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There are 111 sixth graders at a local town's middle school, and 47 of them play an instrument. What type of ratio is 64:47?
Part to part; 64 students that do not play any instruments to 47 students who play an instrument.
100
Write the ratio squares to circles.
3:1, 3 to 1, or 3/1
100
What is the opposite of -12.85?
12.85
100
What is the ratio of the number of lungs to the number of hearts of a normal human being?
2 lungs: 1 heart, 2 lungs to 1 heart, 2 lungs/1 heart
200
At a recent football match, there were 4,800 spectators of which 1,800 are women. Write down the ratio of male spectators to female spectators.
3,000 male spectators to 1,800 female spectators
200
Write the ratio of stars to squares.
4:2, 4 to 2, or 4/2
200
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9
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What is the ratio of the number of steering wheel to the number of tires in a car?
1:4, 1 to 4, 1/4
300
Hayden LOVES jelly beans. He collected his favorite from a bag and has 13 buttered popcorn, 11 marshmallow, 14 blueberry and 12 cotton candy. What is the ratio of marshmallow to total jellybeans? Write the ratio in 3 ways.
11 marshmallow jellybean:50 jellybean,
11 marshmallow jellybean to 50 jellybeans,
or 11 marshmallow jellybean/50 jellybean
300
Write the ratio of pink to yellow.
1:6, 1 to 6, or 1/6
300
What are the three ways we can represent ratios?
Colon form, word form, and fraction form
300
The number of legs of one bird to number of legs of three elephants.
2:12, 2 to 12, or 2/12
400
Jemima brought 10 cupcakes and Eddy brought 6 cupcakes to share for their class. What is the ratio of Jemima’s total cupcakes to Eddy’s? Is this ratio a part to part, part to whole, or whole to part ratio?
Jemima 10 to Eddy 6. Part to part ratio
400
What is the ratio of moons to suns?
6:2, 6 to 2, or 6/2
400
9.62 + 85.749
95.369
400
What is the ratio of number of sides in a circle to number of sides in a rectangle
0:4, 4 to 0, or 0/4
500
Ronaldo has a collection of 18 shark teeth. He identified them as 6 tiger shark teeth, 8 sand shark teeth, and the rest as bull shark teeth.
What does the ratio 4 : 18 represent in this situation?
4 is the amount of bull shark teeth to 18 total shark teeth.
500
Write the ratio of all the shapes to triangles.
12:4, 12 to 4, or 12/4
500
What are ratios and what are the different types of ratios?
Ratio is a comparison of two quantities. Part to part, part to whole, and whole to part.
500
What is the ratio of the number of sides of an octagon to the number of sides in a triangle?
8:3, 8 to 3, or 8/3