Simplifying Ratios
Simplify 12:4
What is 3:1?
What is an equivalent ratio to 2:3?
What is 4:6, 6:9, etc.? (Accept any correct one)
A drink mix uses juice and water in a 1:4 ratio. If you have 4 cups of water, how much juice?
What is 1 cup?
Double the ratio 3:2.
What is 6:4?
What ratio is the same as ¾?
What is 3:4?
Simplify 15:10
What is 3:2?
3 : __ = 9 : 15
What is 5?
There are boys and girls in a ratio of 3:5. If there are 15 boys, how many girls?
What is 25 girls?
Halve the ratio 10:6.
What is 5:3?
Write 0.5 as a ratio.
What is 1:2?
Simplify 50:30
What is 5:3?
Find the missing value: __ : 8 = 15 : 4
What is 30?
A dog mix uses meat and rice at 2:1. If you have 18 scoops of meat, how much rice?
What is 9 scoops?
Triple the ratio 1:4.
What is 3:12?
A car travels 150 km on 6 litres of fuel. What is the ratio km:litre?
What is 25:1?
Simplify 32:24
What is 4:3?
Find an equivalent ratio to 7:12 with a total of 57 parts.
What is 19:38?
A bag has red and yellow blocks in a 5:7 ratio. If there are 35 red, how many yellow?
What is 49 yellow?
Scale 5:15 down to its simplest form.
What is 1:3?
A class has 12 students wearing blue shirts and 16 wearing white. Write the ratio blue:white in simplest form.
What is 3:4?
Simplify 48:60
What is 4:5?
Find the missing value: x : 14 = 9 : 21
What is x = 6?
A coach packs fruit and chips in a 2:5 ratio. If he has 80 chips, how much fruit?
What is 32 fruit?
Scale 4:9 to have a total of 39 parts.
What is 12:27?
A recipe uses milk, sugar, and flour in the ratio 2:3:5. If you use 30 cups of flour, how much sugar?
What is 18 cups?