RATIO AND PROPORTION

1. The mass of Bags R is 10 kg and the mass of Bag S is 14 kg.

a. The ratio of the mass of R to the mass of S in the simplest form is ______________

b. The mass of S is _____/______ of the mass of R

2. Siti has some lollipops. The number of cherry lollipops she has is of the number of Cola lollipops she has.

a. The ratio of the number of Cherry Lollipops to the number of Cola lollipops Siti has is _____:_____

b. The ratio of the number of cola lollipops to the number of cherry lollipops Siti has is ______:_______

c. The number of _____ lollipops Siti has is 4 times of the number of _________ lollipops she has.

3. For every 2 bunches of red grapes packed into a carton, 3 bunches of green grapes are packed into the carton.

a. The number of bunches of red grapes in the carton is _________of the number of bunches of green

grapes in the carton

b. The ratio of the number of bunches of red grapes to the number of bunches of green grapes is

______________

4. Tims height is 4/7 of Melvins height

a. What is the ratio of Tims height to Melvins height? ______________

b. What is the ratio of Melvins height to Tims height ?_____________

c. Express Melvins height as a fraction of Tims height. ______________

5. To cook porridge , Ling uses 5 parts of water for every part of rice.

a. What is the ratio of rice used to water used in porridge?

b. The amount of water used in the porridge is ______ times as much as the amount of rice used in the

porridge

c. The amount of rice used in the porridge is ________ of the amount of water used in the porridge

d. Complete the table below

Number of cups of 5 30

water

Number of cups of 1 3 8
 rice

e. If Ling used 25 cups of water, how many cups of rice did she use? ___________

6. There are some peanuts and almonds in a packet. The proportion of peanut is 2/3 of the total number of nuts in

the pocket.

a. What proportion of nuts in the packet are almonds? ______________

b. What is the ratio of the number of almonds in the packet to the total number of nuts in the packet?

____________________

c. What is the ratio of the number of peanuts to the number of almonds in the packet? ___________

7. To make muffins, Mrs Chan mixed 3 cups of flour with every cup of milk.

a. What is the ratio of the number of cups of flour to the total number of cups of flour and

milk?__________________

b. What proportion of the mixture is milk?__________________

c. If Mrs. Chan used a total of 20 cups of flour and milk, how many cups of milk did she use? ____________

8. Sunita used these ingredients to bake a carrot cake.

Carrot 300 grams

Flour 300 grams

Butter 100 grams

Sugar 400 grams

a. What proportion of the total amount of ingredients used was the amount of sugar? ______________

b. How many grams of carrot would Sunita need for 5 carrot cakes? _________________

c. If Sunita used 300 grams of butter

i. How many grams of flour did she use? ____________________

ii. How many carrot cakes did she bake? _____________________

9. Michael placed an ant under a magnifying glass. The magnifying glass magnified the size of the ant by 8 times.

a. What is the ratio of the actual size of the ant to its magnified size? ___________

b. What fraction of the magnified ant is the actual size of the ant? ______________
10. There are 54 paintings in the Museum. The ratio of the number of sculptures to the number of paintings in the

museum is 7:9

a. Express the number of sculptures as a fraction of the number of paintings.________

b. How many sculptures are there in the museum? ________________

11. There are 3 times as many novels as comic books in the bookstore. If there are 2480 books altogether, how

many comic books are there in the bookstore? ____________________

12. The number of stamps that Ming has is 11/5 of the number of stamps that Fiona has. If Ming has 22 stamps,

how many stamps does Fiona has?

13. Clara and Sue saved some money. The proportion of Claras saving is 2/5 of their total savings.

a. Find the ratio of Sues savings to Claras savings_____________________

b. If Sue saved $60 more than Clara, how much did she save altogether? ____________

14. To make a pitcher of lemonade, Siva used 3 cups of sugar syrup to every 5 cups of lemon juice.

a. What proportion of the pitcher of lemonade was the number of cups of sugar syrup?__________

b. How many Cups of sugar syrup did Siva use if the pitcher contained 32 cups of

lemonade?________________________

15. $5 for every $20 that Benjamin and his Father donate to charity is donated by Benjamin.

a. If the total sum of money Benjamin and his father donates is $240, how much money is donated by

Benjamins father?______________________
 b. If Benjamin donates $25, how much does his father donate? _____________________

16. The scale of the map is 1 : 700. If the distance between Sun Beach and The Hedgehog Haven on the map is 9 cm,

What is the actual distance in metres?_______________________________

17. Ethan used a microscope to magnify a grain of rice. The length of the magnified rice grain is 3 cm. If the actual

length of rice grain is 2/5 of the length of magnified rice grain, What is the actual length of the rice

grain?______________________________________________

18. A piece of wire is bent to form a square and a triangle, The ratio of the perimeter of the square to the perimeter

of the triangle is 8:7 . If the length of the wire is 60 cm, What is the length of one side of the square?

_______________________

19. of the amount of money Jerry has is of the amount of money Don has.

a. Find the ratio of the amount of money Jerry has to the amount of money Don has.

b. If Jerry has $20 less than Don, how much does Don have? ____________________
20. Angela and Betty shared a bag of marshmallows. Angela got 3/11 of the marshmallows and Betty got the rest.

a. What is the ratio of the number of marshmallows Betty received to the number of marshmallows Angela

received? ______________________

b. If Betty received 15 More than Angela, how many marshmallows did Angela receive?_____________

21. 1 cm of a Gardens Plan represent 150 cm in the actual garden. If the length of the garden in the plan is 10 cm,

what is the actual length of the garden in metres? _____________________

22. 100 kg in every 310kg of biscuits a factory produces are filled with chocolate cream. The rest are filled with

vanilla cream. If the factory produced 4030 kg of biscuits last month, what was the mass of biscuits that were

filled with vanilla cream? ___________________________

23. Penny and Yati had some seashells in the ratio 5:3. After Penny gave 12 seashells to Yati, they had the same

number of seashells. How many seashells did Penny have at first? _________________________

24. 8/9 of the number of zebras in a safari park is twice as many as the number of rhinoceroses in the safari park.

a. What is the ratio of the number of Zebras to the number of Rhinoceros in the Safari Park?

________________________________

b. If there are 45 more zebras than rhinoceroses in the safari park, how many rhinoceroses are there in the

park? _____________________
25. The areas of A and B are in the ratio 5:7. The areas of B and C are in the ratio of 3: 1. What fraction of the area of

the whole circle is the area of B?