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Question 1: For each of the following, write down the ratio of red squares to green circles.
Give your ratios in their simplest forms.
(a) (b) (c)
Question 2: Simplify the following ratios
(a) 4 : 6 (b) 14 : 8 (c) 15 : 10 (d) 6 : 15
(e) 30 : 10 (f) 12 : 16 (g) 6 : 18 (h) 45 : 10
(i) 12 : 28 (j) 24 : 36 (k) 25 : 60 (l) 27 : 63
(m) 48 : 60 (n) 120 : 260 (o) 8000 : 75 (p) 33 : 121
(q) 2.5 : 4.5 (r) 1.5 : 20 (s) 6 : 1.2 (t) 2.25 : 4.95
Question 3: Write the following as ratios in their simplest forms.
(a) £4 to £20 (b) 240cm to 400cm (c) 50 minutes to 20 minutes
(d) 60kg to 72kg (e) 12 miles to 30 miles (f) 15cm to 75cm
(g) 8.5g to 3.5g (h) £0.50 to £20 (i) 1.02 litres to 0.74 litres
Question 4: Write the following as ratios in their simplest forms.
(a) 8 days to 2 weeks (b) 1 hour to 15 minutes (c) 2 hours to 1 day
(d) 95p to £3.00 (e) 400m to 1.5km (f) 15kg to 900g
(g) 4500ml to 2 litres (h) 8km to 50mm (i) 90 minutes to 2 days
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SIMPLIFYING RATIOS Ref: G311. 1F1
A1 Simplify the ratio 4 : 8 A2 Simplify the ratio 2 : 10 A3 Simplify the ratio 10 : 15 A4 Simplify the ratio 9 : 15
B1 Simplify the ratio 14 : 7 B2 Simplify the ratio 12 : 3 B3 Simplify the ratio 20 : 8 B4 Simplify the ratio 20 : 15
C1 Simplify the ratio 3 : 9 : 6 C2 Simplify the ratio 20 : 5 : 15 C3 Simplify the ratio 12 : 30 : 18 C4 Simplify the ratio 12 : 6 : 9 : 15
D1 Write £20 : £30 as a ratio in its D2 Write £30 : £12 as a ratio in its D3 Write 24 cm : 16 cm as a ratio in D4 Write 36 hours : 45 hours as a
simplest form. simplest form. its simplest form. ratio in its simplest form.
E1 Write £2.00 : £1.50 as a ratio in E2 Write 60p : £3.00 as a ratio in its E3 Write 60 cm : 2 metres as a ratio E4 Write 40 min : 2 hours as a ratio
its simplest form. simplest form. in its simplest form. in its simplest form.
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Question 1:
(a) Share £20 in the ratio 2:3 (b) Share 15cm in the ratio 1:2
(c) Divide £24 in the ratio 1:3 (d) Share 35 sweets in the ratio 4:3
(e) Divide 55g in the ratio 3:2 (f) Divide 54kg in the ratio 1:5
(g) Share £210 in the ratio 2:5 (h) Share 120 hours in the ratio 5:7
(i) Share 350m in the ratio 3:7 (j) Divide 360° in the ratio 1:4
Question 2:
(a) Share £104 in the ratio 3:5 (b) Divide 161 miles in the ratio 6:1
(c) Divide 315ml in the ratio 2:7 (d) Share $650 in the ratio 4:9
(e) Share £800 in the ratio 11:14 (f) Share 1200kg in the ratio 3:37
(g) Divide €510 in the ratio 13:2 (h) Share 1116mm in the ratio 1:8
Question 3:
(a) Share £40 in the ratio [Link] (b) Divide 63ml in the ratio [Link]
(c) Share 88p in the ratio [Link] (d) Share 180° in the ratio [Link]
(e) Divide $165 in the ratio [Link] (f) Share 720cm in the ratio [Link]
Question 4:
(a) Share 1km in the ratio 2:3 (b) Divide 2m in the ratio 9:1
(c) Divide 1 day in the ratio 1:2 (d) Share 4 minutes in the ratio 2:3
(e) Share £6 in the ratio 1:4 (f) Share €12 in the ratio 7:17
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Question 5: Work out each of the following. You may use a calculator
(a) Share 10ml in the ratio 1:3 (b) Divide 17g in the ratio 2:3
(c) Divide 345ml in the ratio 3:5 (d) Divide £260 in the ratio 5:11
(e) Share 58° in the ratio 2:7 (f) Share 880 seconds in the ratio [Link]
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Question 1: Ed has 30 sweets.
The ratio of red sweets to yellow sweets is 2:3
How many red sweets does Ed have?
Question 2: Liam and Nathan share £60 in the ratio 1:3
How much money does each man receive?
Question 3: The ratio of adults to children at a cricket match is 7:3.
There 150 people at the match.
How many children attended the cricket match?
Question 4: Mark is making concrete.
Concrete is made by mixing cement, sand and gravel in the ratio [Link].
Mark wants to make 300kg of concrete.
(a) How much cement does Mark need?
(b) How much sand does Mark need?
(c) How much gravel does Mark need?
Question 5: The angles in a triangle are in the ratio [Link]
(a) Find the size of each angle
(b) What type of triangle is it?
Question 6: Dorothy has green and blue beads in the ratio 1:4
Dorothy has 80 beads.
(a) How many blue beads does she have?
(b) What fraction of the beads are green?
(c) What percentage of the beads are blue?
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Question 7: The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 2:3
Ben says there are 28 students in the class.
(a) Explain why Ben must be wrong
(b) Write down a possible number of students in the class
Question 8: At a football match, the ratio of children to adults is 2:7
There are 2700 people in the crowd.
Each adult ticket is £8
Each child ticket costs £3 less than an adult ticket.
Work out the total money made from ticket sales.
Question 9: In a school, all students study one language, French or Spanish.
The ratio of girls to boys in Year 11 is 4:3
¾ of the boys study French
There are 168 students in Year 11.
How many of the boys study Spanish?
Question 10: In a school election there were four candidates: Tom, Rebecca, Olly and Wendy.
540 students voted in the election.
5% of the votes were for Tom
of the votes were for Rebecca
The ratio of the number of votes for Olly to the number of votes to Wendy was 1:2
How many votes were for Wendy?
Question 11: A drink is made by mixing orange juice and lemonade in the ratio 1:4
Lemonade costs 80p per litre
Orange juice costs £1.20 per litre
Work out the cost of making 3 litres of the drink.
Question 12: Hannah baked some chocolate, strawberry and vanilla cupcakes.
She baked four times as many chocolate as strawberry cupcakes.
She baked three times as many chocolate as vanilla cupcakes.
Altogether Hannah made 152 cupcakes.
How many cupcakes of each dlavour did Hannah make?
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Question 13: In a car park the ratio of white cars to black cars is 2:7
The ratio of white cars to red cars is 3:11
Altogether there are 343 white, black and red cars.
How many black cars are in the car park?
Question 14: At a holiday park, guests either stay in a caravan or in a tent.
In 2017 there were 460 guests.
In 2017 the number of guests was 15% greater than in 2016.
The ratio, in 2016, of people staying in a caravan to staying in a tent was 5:3.
How many guests stayed in caravans in 2016?
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Ratio and Proportion Worksheet (1)
Write the correct answer:
1. Beef must be cooked for 30 minutes for every 1kg. How long would it take to cook:
2 kgs? __________
4 kgs? __________
6 kgs? __________
8 kgs? __________
2. To make 1 litre of jam, I use 100 strawberries.
How many strawberries do I need to make:
2 litres? __________ 3.5 litres? __________
3. I need to collect 30 stickers. Each bag of crisps contains 3 stickers.
How many bags will I need to buy?
__________
4. The mother bear is fed 4 fish for every 2 fish that her cub is fed. How many fish
would the cub get if the mother is fed:
10 fish? __________ 20 fish? __________
5. There are 10 boys for every 30 girls at the disco.
How many boys are there if there are:
60 girls? __________ 90 girls? __________
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Ratio and Proportion Worksheet (1)
Write the correct answer:
1. In 1 week, I eat 4 ice creams. How many ice creams will I eat in:
2 weeks?
4 weeks?
5 weeks?
6 weeks?
2. For every 2 apples I buy, I get 1 banana.
For every 4 apples I buy, I will get bananas.
For every 8 apples I buy, I will get bananas.
3. Colour in 1 in every 3 circles below.
How many coloured circles in every 6?
How many coloured circles in every 15?
4. Colour in 2 squares in every 5 below.
How many coloured squares in every 10?
How many coloured squares in every 15?
Ratio and Proportion Worksheet (1)
Write the correct answer:
1. Beef must be cooked for 40 minutes for every 1kg. How long would it take to cook:
2 kgs? __________
5.5 kgs? __________
6.25 kgs? __________
8.75 kgs? __________
2. To make ¾ litre of jam, I use 45 strawberries.
How many strawberries do I need to make:
2 litres? __________ 3.5 litres? __________
3. I need to collect 66 stickers. Each bag of crisps contains 3 stickers.
How many six-pack bags will I need to buy?
__________ How many bags will be left over? __________
4. The mother bear is fed 6 fish for every 3 fish that her cub is fed. How many fish
would the cub get if the mother is fed:
18 fish? __________ 26 fish? __________
5. There are 6 boys for every 9 girls at the disco. How many boys are there if there are:
54 girls? __________ 144 girls? __________
Ratio and Proportion Worksheet (2)
Solve these problems:
1. 1:2 and 3:6 are equivalent ratios (they both have the same proportions).
Circle the 2 ratios that share the same proportions.
3:9 2:10 5:10 3:6 10:2 6:2
2. Carry on this sequence of ratios: 3:4, 6:8, 9:12, __:__, __:__
3. In my pocket I have 3 red dice and 2 plastic army men.
What is the ratio of dice to army men? __________
4. What is 5:25 in its simplest form? __________
5. On a treasure map of the school I am using 1cm for every 10m. The school is
50m wide. How wide would the school be on my treature map? __________ cm
6. I answered 2 out of every 3 questions correctly in a test. The test had 9 questions
in it altogether. How many questions did I answer correctly? __________
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Ratio and Proportion Worksheet (2)
Write the correct answer:
1. Beef must be cooked for 40 minutes for every 1kg. How long would it take to cook:
2 kgs? __________
4 kgs? __________
6 kgs? __________
8 kgs? __________
2. To make ½ litre of jam, I use 50 strawberries.
How many strawberries do I need to make:
2 litres? __________ 3 litres? __________
3. I need to collect 80 stickers. Each bag of crisps contains 4 stickers.
How many bags will I need to buy?
__________
4. The mother bear is fed 5 fish for every 2 fish that her cub is fed. How many fish
would the cub get if the mother is fed:
10 fish? __________ 20 fish? __________
5. There are 6 boys for every 9 girls at the disco. How many boys are there if there are:
27 girls? __________ 72 girls? __________
Ratio and Proportion Worksheet (2)
Solve these problems:
1. In my pirate fleet I have 3 rafts and 18 ships.
What is the ratio of rafts to ships in its simplest form? __________
2. On a map I am using, the scale is 1cm for every 10 000m. I am mapping a 55km
journey. How long would the journey be on the map? __________
3. On a test of 'Hairstyles of the Ming Dynasty', I answered 16 questions out
of every 24 correctly. There were 96 questions. How many did I get right?
__________
4. There are 28 zedonks and 56 zorses at the Zebra Zoo. What is the ratio of
zedonks to zorses in its simplest form? __________
5. In Y4, there are 24 children with black hair and 42 children with brown hair.
There are half as many children with blonde hair as there are with black hair.
What is the overall ratio of blond, black and brown hair colours in Y4 in it's
simplest form? __________
6. Balin got £1.20 pocket money and saved 40p. Thorin got £3 and saved £2.
Who saved the largest proportion of pocket money? __________
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Ratio and Proportion Worksheet (3)
Solve these problems:
1. In my pencil pot, I have 10 pens and 15 pencils.
What is the ratio of pens to pencils? __________
2. On a map I am using, the scale is 1cm for every 10km. If I am mapping a
5000km journey, how many cm is it on the map? __________
3. I answered 7 out of every 10 questions correctly in a test that has 100 questions.
How many did I answer correctly altogether? __________
4. In a zoo, there were 80 meerkats and 75 raccoons.
What is the ratio of meerkats to raccoons? __________
5. I measured my stride when walking and found it to be 80cm.
I then walked for 16m. How many strides would I have taken? __________
6. For every 2 brown haired pupils, there were 3 black haired. There were 8 brown
haired pupils. How many black haired pupils were there? __________
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Question 3: Answer the following.
1 A recipe calls for 2 cups of flour to make 24 cookies. How much flour
is needed to make 36 cookies?
2 A gardener mixes soil and sand in a ratio of 5:2 to make potting soil.
If she needs 25 kg of potting soil, how much sand does she need?
3 A scale drawing of a garden has a scale of 1 cm on the drawing
representing 5 meters in real life. If the drawing of a tree is 4 cm tall,
how tall is the tree in real life?
4 It takes 6 hours for 3 painters to paint a wall. How many hours would
it take for 5 painters to paint the same wall?
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5 To make orange juice, you mix 2 parts of orange concentrate with 5
parts of water. How much water should you mix with 4 cups of
orange concentrate?
6 A painter wants to mix red paint and white paint in a ratio of 3:7 to
make a light pink color. If she needs 60 liters of pink paint, how
much white paint does she need?
7 A fruit juice blend is made by mixing apple juice and orange juice in
a ratio of 4:3. If you want to make 35 litres of the blend, how much
orange juice do you need?
8 A model train is built using a scale of 1 cm on the model
representing 12 meters in real life. If the model train is 12 cm long,
how long is the actual train?
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9 Amy and Ben share their pocket money in a ratio of 3:5. If Amy
gets $12, how much do they have together?
10 The exchange rate between Australian Dollars (AUD) and US
Dollars (USD) is 1 AUD = 0.75 USD. If you exchange 200 AUD, how
much USD do you get?
Question 4: Answer the following.
1 A recipe for a fruit smoothie calls for a ratio of 2 parts of strawberries
to 3 parts of bananas. If you want to make 10 cups of the smoothie,
how many cups of bananas do you need?
2 The scale on a map is 1 cm on the map representing 5 km in real
life. If the distance between two towns on the map is 15 cm, what is
the actual distance between the towns?
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3 A fence that is 1.5 meters tall casts a shadow that is 4.5 meters
long. If a nearby tree casts a shadow that is 7.5 meters long, how tall
is the tree? (Hint: Try to simplify the given ratio!)
4 Emma and Liam share a collection of stamps in a ratio of 7:9. If
Emma has 28 stamps, how many stamps do they have in total?
5 The ratio of ages of two students is 4:5. If one student is 16 years
old, how old is the other student?
6 Tom and Jerry share their allowance in a ratio of 2:3. If Tom gets
$20, how much do they have together?
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7 John and Susan share a bag of candies in a ratio of 5:3. If John
has 30 candies, how many candies do they have in total?
8 In a bag of marbles, the ratio of red marbles to blue marbles is 3:5. If
there are a total of 64 marbles, how many are red?
9 A candy store sells 4 cups of candy for $12. How much would it cost
to buy 7 cups of candy?
10 The exchange rate between US Dollars and Euros is 1 USD = 0.85
EUR. If you have $120, how many Euros do you have?
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