RATIO WORD PROBLEMS
In a small business, 40 of the employees are men and 30 of the employees are women. What is the ratio of men to women to total employees?
What is 40: 30: 70?
A jar is filled with pennies and nickels has a ration 5 pennies to 3 nickels. If there are 30 nickels in the jar, how many total are there?
What is 80 coins (50 pennies and 30 nickels)
Antia brings 6 dolls to her grandmothers house. These dolls represent 20% of Anitas doll collection. What is the total number of dolls in Anitas collection?
What is 30 dolls?
3(n + 6)
What is 3n + 18?
James has a board that is 3/4 ft long. He wants to cut the board into pieces that are each 1/8 foot long. How many pieces can James cut from the board?
What is 6 pieces?
There are 20 red marbles, 35 blue marbles and 50 white marbles in a bag. What is the ratio IN SIMPLEST FORM for the number of red marbles to the number of blue marbles to the total number of marbles.
What is 4: 7 : 10
Chad drove 168 miles in 3 hours. How many miles per hour did Chad drive?
What is 56 miles per hour?
Sam has an aquarium that holds exactly 200 gallons of water. He plans to put tropical fish in it. He will buy 5 tropical fish for every 10 gallons of water in the aquarium. What is the total number of tropical fish Sam will have?
What is 100 tropical fish?
2x + 2 + x + 4
What is 3x + 6
A group of hikers buy 8 bags of mixed nuts. Each bag contains 3 1/2 cups of mixed nuts. They share the nuts evenly among 12 hikers. How many cups of mixed nuts will each hiker receive?
What is 2 1/3 cups?
There are 600 pupils in a school. There are 3 boys for every 5 girls in this school. How many girls and how many boys are in this school?
What is 375 girls and 225 boys
Thomas buys a case of bottled water. A case contains 36 bottles of water and cost 4.69. Thomas will sell each bottle of water for $0.75 at a school event. How much profit, in dollars, will Thomas earn if he sells all of the bottles of water?
What is $22.31
Mike has 30 old video games for sell at his moms garage sale. If he sells 40% of his video games for $5.00 each, how much money will he profit in dollars?
4(s + 6) - (s - 6)
The area of a rectangular patio is 5 5/8 square yards, and its' length is 1 1/2 yards. What is the patio's width in yards?
What is 3 3/4 yards?
A class of 25 students share a class set of 100 markers. On a day where 5 students are absent what is the ratio of students to markers IN SIMPLEST FORM?
What is 1 : 5 ?
Mike drove 168 miles at a rate of 56mph. It took him 3hrs. He then drove 672 more miles at the same rate. How long will it take Chad to drive the 672 miles?
What is 12 hours?
The number of red dresses a designer makes each day is 25% of the total number of dresses she makes. If she makes 60 red dresses Monday, What is the total number of dresses she made on Monday?
What is 240 total dresses?
Marshall took $36.75 to a fair. Each ride ticket cost x dollars. Marshall bought 3 tickets. Write an expression that represents the amount of money, in dollars, that Marshall had after he bought the tickets?
What is 36.75 - 3(x) ?
33.8/32.5 =
What is 1.04?
Hank bought 5 meters of ribbon for $4. What is the cost of ribbon per millimeters
What is $0.0008
Kate drove 308 miles before needing to stop and get gas. She used 11 gallons of gas. How many miles per gallon does Kates car get?
What is 28 miles per gallon?
The number of
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In a certain room, there are 28 women and 21 men. Write an equation that represents the relationship of men(m) to women(w) where (m) is the independent variable.
What is:
m= 3/4 (w) ?
Place these fractions in order from least to greatest
-2/3, 7/8, -4/5, 7/10, -4/3
-4/3, -4/5, -2/3, 7/10, 7/8