Year 10 F

Ratio and Fractions

Name

1 Write the ratios in simplest form.

100 : 150

2 kg : 500 g

3 marks

2 The ratio of boys to girls in a school is 3 : 2

What fraction of the students in the school is boys?

1 mark
There are 1200 students in the school.
Work out the number of girls in the school.

2 marks

The ratio of male to female adults working at the school is 4 : 5

80 male adults work at the school.
How many female adults work at the school?

2 marks
3 In a bag there are only red counters and blue counters.
3
of the counters are red.
4
Write down the ratio of red counters to blue counters.

1 mark

4 The table gives some information about the nutritional value of 100
grams of a breakfast cereal.
Amount per 100 g
Calories 350
Total fat 15 g
of which saturated fat 10 g
Carbohydrate 78 g
Salt 1.5 g

Show that,
saturated fat : other fat = 2 : 1

1 mark

How many calories are there in a 50 gram serving of the cereal?

1 mark

A box of the cereal weighs 250 grams.

How much carbohydrate is there in a box of cereal?

2 marks
5 The angles in a quadrilateral are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 : 4
Find the size of the largest angle in the quadrilateral.

2 marks

A pack of 4 tins of beans costs £2.72

A pack of 9 tins of beans costs £6.39
Which pack gives the better value for money?
Justify your answer.

2 marks
7 𝑎 and 𝑏 are integers.

𝑎 ∶ 𝑏 is equal to 5 ∶ 7
𝑏 − 𝑎 = 40

Work out the value of 𝑎 + 𝑏.

3 marks