Simplify Ratios
Simplify the ratio 4 : 2
2 : 1
There are 3 apples and 5 oranges, What is the fraction of apples compared to oranges.
The ratio of apples to bananas at a fruit shop is 1 : 2. If there are 100 apples, how many bananas are there.
200
There are 12 students in total who need to be divided in the ratio 1 : 2 . How many student are there in each group?
4 and 8
How would you measure someone's rate of pay
dollars per hour.
Simplify the ratio 2 : 6
1 : 3
There are 3 watermelons and 7 rockmelons. What fraction of the total are watermelons.
3/10
600
A school has 600 students and the ratio of boys to girls is 7 : 5. How many girls are there?
250
A windowasher cleans 60 windows in 3 hours. What is his cleaning rate in windows/hour ?
20 wph
Simplify the ratio 16 : 24
2 : 3
There are 12 cup and 15 glasses. What is the fraction of cups compared to glasses, in simplest form.
4/5
The ratio of saffron to water in a curry is 0.5 : 40
How much water is needed for 2mL of saffron.
The canteen buys carrots and cucumbers in the ratio of 4 : 3. If they are ordering 1400 vegetables how many cucumbers will they get?
600 Cucumbers
Neymar scored 11 goals in 4 matches . What is the rate he scores goals at.
2.75 goals per match
There are 360 girls in a school and 240 boys. What is the ratio of boys to girls in simplest form.
2 : 3
There are 49 foxes and 147 Kangaroos in the forest. What fraction of the forest are foxes.
1/4
The ratio of black textas to red textas used by teachers at APHS is 1 : 0.25 .
If the principal buys 40 red textas, how many black ones should she buy.
60
70 fruit are divided between three houses in the ratio 1: 4 : 9 . How many fruit does the third house get.
45 pieces of fruit
A council worker plants 423 trees in 924 hours of labor. How many trees per hour are planted to 3 decimal places.
0.458 trees per hours
Simplify the ratio 4.2 : 5.6
3 : 4
There are 33 apples, 44 oranges and 55 bananas in a box. What is the fraction of normal fruit, compared to citrus fruit, in simplest form.
2
The ratio of basketballs to soccer balls in a school should be roughly 7 : 9 . If there were 72 soccer balls, how many basketballs should there be.
56
0.005 g of Calcium Chloride is divided in the ratio of
0.1 : 0.3 between Calcium and Chlorine. How much Chlorine is there in the compound.
0.00375
A train travels between Shenzhen and Guangzhou at 360 km/hour. If the trip is 0.73 hours how many kilometers are travelled.
262.8km