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‘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. Noro SCALE 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.

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