Guided Notes: Proportions

1. If you know a lot about ____________ _____________, which are (look at your
notes)
______________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________. Then you already know a lot about
Proportions.
2. Equivalent fractions to

1
2

is --- , ----, and ---.

3. To know what a proportion is we need to remember what a ratio is. A ratio is

(Use your notes from last section to answer this.) ____________________.
4. If you could read one book every two days, the ratio would be -------.
5. Using the ratio above, how many books could you read in 10 days?
__________, or the ratio would be --------. Which would make this _____
_________ with

1
2

6. When we place an equal sign between the two ratios we get a ____________.
7. So a proportion is two ______ that are ____ or _____________.
8. For two ratios to be a proportion two things needs to be true
a. __________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________
9. Would the following below be a proportion? (yes / no) Why or Why not?
____________

2 apples 6 apples
=
5 bananas 15 fish

10.If the reader from above wants to know how long it would take him to read 23
books, how would we set up the proportion to figure this out? First what do
we know about this so far?

__________________________________________________________________________
11.When setting up the equivalent ratio, we need to make sure that the ____ are
in the same position.
12.Below write the proportion.

13.For solving proportions usually __ of the numbers will be known, and 1 will be
unknown. We can find the unknown by using something called
___________________.
14.Set up the cross multiplication below

15.The number of days is _____.

16.For an equation with an Unknown we need to keep rearranging the values
until we get the ________ by itself.
17.A scaled drawing is ________ or ______ than the ____________________.
18.Find the distance it is from the volcano Mauna Loa to the city of Hilo in
Hawaii. We first know that the ratio from the video is ___ cm = ___ miles. Set
this up as a fraction. -------------19.Using a ruler how long in cm is the line in the video? _______________
20.So setting the proportion we have

Miles Miles
=
cm
cm
21.Cross Multiplying we get the following

22.Finally to get the n by itself we just need to __________ both sides by

__________.
23.So the distance is ______ _______.
24.So in this video we learned that a proportion is just ________ _________.