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1 Write these ratios in their simplest form.

a 54 : 36

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(1 mark)

b 20 minutes : 1 hour

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(1 mark)

c 4 : 3.5

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(1 mark)

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d 4 : 1
10

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(1 mark)

2 Tareq says, ‘The ratio 36 : 42 : 18 cannot be simplified’.

Is he correct? Explain your answer.

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(1 mark)

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3 A company makes chocolate bars in two sizes.

Small bars have a mass of 100 g.
Large bars have a mass of 250 g.
The company makes bars in the ratio number of small bars : number of large bars of 3 : 2.
What is the ratio by mass?
Give your answer in its simplest form.

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(2 marks)

4 A shop sells 8 pencils for £1.68

Work out the cost of 3 of these pencils.

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(1 mark)

5 It takes 180 ml of fertiliser to treat 36 m2 of lawn.

Work out how much fertiliser is needed to treat a lawn of area 40 m2.

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(2 marks)

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6 Share £200 between Alice and Brian in the ratio 3 : 5

Alice .......……………………

Brian .......……………………
(2 marks)

7 Brass can be made by mixing copper with zinc in the ratio 7 : 3 by mass.

a What mass of copper must be mixed with 2.7 kg of zinc?

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(2 marks)

b What percentage of brass is copper?

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(1 mark)

8 For a charity cake sale, Aisha baked 11 cakes, Basma baked 5 and Dalal baked 4.

Aisha claimed to have baked 55% of the cakes.

Is she correct? Show working to support your answer.

(3 marks)

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9 A supermarket sells water in two sizes.

A 4-litre bottle costs $1.04 and a 6-litre bottle costs $1.57
Which of these bottles is the better value?
You must give a reason for your answer.

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(3 marks)

10 The amount of money Yaseen spends to the amount he saves each year is in the ratio 7 : 3.

Last year he earned $12 000 and this year he earned $15 000.

How much more does Yaseen save this year than last year?

$.......……………………
(3 marks)

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11 A supermarket sells a breakfast cereal in three different sizes of box.

Calculate which size of box is the best value.

You must show working to explain your answer.

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(3 marks)

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12 It takes 10 men 8 days to build 1 km of road.

a Fahd works out that it will take 20 men working at the same rate 16 days to build 1 km of road.
Is he correct? Explain your answer.

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(1 mark)

b Nudrat claims it will take 5 men 32 days to build 2 km of road.

Is she correct? Explain your answer.

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(2 marks)

Overall mark /30

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