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Ratios and Rates Worksheet

Pre-Practice (No calculators):
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1. Arrange the following from least to greatest: , 4, 0.7, 25%
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2. What is the ratio of tables and chairs in your math classroom?

3. If Mr. Gong bought 20 eggs for $5.50, what is the unit price of the eggs?

4. Write the following ratios in simplest form a) 18: 10 b) 3: 9: 21

5. What is 15% of $90?

Mandatory Practice (No calculators):

6. It takes a lot of maple sap to make 1L of maple syrup. If 480 L of sap are needed to make
12 L of syrup, how much sap is needed to make 1L of syrup?

7. The ratio of frozen concentrate to water for most juices is 1: 3. How much water and
how much concentrate are needed to make 2 L of juice?

8. Last year the Toronto Maple Leafs had a win to loss ratio of 3:5. This means for every 3
games they won, they lost 5 games. If they played a total of 82 games last season,
approximately how many games did they win?

9. Kelly can type 250 words in 5 minutes. John can type 600 words in 10 minutes. Who is
faster at typing? By how much?

10. Ms. Kueh drives at 120 km/hr on the highway to get to Kingston for a math conference.
If Kingston is 420 km from Milton. How many hours would it take for her to get there?

11. To make a nice casserole dish, flour and water must be mixed in a ratio of 2:5. If Mr.
Gong used 8 cups of flour, how many cups of water should he use?

12. The Toronto Zoo used to have 45 goats but now there are only 36 goats (some were
transferred to a different zoo). What is the percentage decrease of the number of
goats?

13. During a school field trip to Montreal, the bus travelled at 100 km/hr for the first 3
hours. Then a storm started and the bus was forced to slow down 90 km/hour. If the
total distance of the field trip is 885 km, how much longer would the bus have to travel
in the storm to get to its destination?

14. Evaluate

15. Evaluate

Answers:
1. 25% < ⅗ < 0.7 < 4

2. Answer may vary. Although usually it is in the ratio of 1 : 1 because for every table in
the room there is usually 1 chair to go with it.

3. $0.23/ egg

4. a) 9:5 b) 1: 3: 7

5. $13.5

6. 40 L of maple sap

7. 0.5 L of frozen concentrate and 1.5 L of water

8. About 30 games

9. John is faster by 10 words per minute.

10. 3 and a half hours

11. 20 cups of water

12. 20% decrease

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13. 6 hours
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14. 90 000

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