Proportions
The basketball concession stand sold 327 drinks in two games. How many drinks will be sold for 10 games?
1,635
Andrew knows that five pounds of turkey will feed eight people. At this rate, if Andrew is having 20 people over to his house for dinner, how many pounds of turkey will he need?
12.5 lbs
Helen walks to school 3.2 kilometers every morning. If a map of Alexandria uses a scale where 1 in represents 2 km, what distance on the map will represent the distance she walks to school every morning?
1.6 inches
Arrange the following in order from least to greatest:
3/4, 5/8, −1/2, 2/3,−3/4
-3/4, -1/2, 5/8, 2/3, 3/4
In a random survey, 24 out of 150 people were able to give a correct answer to the question asked. If 550 people are surveyed, about how many would be expected to answer the question correctly?
88 people
Jordan is making a scale model of his favorite car. The actual car is 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. If Jordan wants his model to be 12 inches in length, what will be the width of his model?
6 inches
Tavaris wants to visit a friend in Maryland and has checked a map with a scale of 1/2 inch = 3 miles. If Tavaris measures the distance on the map from his house to his friend's house as 3 and 1/8 inches, how many miles away is his friends house?
18 and 3/4 miles
Lily wants to buy a jacket that originally costs $80. The store is offering a 25% discount on the jacket. How much will Lily pay for the jacket?
$60
A bottle of liquid dog vitamins indicates that a dog gets 2 drops of vitamins each day for every 5 pounds of body weight. How many drops of vitamins should a 35-pound dog get each day?
14 drops
A tree casts a shadow 9 meters long. At the same time, a building 54 meters tall casts a shadow 21 meters long. To the nearest meter, what is the height of the tree?
23 meters
On a map, the distance between Milvale and Dracut is 1 1/4 inches. If the map uses a scale of 1/4 inch represents 1 mile, what is the actual distance in miles from Milvale to Dracut?
5 miles
Sarah bought a pair of shoes that were on sale. The shoes were discounted by 20%, and she paid $48 for them. What was the original price of the shoes before the discount?
$60
On a certain map, 1/2 inch represents 75 miles. If the distance between two towns on this map is 2 and 1/4 inches, what is the actual distance between the two towns?
337.5 miles
Sammy used 5 yards of fabric to make 2 football uniforms. How many yards of fabric would he need to make 24 more uniforms?
60 yards
Diego is building a 1:35 scale model of a spaceship. If the height of his model is 18 inches, what is the height of the real spaceship?
630 inches
Arrange the following from least to greatest:
4, 7/2, -3.5, −1, 2.75, −3/4
-3.5, -1, -3/4, 2.75, 7/2, 4
At the same time that a 60-foot tall building casts a shadow that is 24 feet long, a nearby tree casts a shadow that is 18 feet long. What is the height of the tree?
45 feet tall
Rachel's dogs ate 42 pounds of food during July. At that rate, how many days would a 100-pound bag of dog food would last? (to the nearest day)
74
John would like to take a trip to escape the cold weather. He knows the distance between Alexandria, VA and Orlando, Florida is 840 miles. The distance between the two cities on the map he is using is 10.5 inches. What is the scale of the map he is using?
1in : 80 miles
If you need 2/3 cups of sugar to make 3 dozen cookies, how much sugar will you need to make 1 dozen cookies?
2/9 cups