Reason and Proportion - Exercises
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01) Calculate the ratio of the 1st to the 2nd number in the presented pairs.
below:
30 and 50
39 and 26
c) 25 and 100
d) 124 and 494
Determine the ratio of the first to the second magnitude:
a) 52cm and 104cm
26hm and 130hm
500g and 2kg
16km and 6,400cm
In an exam, there were 180 candidates. With 60 having passed, the ratio
the ratio of the number of failures to the number of approvals is:
a) 1/2
b) 2
c) 1/3
d) 3
04) In a room with 50 students, 15 are women. Determine:
a) the ratio of the number of men to the number of women.
b) the ratio of the number of women to the total number of students.
c) Out of every 10 students, how many are men?
d) out of every 20 students, how many are women?
05) Two squares have sides of 3cm and 6cm, respectively. What is the
ratio between the surfaces (area) of the first and second square?
In a class of 40 students, 8 were failed. Determine the reason.
between
the disapprovals and the approvals.
07) Two segments measure 8 dm and 160 cm, respectively. The ratio
between the
first and the second is:
08) What is the ratio of the volumes of two cubes whose edges measure,
respectively, 2 cm and 6 cm?
The product of two inverse ratios is equal to:
10) Calculating the ratio between 60m and 120m, we find:
a) 1/2
b) 1/2 m
c) 2/1
d) 2/1 m
12) A product packed in a cardboard box has
200 g
of net weight and 250 g of gross weight. What is the ratio of net weight to
the gross weight?
13) A rectangle A has dimensions of 10 cm and 15 cm, while the
dimensions
The sides of a rectangle B are 10 cm and 20 cm. What is the ratio of the area of
rectangle A and the area of rectangle B?
In a math test, a student got 12 out of 20 questions right.
dads.
What is the reason for the number of questions he got right for the
number of questions on the exam?
15) The volume of a cube is equal to the cube of the length of its edge. What is the
the ratio between the volumes of two cubes whose edges measure 4 cm and 8 cm
respectively?
16) A soccer team has the following record during the
yes
from 1997: 30 wins, 18 draws and 12 losses. What is the reason for the number
from wins to the number of matches played?
A school has 800 m2 of built area and 1,000 m2 of free area.
A
the ratio of the constructed area to the free area is:
In a school, there are 270 girls and 180 boys. The ratio between the
the number of boys and girls is:
A male athlete jumps a distance of 8.10 m, while
a
female jumps 6.60 m. What is the ratio between the jumps?
20) If Elisa receives R$ 400 per hour and her colleague R$ 1,200, what is the ratio?
between the salaries of both?
21) Determine the ratio between the prices of a notebook and a book,
which cost, respectively, R$ 800 and R$ 3,200.
Determine the ratio of 20 to 16.
A math test has 10 questions. A student got 8 right.
of these issues. Determine:
a) The ratio of the number of questions answered correctly to the total number of questions.
b) The ratio of the number of questions that were answered incorrectly to the number of questions
that you got it right.
In a class of 50 students, 10 were failed. It asks for the ratio of
number of failures to the number of students in the class.
In my house, the built area is 120 m2 and the free area is 80.
What is the ratio of the built area to the free area?
26) Two square plots have sides of 10 m and 20 m, respectively.
What is the ratio of the area of the first land to the area of the second?
land?
The value of the ratio 96 : 48 is:
a) 2
b) 1/2
c) 76/28
d) 100/52
28) What is the ratio between Beatriz's height (height: 150 cm) and the height of
Clóvis (height: 120 cm)?
29) a and b are positive numbers and the ratio is equal to 7. Which one of them is the
greater: a or b?
30) What is the ratio between the areas of a square A with 4 cm sides and
of a square B with 8mm of
Questions of Ratio and Proportion
If (3, x, 14) and (6, 8, y) are directly proportional quantities, then
the value of x + y is:
Note: First find x, then find y
a) 20
b) 22
c) 24
28
e) 32
32) Calculate x and y knowing that (1, 2, x) and (12, y, 4) are magnitudes.
inversely proportional.
33) Divide the number 160 into three parts directly proportional to
numbers 2, 3 and 5.
34) If (2; 3; x) and (8; y; 4) are two directly proportional sequences of numbers
proportional, then:
a) x = 1 e y = 6
b) x = 2 e y = 12
c) x = 1 e y = 12
d) x = 4 e y = 2
e) x = 8 e y = 12
35) Dividing 70 into parts proportional to 2, 3, and 5, the sum of the smallest and
the majority is:
35
b) 49
c) 56
d) 42
e) 28
In a class of 40 students, 36 were approved. What is the rate of
percentage of approved?
