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Name ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Date

……………………………………………. Year 8

Review Unit 2: Ratios, Fractions, & Percentages (ch 4,5)

Define the following terms.

1. percentage

2. ratio

3. proportion

4. cross-products

5. Write the operation that the word, ‘of’, demands.

Write steps…

6. percentage 🡺 fraction 7. percentage 🡺 decimal

8. fraction 🡺 percentage 9. decimal 🡺 percentage

Express the following quantities as fractions of the other quantities. Box all final answers.
5 2
10. 9
of 45 dollars 11. 7
of 42 pence

4 2 2 1
12. 7
of 4 3
13. 3
of 2 4
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Answer the following word problems. Show ALL of your work. Box all final answers.
7 3
14. Martin was given $24. He spend 12
of it on a book and 8
of it on an album. How much did he spend on the
follow:
a. the book b. the album

2 3
15. Alison bought 1 kg of dried fruit. She used 5
of the fruit in one cake and 10
of it in a second cake. How
many grams did she use for each?
a. first cake b. second cake

16. In a test, Adam scored 27 out of a possible 40. What percentage did he score correctly?

17. Each week, a girl saves $3 of her weekly earnings. If she earns $12 per week, what percentage of her wages
does she spend?

18. List the words that signify an increase in 19. List the words that signify a decrease in
percentage. percentage.
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Completely fill in the table.

Fraction Percentage Decimal

3 75% 0. 75
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20. 21. 1. 05

22. 3 23.
3 4
%

17 24. 25.
50

26. 1 27.
2
%

28. 29. 0. 035

1 30. 31.
1 2

32. 120% 33.

Answer the following word problems. Show ALL of your work. Box all final answers.

34. Lena invests $450 for one year. If the interest

rate is 2. 5%, how much interest will she get?
35. Electricity rates at Alex’s house are 7% more
than they were last year. He paid $627. 56
last year. How much will he pay this year?

36. A shirt that originally costs $32 is on a rack value after one year of a bike that cost $2300
that reads 15% off. How much does the shirt when it was purchased?
cost now?
37. In any year, the value of a motorcycle
depreciates by 10% each year. What is the
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Find 𝑥.

38. 𝑥 : 6 = 11 : 18 39. 1 : 4 = 12 : 𝑥

Answer the following word problems. Show ALL of your work. Box all final answers.

40. A bowl of bunch is made by mixing grape juice and orange juice in the ratio 2 : 7.
a. How much grape juice is there is 3 b. How much orange juice is needed to
liters of the punch? make 12 liters of the punch?

41. In a rectangle, the ratio of length to width is

8 : 3. The length is 17 cm. What is the width?
42. The perimeter of a triangle is 28 cm and the
side lengths are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 6. What are
the lengths of each side?

43. I can buy 24 bottles of soda for $8 when I buy her to walk 5 km at the same speed? How far
in bulk. At that rate, how many bottles can I can she walk in 1 hour?
buy for $12.?
44. It takes Jessica 45 minutes to walk to work,
which is 4 km away. How long would it take
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