Form 1

Chapter 4 Ratio , Rates , and Proportions

Ratio of Two Quantities
A Write the following pairs of quantities in the form of
m
(i) m : n (ii) n

1.(a) 13 : 21 (b) 37 : 42 (c) 21 : 4 (d) 32 :15

(i) (i) (i) (i)

(ii) (ii) (ii) (ii)

2.a) 17kg and 25kg (b) 12kg and 19 kg (c) 59km and (d) 79 hours and
72km 15 hours

(i) (i) (i)

(i)

(ii) (ii) (ii)

(ii)
 B Determine wheather the following pairs of ratios are equivalent.

1. (a) 3 : 4 and 12 : 16 (b) 3 : 5 and 15 : 25 (c) 6 : 5 and 18 :15

2 6 4 8 3 12
2. (a) 7 and 21 (b) 9 and 18 (c) 8 and 32
C Simplify each of the following ratios to its lowest terms

1. (a) 200 :350 = (b) 150 : 180 = (c) 360 : 540 =

2. (a) 300 : 210 = (b) 400 : 200 = (c) 550 :220 =

3 5 4 3 2 1
3. (a) 5 : 6 = (b) 5 : 4 = (c) 7 : 2 =

2 4 3 6 4 6
4. (a) 3 : 7 = (b) 5 : 7 = (c) 7 : 11 =
D State each of the following.

1. Given a : b = 12 : 7. 2. Given p : q = 15 : 8 . 3. Given u : v = 9 : 14 .

(a) b : a = (a) q : p = (a) v : u =

(b) a : a - b = (b) p : p - q = (b) v - u : v =

(c) a + b : b = (c) p + q : q = (c) v + u : v - u =

(d) 2b - a : a = (d) 3q - p : p = (d) 2u + v : 2v =

5.2 Proportion
A Determine wheather the following pairs of ratio are proportion .

1. (a) 2 : 5 and 12 : 30 2. (a) 6 : 7 and 36 : 49 3. (a) 4 : 9 and 12 : 27

(b) 5 :4 and 15 :20 (b) 8 : 5 and 40 : 25 (b) 7 : 5 and 14 :15

3 15 7 14 5 150
4. (a) 8 and 20 5. (a) 9 and 20 6. (a) 6 and 180

5 250 12 360 5 100

(b) 9 and 450 (b) 17 and 510 (b) 18 and 360
B Find the value of k for each of the following.

1. (a) 4 : 5 = 28 : k (b) 3 : 5 = 27 : k (c) 7 : 6 = 35 : k

2. (a) 8 : 3 = k : 12 (b) 9 : 4 = k : 24 (c) 12 : 7 = k : 21

3. (a) k : 4 = 21 : 28 (b) k : 6 = 45 : 30 (c) k : 9 = 10 : 3

4. (a) 27 : k = 9 : 2 (b) 42 : k = 7 : 8 (c) 10 : k = 5 : 14

C Find the quantity of P for each of the following.

1. Given P : Q = 3 : 7 and 2. Given P : Q = 5 : 9 and 3. Given P : Q = 7 : 5 and

quantity of Q is 14. quantity of Q is 27. quantity of Q is 20.

D Find the quantity of Q for each of the following.

1. Given P : Q = 6 : 5 and 2. Given P : Q = 2 : 13 and 3. Given P : Q = 4 : 3 and

total quantity of P and total quantity of P and total quantity of P and
Q is 22. Q is 45. Q is 42.

E Find the total quantity of P and Q for each of the following .

1. Given P : Q = 7 : 8 and 2. Given P : Q = 9 : 10 and 3. Given P : Q = 12 : 5 and

quantity of P is 28 quantity of P is 45. quantity of Q is 60.
F Find the total quantity of P and Q for each of the following.

1. Given P : Q = 8 : 3 and 2. Given P and Q = 9 : 4 3. Given P and Q = 2 : 5

the difference in and the difference in and the difference in
quantities between quantities between quantities between
P and Q is 55. P and Q is 80. P and Q is 18.

G Find the quantity of P for each of the following.

1. Given P : Q = 7 : 4 and 2. Given P : Q = 10 : 7 and 3. Given P : Q = 5 : 13 and

the difference in the difference in the difference in
quantities between quantities between quantities between
P and Q is 21. P and Q is 9. P and Q is 24.

H Find the difference in quantities between P and Q for each of the

following.

1. Given P : Q = 7 : 2 and 2. Given P : Q = 10 : 7 and 3. Given P : Q = 5 : 8 and

total quantity of P and total quantity of P and total quantity of P and
Q is 36. Q is 34. Q is 39.
I Solve each of the problems.
1. A machine packs blue pens and red
pens in the ratio of 3 : 1 . If the
number of blue pens in a packet is 15
, find the number of red pens.
3. A school library wants to buy
reference books and story books in
the ratio of 3 : 5 . If the library plans
to buy 40 books altogether , find the
number of reference books the
library will buy.
5. In a Mathematics test, the ratio of the 6. Mohan plans to invest in unit trust A
number of objective questions to the
number of subjective questions is 5 :
2. If there are 40 objective
questions in the test paper, find the
total number of questions.
2. A box contains several chocolate -
flavoured and orange - flavoured
sweets in the ratio of 4 : 3 . If there
are 80 chocolate - flavoured sweets
in the box , find the number of the
orange - flavoured sweets.
4. Azhar draws a rectangle with
perimeter 28 cm. Given the ratio
of the length to the breadth of the
rectangle is 2 : 5 . Find the value of
the value of the length.
and unit trust B in the ratio of 3 : 8 .
If he invests RM 6000 in unit trust A,
find the total amount he invested.
7. In a competition, the ratio of male
participants to female participants
is 7 : 5 . If there are 28 more male
participants than female participants
, find the total number of
participants.
8. Ng wants to buy a notebook
computer and a digital camera. The
ratio of the prices of notebook
computer to digital camera is 11 : 9.
If the notebook computer costs
Rm 430 more than the digital
camera, find the total amount
Ng has to pay.