Ratios
Unit Rates
Proportion and Scale Word Problems
Fraction, Decimals, Percents
Finding the Percent of a Number
100
What are the three ways to write a ratio?
a:b a/b a to b
100
Find the unit rate for 30 miles in 3 minutes
10 miles per minute
100
The scale on a map is that 6 inches = 4 miles. How many miles would 18 inches be?
12 miles
100
Convert 1/50 to a percent.
2%
100
Find 25% of 456
114
200
Simplify 24:16
What is 3:2
200
Find the unit rate for 12 laps in 10 minutes
1.2 laps per minute
200
Sam works as a dental hygenist and makes $50 for 5 hours of work. How much would Sam make for 25 hours of work? Set up as a PROPORTION. I need to see the proportion and answer.
$250
200
Write 16% in two other ways (fractions should be in simplest form)
4/25 and 0.16
200
70% of the students at Garfield Middle School have pets. Out of the 700 students, how many have pets?
231 students have pets
300
Are the ratios equal? 5:6 and 12:10?
No
300
Find the unit rate for $7.47 for 3 pounds
$2.49 per pound
300
For every 5 girls at Fairfield MS there are 4 boys. How many girls would be in the school if there were 48 boys?
60 girls.
300
Write 0.05 in 2 other ways (fraction should be in simplest form)
1/20 and 5%
300
Solve mentally, 20% of 80.
16
400
Simplify the ratio 411 to 321 (hint: think about the divisibility rules)
137 t0 107
400
Find the unit rate for $112.50 for 15 hours of work
$7.50 per hour
400
Use cross-product method: Mary baked a batch of 3 dozen cookies for 40 women at the women's club. Next month the women's club is expecting 60 women to attend the monthly meeting, how many cookies should Mary bake?
4.5 dozen
400
Write 7/8 as a decimal and percent.
0.875 and 87.5%
400
Today at the spirit shop, all sweatshirts are 45% off. If a sweatshirt costs $60 originally, how much would it cost after the discount?
The discount is $27...so the new price would be $33.00
500
What is the definition of a proportion?
A proportion is formed when two ratios are equal to each other.
500
Which is the better buy? $6.75 for 5 pounds or $8.00 for 6 pounds
$8.00 for 6 pounds (1.33 per pound) the other is 1.35 per pound so it is more expensive for 1 pound.
500
Murphy and Abby are trying to determine the distance between two particular cities by using a map. The map key indicates that 4.5 cm is equivalent to 75 km. If the cities are 12.7 cm apart on the map, what is the actual distance between the cities?
211.6..km
500
Alexis scored an 17.5/20 on her math test. What percent did she earn?
87.5%
500
Jack has 282 books on his bookshelf. If 1/3 of them are mysteries, how many books are mysteries?
94 books are mysteries