Ratios
What are the three ways to write a ratio?
3/5 3:5 3 to 5
What does the word equivalent mean?
same value
Find the unit rate: $12 for 4 pounds
$3/ 1 pound
On my way home I travel 300 yards in 5 minutes. If I maintain the same speed all the way home, what is my average speed?
60 feet/ 1 minute
What does the word solve mean?
To answer a problem
A sentence has 5 misspelled words and 15 correctly spelled words. Find the ratio of misspelled words to correctly spelled words.
1/3
It takes 4 cups of flour for every 2 cups of sugar for a recipe. If I use 12 cups of flour, how many cups of sugar would I need?
6 cups of sugar
Find the unit rate: 40 pages in 8 days
5 pages/ 1 day
Alice lives 600 meters away from town. If it takes her 8 minutes to get to school and she was traveling at a constant speed. What is her average speed?
75 meters/ 1 minute
What is the definition of the word quantity?
The amount of something
What is the ratio of Evening Sports shows to Daytime Comedy shows
2 to 1
Mabel eats 2 cups of food every day. How many cups of food will Mabel eat in 30 days?
60 cups
Mr. Gonzalez spends $135 for 5 bags of groceries. How much does he spend per bag of groceries, if each bag costs the same?
$27/ 1 bag
Jim is 2.4 miles away from Fleet Farm. If he wants to make it in 3 hours how fast will he have to travel on foot?
0.8 miles/ 1 hour
What is the definition of the word ratio?
to compare two quantities
What is the ratio of Daytime news shows to Evening news shows?
4 to 3
Ratio Table:
Pencils: 21
Days: 3 6
42 pencils
A quarterback throws 222 yards in 6 games. How many yards does he throw in one game if he throws the same amount in each game?
37 yards/ 1 game
Ms. Terry travels by train to see famous theme parks. She travels a distance of 728 miles in 8 hours. If the train maintains a constant speed, how many miles does she travel in one hour?
91 miles/ 1 hour
What makes a unit rate a unit rate?
The bottom number is 1.
What is the ratio of Evening Shows to Daytime Shows?
7 to 6
Ratio Tables
Feet: 36
Second: 12 10
5 feet
In 9 days Walter drinks 46.8 gallons of water. How much water does Walter drink per day?
5.2 gallons/ 1 day
Russ can throw a ball 50.25 yards on a sunny day. If the ball takes 2.5 seconds to get there, what was the average speed?
20.1 yards/ 1 second
What is the definition of average speed?
How fast something is moving.