‘THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, DUBAL
TOPIC: RATIO AND PROPORTION
The ratios of teachers : male students ; female students in a school are 2: 17: 18.
The total number of students is 665
Find the number of teachers.
2. Mahesh and Jayraj share $72 n the ratio 7:5.
How much does Mahesh receive?
3. Antonia is making a cake.
She uses currants, raisins and sultanas in the ratio
currants : raisins: sultanas = 4:3: 5.
The total mass of the three ingredients is 3.6 kilograms.
Calculate the mass of sultanas.
4 Write, in its simplest form, the ratio
3.5 kilograms : 800 grams.
5. Ablock of cheese, of mass 8 kilograms, is cut by a machine into 500 equal slices.
(a) Calculate the mass of one slice of cheese in kilograms.
(b) Write your answer to part (a) in standard form.6 A bottle of lemonade contains 1.5 litres.
A glass holds 1/8 litre.
How many glasses can be filled from one bottle of lemonade?
7 The diagram shows the plan for a new soccer field.
The length of the pitch is 90 metres.
The ratio length : width is 5: 3.
Calculate the width of the pitch.
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8 Sima drinks 2.5 litres of water each day.
A full glass holds 125 millilitres of water.
How many full glasses of water does Sima drink each day?
9A truck uses 2.5 litres of fuel to travel 8 kilometres,
(a) How far will the truck travel on | litre of fuel?
(b) How far will the truck travel on 120 litres of fuel?
10 Chris and Roberto share $35 in the ratio 5:2.
Calculate how much Roberto receives.