carrots?
Mr. Dow is planning a party. He spent $850 on catering. How much money did he spend per person if 30 of his friends come to the party?
What is $28.33?
Sanit makes peanut sauce from his grandfathers recipe. The recipe uses a ratio of 4 parts peanut butter to 1 part soy sauce. If Sanit wants to make 10 cups of peanut sauce, how many cups of peanut butter and soy sauce does Sanit need to use?
What is 8 cups of Peanut Butter and 2 cups of Soy Sauce?
A school has 120 students and 80 teachers. What is the simplified ratio of students to teachers?
What is 3:2?
Macy's aunt makes raspberry jam using 6 tablespoons of sugar and 8 tablespoons of raspberries. If Macy's aunt uses a total of 42 tablespoons of sugar and raspberries, how many tablespoons of each ingredient did she use?
What is 18 tablespoons of sugar and 24 tablespoons of raspberries?
Ms. Harper wraps presents for her son's birthday party. She uses the same amount of tape on each present. She needs 20 inches of tape to wrap 6 presents. How many inches of tape does Ms. Harper need to wrap 15 presents?
What is 50 inches of tape?
A bottle of orange juice contains 750 mg of vitamin C and has 6 servings. A bottle of cranberry juice contains 135 mg of vitamin C and has 1.5 servings. Mrs. Kahn wants to compare the amount of vitamin C in the juices. Which juice has the most vitamin C per serving?
What is orange juice?
In art class, Avery and Levi make orange pain by mixing yellow and red paint. Avery uses 5 parts yellow paint and 2 parts red paint. Levi uses 8 parts yellow paint and 3 parts red paint. Who makes the redder shade of orange?
Who is Avery?
The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 10:15. What is the simplified ratio of boys to girls?
What is 2:3?
Miguel picked a total of 25 tomatoes and cucumbers at the community garden. He picked 4 times as many tomatoes as cucumbers. How many of each did he pick?
What is 20 tomatoes and 5 cucumbers?
Which ratios are equivalent to 8:4? Choose all the correct answers?
2:1, 6:3, 16:8, 5:20, 10:6, 6:2
What is 2:1, 6:3, 16:8?
Town policy requires that a certain number of trees be planted for every tree that is cut down. If 8 trees are cut down, 48 trees must be planted. If Mrs. Dye plans to cut down 5 trees on her property, how many trees must she have planted in the neighborhood?
What is 30 trees?
Genesis is working on a mural. She is making green paint by mixing yellow and blue. The ratio of yellow paint to blue paint is 7:4. Genesis uses 9 more cups of yellow paint than blue paint. How many cups of green pain does Genesis make?
What is 33 cups of Green paint?
Kyla's class packs lunches for the local shelter. They make the same number of sandwiches each minute. In 5 minutes, the class makes 20 sandwiches. How many sandwiches does the class make in 1 hour? (there are 60 minutes in 1 hour)
What is 240?