Ratios
What is the ratio of 10 nickels to 15 dimes in simplest form?
2:3
8% of what number is 312?
3900
A car travels 60 miles in 2 hours. What is the unit rate?
30
The bus traveled 174 miles in 3 hours. How long for 348 miles?
6 hours
Paloma read 16 pages in 6 minutes. If she continues at the same rate, how many pages will she read in 18 minutes?
48
A pet shelter has 9 cats and 6 dogs.
What is the ratio of dogs to cats in simplest form?
2:3
What is 25% of 200?
50
A store sells 3 notebooks for $4.50. What is the cost per notebook?
1.50
A bus traveled 174 miles in 3 hours. Set up a proportion to find how long it takes to travel 696 miles.
3/174 = h/696
A smoothie recipe calls for 12 cups of strawberry puree and 16 cups of banana puree.
What is the simplified ratio of strawberry to banana?
3:4
A class has 18 boys and 24 girls.
Write the ratio of boys to girls in simplest form.
3:4
If a student earned 15% commission and made $450, what were total sales?
3000
Tina runs 2 miles in 15 minutes. How many miles does she run per minute?
0.133
If a car travels 180 miles in 4 hours, how far in 10 hours?
450
A class graph shows students’ favorite pets:
Dogs – 25, Cats – 15, Fish – 10.
If there are 200 students total, how many would be expected to choose dogs or cats?
160
For every 12 games the basketball team won, they lost 4.
Which fraction correctly compares the number of games lost to the number of total games played?
4:16 or 1:4
$36 represents 30% of a total. What is the total?
120
Which runner is faster if one runs 2.4 miles in 18 minutes and another runs 1.6 miles in 12 minutes?
equal speeds
A 5-quart carton of juice costs $6.40. How much for 10 quarts?
$12.80
Aiden surveyed students about their favorite music: 120 like rock, 80 like hip-hop, and 60 like country.
Based on the graph, how many of 360 total students would be expected to choose rock or hip-hop as their favorite?
200
For every 18 games the soccer team won, they lost 6.
Which fraction compares the games lost to the total games played?
6:24 or 1:4
A discount of $72 was 12% of the original price. Find the original price.
600
A theater sells 140 drinks and 70 boxes of popcorn. What is the ratio of drinks to popcorn?
2:1
CeCe used 24 inches of ribbon from a 60-inch spool. Write a fraction that represents ribbon used?
2/5
A group of students was surveyed about their favorite sport:
Basketball – 90, Soccer – 60, and Baseball – 30.
Based on this data, in a group of 360 students, how many would be expected to choose basketball or soccer as their favorite sport?
300