Grade 6

Ratio and Proportion

Answer the questions

(1) Tereza's grandparents live 345 km away from her house. When Tereza wants to visit them, she travels
105 km of the distance through a bus and the rest by train. What is the ratio of the distance Tereza
travels by bus to the distance she travels by train?
(2) The width of a rectangle is 33 cm and its length is 27 cm. What is the ratio of the width to the
perimeter?
(3) If, the cost of 13 kg corn is €323.05, then how many kg corn can be purchased with €745.5?
(4) The ratio of the weight of Max to that of his friend Artur is 5:9. Artur goes on a diet and loses 4 kg and
now the ratio of their weights is 5:7. How much does Artur weigh now?
(5) We can cut 9 pieces of equal length from a string of 47.25 meters. How much long string will we need
to get 26 pieces of the same length?
(6) Richard gets a salary of €14500 every month and he spends €10500 out of that. What is the ratio of the
money which he saves to the salary he gets?
(7) There are three possible modes of transportation in a state. We can travel by river, by road, or by rail.
The state has 2750 km of river, 5720 km of road, and 9570 km of rail. Taking the three ratios (distance
covered by the networks of river:road, road:rail, and river:rail), what is the value of the highest
consequent?
(8) To write a ratio in its simplest form, what number should be used to divide both the antecedent and the
consequent?
(9) If the width of a rectangle is 50 cm and the perimeter of the rectangle is 2.68 m, then what is the ratio of
the width of the rectangle to its length?
(10) If we have to divide €980 into three proportional shares with the ratio of 4:3:7, then what will be the
value of the largest share?
(11) What is the ratio of the lengths of any two sides of an equilateral triangle?
(12) Ruslan gets a salary of €36250 while Paulina gets €23200 more per month. What is the ratio of the
salary of Ruslan and Paulina?
(13) In a test that Kamila wrote, the ratio of the right answers to the wrong answers that she got is 11:7. If,
she got 35 answers wrong, then how many right answers did she get?
(14) If the weight of 15 boxes of cashewnuts is 37.5 kg, then what will be the weight of 43 boxes?

Fill in the blanks

(15) Find the simplified ratio of the following:

A) 24:93 = : B) 24:150 = : C) 10:24 = :

D) E) F)
28:203 = : 14:18 = : 36:174 = :