Y7 Chapter 12 REVIEW

45 marks from 45 questions

Question 1

The ratio   : 5 in its simplest form is:

1 : 

Question 2

Simplify 30 : 5

 : 1

Question 3

What is the ratio of eggplants (purple) to the total number of items?

Write the ratio in its simplest form.

 : 
Question 4

What is the ratio of green peppers to tomatoes ?

Write the ratio in its simplest form.

 : 

Question 5

In a class of 19 learners, there are 8 boys and 11 girls. What is the ratio of girls to boys?

 : 

Question 6

Mrs Robinson buys flowers for $3 per bunch and sells them for $7.50 per bunch.

What is the ratio of buying price to selling price? Give your answer in its simplest form.

 : 

Question 7

A red square has a side length of 2 cm and a blue square has side length of 5 cm.

What is the ratio of the area of the red square area to the area of the blue square?

 : 
Question 8

The area of Australia is approximately 7 670 000 km2 and the area of England is approximately
130 000 km2.

What is the simple ratio of England’s area to the area of Australia?

 : 

Question 9

6 apples have a mass of 450 g.

80 grapes have a mass of 400 g.

What is the ratio of the mass of one grape to the mass of one apple in its simplest form?

 : 

Question 10

A rectangle is 4.5 cm long and 3.6 cm wide. What is the ratio of the width to the length in its simplest
form?

 : 

Question 11

In an bird house there are:

 twice as many cockatoos as king parrots.

 three times as many king parrots as finches.

What is the ratio of finches to cockatoos?

 : 

Question 12

Write the ratio 3500 : 500 in its simplest form.

 : 
Question 13

The pie chart shows the sales of items in a toy shop.

What is the ratio of balls to books?

 : 

Question 14

This graph shows the favourite subjects of Stage 8 learners.

What is the ratio of those choosing dance to those choosing computers?

Give your answer in its simplest form.

 : 

Question 15

The ratio of blue tiles to white tiles on Jason’s floor was 5 : 9 before he replaced nine white tiles with
blue tiles. The new ratio is 13 : 15.

How many tiles are on the floor?

Question 16

$75 is to be shared in the ratio 1 : 4.

What is the value of 1 part?

Question 17

A 50 m length of pipe is cut in the ratio 3 : 2. What is the length of the longer piece?

 m

Question 18

Jamal and Layla inherited a sum of money in the ratio 3 : 2.

Complete the working to show how much Layla received if Jamal inherited $1200.

3 parts = $1200
So 1 part = $400

Layla’s 2 parts = $

Question 19

If Johan and Renee share $90 in the ratio 7 : 3, how much money will Renee have?

Question 20

Share $96 in the ratio 2 : 1.

(For marking purposes, enter the smaller amount first.)

$ and $
Question 21

Chandra and Rawad planted 80 trees on their farm.

If Chandra planted three trees for every two that Rawad planted, how many trees did Chandra plant?

Question 22

Chitra designs a garden which has 30 m2 of grass and 10 m2 of flower border.

If she enlarges her design so it covers an area of 100 m2, what is the area of grass in the new design?

 m2

Question 23

In a display at the Easter Show the ratio of apples to oranges is 4 : 7.

If there are 56 oranges, how many apples are in the display?

Question 24

Sascha and Aisha entered a story writing competition together. The entry fee was $10. Sascha paid $6
and Aisha paid the rest. They won the first prize of $25 000 and agreed to share the money according
to the ratio of their contribution to the entry fee.

How much did Aisha win?

Question 25

One number is three times another.

If the two numbers add to 56, find both numbers.

Smaller number =

Larger number =

Question 26

In one week in January it rained for two days.

In the four weeks in February, the ratio of rainy days to dry days was the same as for the week in
January.

How many days in February did it NOT rain?

 days
Question 27

The ratio of the number of marbles in the red bag to the number in the blue bag was 3 : 5.

Two marbles were moved from the blue bag to the red bag, making the ratio 7 : 9.

How many marbles are there in total?

Question 28

Two bags each contain 42 coins. The ratio of 5 cents to 10 cents in the first bag is 2 : 5 and in the
second bag is 2 : 1.

How much money is there altogether in both bags?

Question 29

In a group of 514 people, the number of people wearing red shoes compared with the number of
people wearing blue shoes is 3 : 7.

If 24 of the people are wearing neither red nor blue shoes, how many people in the group are wearing
red shoes?
Question 30

Ben is painting one wall in his bedroom. He decides to paint the bottom 40% of the wall blue and the
rest white.

His bedroom wall is 3 m high.

How high up the wall will the top of the blue paint be in centimetres?

 cm

Question 31

There are three people in each tent at a campsite.

If there are five tents, how many people are there?

people

Question 32

In a car park, there are four cars for every motorcycle. If there are nine motorcycles, how many cars
are there?

cars

Question 33

Four identical packets of sugar have a mass of 20 grams.

Find the mass of two of these packets of sugar.

Question 34

Five identical bottles hold 150 ml of cream.

How many of these bottles are needed to hold 300 ml of cream?

bottles
Question 35

A recipe to make 6 pancakes uses 60g of flour.

How much flour is needed to make 18 pancakes?

g flour

Question 36

7 minibuses are needed to transport 105 people. There are no empty seats. For a different journey,
only 5 of the minibuses are available.

What is the maximum number of people that can be transported?

 people

Question 37

Each bag contains 5 red counters and 11 blue counters.

7 bags are opened. The counters are put together in a pile.

How many more blue counters are there than red counters?

Question 38

A recipe uses 500 g of butter and 220 g of sugar.

If you follow the recipe but only use 55 g of sugar, how much butter will you need to use?

Question 39

A scaffold tower with 5 floors is 15 m high.

How high is a scaffold tower with 8 floors?

m
Question 40

On a bus tour, the ratio of men to women is 2 : 5.

Select all the correct statements:

 a. There must be 2 men and 5 women on the bus.  b. For every man there are 2  women.

 c. There could be 10 men and 25 women on the bus.

 d. There are more men than women on this bus.

Question 41

Sascha and Ana shared the cost of the entry fee for a storytelling competition in the ratio 3 : 2.

They won a prize and shared the prize using the same ratio. Ana won $1650.

How much did Sascha win?

Question 42

On a map, Westdale is 24 mm from Springwood.

If the scale of the map is 1 : 20 000 000, what is the real distance?

Give your answer in kilometres.

 km

Question 43

The ratio of male to female rabbits in a population is 5 : 3.

Which of these could NOT be the size of the total population?

a. 24
b. 88
c. 150
d. 600
Question 44

The ratio of apples to oranges is 1 : 3.

The ratio of oranges to bananas is 1 : 5

What is the ratio of apples to bananas?

Give your answer in its simplest form.

Question 45

The ratio of adults to children in an audience is 8 : 9.

If there are 936 children, what is the total size of the audience?