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List down real-life

example of partitive
proportion:
Planning
Monthly
Budget of
a
Household
.
Dividing Profit among Business
Partners.
Distribution of Goods among a
group of People.
Gender Ratio in a Class.
Dividing Party Expenses.
Partitive
proportion – a
whole is divided
into more than
two parts.
We can simply illustrate this as distributing the whole
according to the ratio required.
Forty liters of water is
transferred into 3 containers
in the ratio 1:3:4. How much
water is in each
container?
Solve the following
situation.
1. The ratio of the three sides
of a triangle is 1:2:3. what are
the measurements of each
side if the perimeter of the
triangle is 120cm?
2. The sum of ₱ 500 is divided
among three girls, Liz, Beth
and Tess in a ratio 2:3:5. What
is the share of each girl? Who
gets the biggest share?
3. The total weight of Santino,
Rico and Bong is 112 kg. Their
weights are in the ratio 3:1:4.
What is Santino’s weight? How
much heavier is Bong than
Rico?
4. A sum of money is to be
shared in the ratio 3:5:7. if
the smallest share is ₱9,
what are the other two
shares? How much money is
shared?
5. Miss Vivian cuts a rollof
ribbon into three pieces X,Y
and Z in the ratio 4:2:1. The
length of the longest piece is
28m. Find the lengths of Y and
Z.

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