RATE, RATIO AND PERCENTAGE

1. Water leaks from a pipe at a rate of 5 liters/h. How much water will leak in a week?
a. 35 liters c. 120 liters
b. 60 liters d. 840 liters
2. A plane travels 600 miles in one hour and 15 minutes, what is its average speed?
a. 8 miles per minute c. 12 miles per minute
b. 10 miles per minute d. 40 miles per minute
3. On a floor plan of a room, 3 cm represents 9 meters in the real floor. What is the scale of the plan?
a. 1:3 c. 1:100
b. 1:50 d. 1:300
4. The scale of the floor plan in an office unit is 1: 150. Find the real floor area of the office unit in square
meters if the dimensions below are given 3.2 cm and 2 cm
a. 14.4 m2 c. 144 m2
b. 16.4 m2 d. 164 m2
5. Alvin scored 45 marks correctly out of 70-mark English exam. If the passing grade is 78%, how many more
points she need in order to pass the exam?
a. 10 c. 7
b. 8 d. 5
6. A bag of fertilizer contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in the ratio 2:3:3. Find out the mass of each
component if the bag of fertilizer weighs 50 kilograms.
a. 6.25 kg : 12.5 kg : 12.5kg c. 12.5 kg : 18.75 kg : 18.75 kg
b. 6.25 kg : 12.5 kg : 18.75 kg d. 18.75 kg : 18.75 kg : 12.5 kg
7. Mrs. Jones bakes a fruit cake using raisins, currants and dates in the ratio 4:5:3. The total mass of the three
ingredients is 4.8 kilograms. Calculate the mass of the raisins.
a. 0.4 kg c. 1.6 kg
b. 1.4 kg d. 2.6 kg
8. The lengths of the sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 1:2:4. Find the length of each side if the triangle has
a perimeter of 21 meters.
a. 3 m, 6 m, 12 m c. 4 m, 6 m, 11m
b. 3 m, 8 m, 10 m d. 4 m, 8 m, 12 m
9. Albert, Athena and Ashly have some sweets with the ratio of 5:3:2, respectively. If the sum of the sweets of
Albert and Athena is 64, find the number of sweets Ashly has.
a. 7 c. 16
b. 8 d. 32
10. A motor cycle has an average speed of 45 km per hour. In an opposite lane is a bicycle with an average
speed of 9000 meters per hour. Compare the speed of the motor cycle and the bicycle simplest form.
a. 3:1 c. 5:1
b. 4:3 d. 6:1

PROBLEM SOLVING QUESTIONS

1. A car travels 30 km in 40 minutes. How long would it take to travel 45 km at the same speed?
2. A clock gains 20 seconds in four days, how many seconds does it gain in two weeks?
3. A vendor sells frozen yoghurt in 250g and 100g tubs. It costs $1.75 for 250g and $80 cents for 100g. Which
is better to buy?
4. A student answered 42 items correctly. If that is 60% of the total mark. What is the total test mark?
5. What whole number such that 15% of it is 6?
6. What number is 17.5% of 960?
7. Basket A has 30% more eggs than Basket B. If 12 eggs are transferred from basket A to basket B, there will
be the same number of eggs in the two baskets. How many eggs are there in basket B?
8. A plane flies from Jakarta to Manila at an average speed of 750 km/h. If the distance between the two
capitals is 2850 km, find:
a. How long would it take to that plane to arrive in Manila Philippines?
b. Philippines is an hour ahead of Jakarta, if the plane departs at 06:45 am, what is the expected time of
arrival in Manila airport?
9. The map of North Carolina below was made for a scale of 1 cm: 75 kilometers. Find the real distance from
east to west in kilometers.