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Four-fifths of Mrs. Baird's students say they enjoy watching Sponge Bob Square Pants. If Mrs. Baird has 200 students, how many students enjoy this television show?
What is 160 students?
100
Mr. Anderson always keeps the ratio of pens to pencils in his 1st grade classroom at 1:4. If there are 16 pencils in his classroom, how many pens does he have?
What is 4 pens?
100
At Morgan Elementary school the ratio of boys to girls is 5 to 4. If there are 100 girls at the school, how many boys are there?
What is 125 boys?
100
Ann uses 3 bananas to make one banana cream pie. She needs to make one dozen pies for the bake sale. How many bananas will she need?
What is 36 bananas?
100
A pound of pasta feeds about 6 people. Todd sold 60 tickets for the pasta dinner fundraiser. How much pasta will be used for 60 people?
What is a 10 pounds of pasta?
200
The ratio of chocolate candy to non-chocolate candy that Vince got for Halloween was 6 to 5. If he has 60 non-chocolate candies, how many chocolate candies did he get?
What is 50 chocolate candies?
200
The owner of Randall's Convenience store noticed that for every 3 cherry lollipops sold, he sells only 1 grape lollipop. If he is planning on stocking the shelves of his store with 90 cherry lollipops, how many grape lollipops should he put on the shelves?
What is 30 grape lollipops?
200
At a bakery, the ratio of the number of pies sold to the number of cakes sold is 4 to 3. If the bakery sold 24 pies, how many cakes did it sell?
What is 18 cakes?
200
Melissa bought 6 apples for $1.20. If each apple cost the same amount, how much would 20 apples cost?
What is $4.00?
200
A farmer harvests 16 bushels of wheat from a 2-acre farm. How much wheat should the farmer expect to harvest from a 10-acre farm?
What is 80 bushels?
300
The ratio of football fans to basketball fans at DCMS is 5 to 4. If there are 100 football fans, how many basketball fans can you expect?
What is 80 basketball fans?
300
In the 6th grade choir, the ratio of boys to girls is 1 to 3. If there are 48 students in the choir, how many are boys?
What is 12 boys?
300
At Davis Middle School, the ratio of students to teachers is 20 to 1. If there are 40 teachers at school, how many students are there?
What is 800 students?
300
In a basket containing 30 apples, 2 will be too small to use to make pies. If there are 5 baskets of apples, how many can be expected to be too small for pies?
What is 10 apples?
300
Karen reads 30 pages of her book in 15 minutes. If she contiues to read at this rate, how long should it take her to read 100 pages?
What is 50 min?
400
Wanda's tuna salad recipe calls for 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise for every 1 pound of tuna fish. If she has 6 pounds of tuna fish, how many tablespoons of mayonnaise will she need?
What is 24 tablespoons of mayonnaise?
400
In a parking lot, the ratio of trucks to cars is 2 to 3. If there are 20 trucks in the parking lot, how many cars are there?
What is 30 cars?
400
Terrence makes 6 out of every 10 free throws he tries while playing basketball. How many free throws can you expect him to make out of 25 tries?
What is 15 free throws?
400
A group of 80 geese are flying south for the winter. If 30 of the geese land to rest, what fraction of the flock is still flying?
What is 5/8?
400
Seven of 10 children surveyed picked summer as their favorite season. In a school of 350 children, how many can be expected to prefer summer?
What is 245 students?
500
11 out of 15 students in Tonya's school want to go to college. Use this ratio to predict the number of students that want to go to college if there are 300 students in her school.
What is 220 students?
500
The cafeteria manager noticed that the ratio of orange juice to milk sold during breakfast was 1 to 4. Set up and solve a ratio to tell how many OJs would be sold if 32 milks were sold.
What is 8 OJs?
500
To make 6 cups of hot chocolate, Trevor uses 9 tablespoons of cocoa. How many tablespoons of cocoa should he use to make 10 cups of hot chocolate?
What is 15 tablespoons?
500
In a trail mix recipe, the ratio of almonds to raisins is 3 to 5. Which fraction represents the ratio of almonds to raisins?
What is 3/5?
500
A technician finds 3 defective light bulbs out of every 100 bulbs he tests. How many defective bulbs should the technician expect to find when he tests 500 bulbs?
What is 15 bulbs?