Ratios 1
Michaela has a collection of stamps and coins. The collection includes 30 stamps and 18 coins. Which of the following is the ratio of stamps to coins in simplest form?
5 stamps to 3 coins
Coach Rodriguez buys donuts for her soccer team. She plans to have 3 donuts per 2 players. If she has 12 players, how many donuts does she need?
18
A camp has 15 gallons of water that is given out to four families. Which of the following is the unit rate that this represents?
3 3/4 Gallons Per Family
Carson ran 50 yards in 8 seconds. Which of the following was Carson’s speed during this run?
6 1/4 Yards Per Second
A school is having 2.25 gallons of milk delivered in one-pint bottles. If there are 8 pints per gallon, then how many pints of milk are delivered?
18
Samantha is brewing coffee. The directions state that for every 2 scoops of coffee, use 16 ounces of water. If Samantha uses 6 scoops of coffee, how many ounces of water does she need to use?
48
A bakery got an order for 36 chocolate cupcakes and 20 vanilla cupcakes. Which of the following is the ratio of chocolate cupcakes to vanilla cupcakes in simplest form?
9 Chocolate Cupcakes and 5 Vanilla Cupcakes
A 32-pack of water was purchased for 5 people on a hiking trip. Which of the following is the unit rate that this represents?
6 2/5 Waters per person
a snail moves 20 inches in 5 hours
4 in per hour
A restaurant ordered 3.5 pounds of flour. If there are 16 ounces in a pound, then how many ounces of flour did the restaurant order?
56
If one bucket weighs 40 pounds how much would 10 buckets weigh?
400 pounds
Sadie is making punch that includes pineapple juice and lemon lime soda. Sadie uses three ounces of pineapple juice for every five ounces of lemon lime soda.
If Sadie used 33 ounces of pineapple juice, how many ounces of lemon lime soda did she use?
55 ounces of lemon lime soda
Buckets of water that all weigh the same are being loaded onto a truck. Three of the buckets weigh a total of 120 pounds. Answer the following questions based on this information.
What is the ratio of pounds to buckets? Express as a unit rate with proper units.
40 pounds per bucket
Cara ran 225 yards in 30 seconds. What is her speed?
7.5 Yards per Second
Cara ran a race that was 675 feet long in 30 seconds. Given that there are 3 feet in a yard, answer the following questions.
How many yards did Cara run?
225 Yards
A vegetable farm is planting tomatoes and peppers. For every five tomato plants, they have two pepper plants.
If the farm has a total of 100 tomato plants, how many total pepper plants does it have?
40 Pepper Plants
Teacher bought a container of dry erase markers. Some of the markers are black and some of them are different colors. The ratio of black markers to colorful markers is 6 to 5. There is a total of 55 dry erase markers in the container. Use the tape diagram below to determine how many black markers and colorful makers are in the container.
30 Black Markers
25 Colorful Markers
A printer can print 200 pages in 6 minutes. Which of the following was the rate of the printer?
33 1/3 pages per minute
Gunner picked 9 pounds of strawberries in 2 hours. How many pounds did he pick per hour?
4.5 pounds
Gunner picked 144 ounces of strawberries in 2 hours. Given that there are 16 ounces in a pound, answer the following questions.
How many pounds of strawberries did Gunner pick?
9 pounds
Jada has a coin jar that contains pennies and nickels. The ratio of pennies to nickels is 7 to 4. There is a total of 88 coins. Use the tape diagram below to determine how many pennies there are and how many nickels there are.
56 Pennies
32 Nickels
Sameer did a survey of 22 students and found that 16 preferred chocolate ice cream to vanilla ice cream while the other 6 preferred vanilla to chocolate. Sameer did an additional survey with more students and found the same ratio of those who liked chocolate to those who liked vanilla. In the larger survey, 56 students preferred chocolate ice cream. How many in this survey preferred vanilla?
21 Preferred Vanilla
Matthew bought a bottle of carpet cleaner. Each ounce of carpet cleaner can clean the same number of square feet of carpet. Six ounces of the carpet cleaner can clean 180 square feet of carpet. Answer the following questions based on this information.
What is the ratio of ounces to square feet? Express as a unit rate with proper units.
30 square feet per ounce
in 2.5 hours a car moves 130 miles
52 miles per hour
There are 16 ounces in a pound. How many pounds does a 132-ounce package weigh?
8.25 pounds