1. The ratio of the weight of Meg's cat to the weight of Anne's cat is 5 :7.
Meg's cat weighs 20 kg . How much more does Anne's cat welgh?
2. Pat the Painter mixed 3 pints of yellow paint with 4 pints of green
paint to make a sifty new color. He used 27 pints of yellow paint. How
many pints of green paint will he need?
3. The ratio of boys to girls at the basketball game is B.5. There are 30
girls. How many more boys are there than girls?
4. Craig and Brian looked for seashells. For every 9 seashells Craig
found, Brian found 7. Craig found 54 seashells. How many fewer
seashells did Brian find than Craig?
5. There are 600 pupils in a school. The ratio of boys to girls in this
school is 3 :5. How many girls and how many boys are in this school?
6. 3 of the tables at Vera's Italian Restaurant are full and the other 9
tables are empty. What is the ratio of the number of empty tables to
the number of fall tables?
7. What is the ratio of 6 minutes to 8 hours?
8. In a bag of blue and yellow candies, the ratio of blue candies to yellow
candies is 3 :5. If the bag contains 60 yellow candies, how many blue
candies are there?
9. A school has 300 students. If the ratio of boys to girls is 31 to 44 , how
many more girls are there in the school?
10.A special cereal mistare contains rice, wheat and cornt in ratio 2:3:5.
If a bag of mixtare contains 3 pounds of rice, how mach corn doesit
contain?
11.Express the ratio in simplest form: $ 10 to $ 45
12.In a certaln class, the ratio of passing grades to failing grades is 7 to 5
. How many of the 36 students failed the course?
13.In the park mentioned above, the ratio of dackas to geese is 16 to % .
How many of the 300 birds are geese?
14.A bag contains 60 marbles, some blue and some green. The ratio of
blae marbles to greets ones is 1: 5. How many hlue marbles are there?
15.A truck is carrying mango julce, tomato juice, and passion fruit juice
botdes in a rasio of 4 :4 : 3 . If there are 1020 patsion fruit julet
bottles, then how many juice bottles in total are there?
16.The ratio of girls to boys in an astronomy club was 2 :3. There were 10
girls. How masy boys were there in the club?
17.In a cookie mix, we find snickerdoodle cookies, pinwheel cookies, and
ginger cookies in a ratio of 6 : 4 :2. If a bag of the mix contalns 80
pinwheel cookies, how many cooldes in total are there?
18.A truck is carrying tomato jaice. grapefruit juice, and mango jaice
bottles in a ratio of 1 :2−3 . If there are 1026 mango fulce bottles, then
how many juice bottles in sotal are there?
19.A jar contains 1300 beans, Of them, 260 are black beans and the rest
are white beans. What is the ratio of black beans to all the beans?
20.Alyssa has 25 coins. Of the coins, 1/5 are nickels, 1/5 are dimes, and
the rest are quarters. What is the ratio of Alyssa's mickels to dimes to
quarters?
21.A kennel has 95 dogs in total, some are puppies and some are adult
dogs. The ratio of puppies to aduat dogs in a loennet is 2 :3. How many
adult dogs are there?
22.A bag contains 25 marbles, some red and some white. The ratio of red
marbles to white ones is 1:4 , How many white marbles are there?
23.Consider those ducks and geese we counted back at the park. Their
ratio was 16 ducks to 9 geese. Suppose that there are 192 ducks. How
many geese are there?
24.At a certain zoo, the ratio of sea lions to penguins is 4 to 11. If there
are 84 more penguins than sea lions at the zoo, how many sea lions
are there?
25 . Three investors, A , B , and C , divide the profits from a business
enterprise in the ratio 5 :7 :8, respectively. If investor A earned $ 3,500,
how much money did investors B and C earn in total?
25.Three investors A,B,C , divide the profits from a business enterprise in
the ratio 5:7:8, respectively. If investor A earned $3500, how much
money did investors B and C earn in total?
26.Jenny buys 15 felt-tip pens, it costs her $ 2.85. How much would 20
pens have cost?
27.Twelve pencils cost $ 0.72. Find the cost of 30 pencils.
28.A child can run 5 blocks in 2 minutes. How long does it take the child
to run 8 blocks, at the same speed?
29.Jack and Jill went up the hill to pick apples and pears. Jack picked 10
apples 15 pears and Jill picked 20 apples and some pears. The ratio of
apples to pears picked by both Jack and Jill were the same. Determine
how many pears Jill picked.
30.A sample of 96 light bulbs consisted of 4 defective ones. Assume that
today's batch of 6,000 light bulbs has the same proportion of defective
bulbs as the sample. Determine the total number of defective bulbs
made today.
31.The perimeter of a rectangle is equal to 280 meters. The ratio of its
length to its width is 5 :2. Find the area of the rectangle.
32.A sum of money is to be distributed among, D in the proportion of
5 :2 :4 :3 . If C gets Rs, 1000 more than D , what is B's share?
33.Seats for Mathematics, Physics and Biology in a school are in the ratio
5 :7 :8. There is a proposal to increase these seats by 40 % , 50 % and
75 % respectively. What will be the ratio of increased seats?
34.The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a college 7:8. If the
percentage increase in the number of boys and girls be 20% and 10%
respectively, what will be the new ratio?
35.Salaries of Ravi and Sumit are in the ratio 2 :3. If the salary of each is
increased by Rs. 4000 , the new ratio becomes 12 : 17. What is
Sumit's salary?
36.The sum of three numbers is 98 . If the ratio of the first to second is
2 :3 and that of the second to the third is 5 :8, then the second number
is:
37.If Rs. 782 be divided into three parts, proportional to 1/2 :2/3: 3/4 .
then the first part is:
38.The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1 :3: 8. Find the measures of
three angles of this triangle.
1. 8kg 20. 1:1:3
2. 36 21. 57
3. 18 boys 22. 20
4. 12 23. 108
5. 225;375 24. 48
6. 3:1 25. 10500
7. 1/80 26. $3.80
8. 36 27. $1.80
9. 52 28. 3.2
10. 7.5 29. 30
11. 2/9 30. 250
12. 15 students 31. 4000
13. 108 geese 32. 2000
14. 10 33. 2:3:4
15. 3740 34. 21:22
16. 15 35. 30000
17. 240 36. 30
18. 2052 37. 204
19. 1:5 38. 15, 45, 120