Real World Ratios
For every boy that enters the sixth grade dance, three girls enter. What is the ratio of boys to girls that enter the dance in simplest form?
1:3
12 flowers cost $12. How much do 25 flowers cost? $25
$25
What is the ratio of 4:10 in simplest form?
2:5
At a party store, there are 14 red balloons and 16 blue balloons. What is the ratio of blue balloons to red balloons in simplest form?
8:7
If 4 packs of soda cost $10, how much do 2 packs of soda cost?
$5
What is the ratio, 12:15, when it is quadrupled.
48:60
There are six people in a family. The ratio of boys to girls in that family is 1:2. How many boys are in the family? How many girls?
2 boys, 4 girls
If 5 packs of soda costs $12, how much does one pack cost.
$2.40
What is the ratio 6:7 doubled, tripled and quadrupled?
12:14, 18:21, 24:28
In a flower shop 4 roses, 8 tulips, and 6 sunflowers come in shipments of one. Right now there are two shipments of flowers in. What would be the ratio for the roses, to the sunflowers, to the tulips if the store got another shipment of flowers? Record your answer in simplest form?
2:3:4
Tyler can swim 7 miles in 45 minutes. How far can he swim in 135 minutes?
35 miles
Is the ratio x:521 in simplest form?
Yes
There is $108 in a store. A ratio for the amount of money they made in the morning to the amount in the afternoon was 12:15. How much money was made in the morning? How much was made in the afternoon?
$48 in the morning, and $60 in the afternoon
Alex can sprint 500 meters in 2.5 minutes. What is his unit rate?
200 meters a minute
The ratio x:y is equal to 20 when x and y are added, then quadrupled. What is the ratio?
3:2
A bus passes a bus stop every 90 minutes. A taxi cab passes the same bus stop every 60 minutes. The bus and the taxi cab leave the stop at 7:00 AM. When will the taxi cab and the bus get to that same bus stop again at the same time?