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5.03 Find part or whole measures with ratios

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Ratio problems
1

The ratio of people to chairs is 7:8. If there are 49 people, how many chairs are there?

2

Two kinds of pine trees, Bristlecone and Aleppo, are planted in rows. In each row the ratio of Bristlecone to Aleppo is 10:9. Altogether, 1000 Bristlecone pine trees are planted. How many Aleppo pines are planted?

3

A salad dressing is supposed to have a 5:16 ratio of vinegar to oil. If there are 13\text{ mL} of vinegar, how many millilitres of oil should be added?

4

A car and a truck are driving down the highway. Their relative speeds are in the ratio \\ 3.1:2.9. If the car is travelling at 93\text{ km/hr}, how fast is the truck travelling?

5

Avril is making a scarf that uses two materials. She wants to use the materials in the ratio of \dfrac {11}{15} \text{ m} of red for every \dfrac {3}{5} \text{ m} of green.

a

Write the simplified ratio of red material to green material.

b

If she needs 33 \text{ m} of red material, how many metres of green material will she need?

6

Quentin is making a scarf that uses two materials. He will have to use \dfrac{3}{10}\text{ m} of green material for every \dfrac{2}{5}\text{ m} of blue material.

a

Write the simplified ratio of green to blue material.

b

If he needs 15\text{ m} of green material, how many metres of blue material will he need?

7

The movement of Earth and Venus orbiting the Sun is compared. It takes the 8-Earth years and 13-Venus years to go around the sun before they are both at their starting positions.

a

Write the ratio of the number of Earth years to the number of Venus years.

b

One Earth year consists of approximately 365.25 Earth days. How many Earth days make up one Venus year? Round your answer to two decimal places.

Divide quantities in a given ratio
8

James and Emma scored goals in their netball game in the ratio 4:3.

a

Find the fraction of the goals scored by James.

b

If they scored a total of 56 goals, how many goals did James score?

c

How many goals did Emma score?

9

56 building blocks are shared between Mohamad and Isabelle in the ratio 2:5.

a

Find the fraction of the blocks Mohamad receive.

b

How many blocks does Mohamad receive?

c

How many blocks does Isabelle receive?

10

Ben always buys melons and bananas in the ratio 7:3. If he buys 30 pieces of fruit in total, how many melons did he buy?

11

\$15 is shared between Eileen and Luke in the ratio 7:3. How much money does each get?

12

James and Sophia share \$880 in the ratio 2:9.

a

How much money does James get?

b

How much money does Sophia get?

13

The ratio of adults to children on a train is 2:7. The train is carrying 360 passengers.

a

How many adults are on the train?

b

How many children are on the train?

14

Neil is mixing paint to get a specific shade of orange. He wants a mix of red and yellow paint in the ratio of 3\dfrac {3}{4}:6\dfrac {2}{3}.

a

Simplify the ratio.

b

How many litres of red paint will Neil need if he wants to make 75 \text{ L} of orange paint?

15

Xavier and Ursula split the cost of the groceries in the ratio 0.5:1.5. Altogether the groceries cost \$140.

a

Simplify the ratio.

b

How much did Xavier pay for the groceries?

16

The perimeter of a rectangle is 42\text{ cm} and the ratio of its length to its width is 4:3.

a

How many parts are in the ratio?

b

Find the length of the rectangle.

c

Find the width of the rectangle.

Triple ratios
17

Vanessa competed in a marathon and found that her times for the swimming, cycling and running parts were in the ratio 3:1:2. If the quickest part took 10 minutes, how many minutes did she take to complete the whole marathon?

18

The ratio of red, green and black coloured area on a dart board is 12:7:31. The area of the dart board is 150\text{ cm}^2 .

a

Find the number of ratio parts corresponding to the following:

i

Red area

ii

Green area

iii

Black area

iv

Total area

b

Find the size of a single ratio part.

c

Find the area of the following:

i

Red area

ii

Green area

iii

Black area

19

A piece of rope is cut into three lengths in the ratio 3:4:8. The shortest length of rope is measured to be 18 \text{ m} long.

a

Find the middle length of the rope.

b

Find the longest length of the rope.

c

Find the total length of the rope.

20

The ratio of students who play badminton, football and softball is 2:5:9.

a

If there are 72 students who play softball, how many students play badminton?

b

Find the total number of students who play one of these sports.

21

All students in a school play sport on Friday afternoons. The ratio of students who play tennis, soccer and rugby is 3:8:11.

a

If there are 55 students who play rugby, how many students play tennis?

b

How many students play sports on Friday afternoons?

22

Three siblings find 700 \text{ kg} of treasure. They split it up in the ratio 1:4:9. The youngest sibling receives the smallest portion, and the oldest sibling receives the largest.

a

How much treasure will the youngest receive?

b

How much treasure will the eldest sibling receive?

c

After some negotiation, the oldest sibling gives up one share of her treasure to her youngest sibling. Write the new ratio for the division of treasure in simplest form.

23

Roxanne is mixing red, blue and yellow paint in a container. The tub of paint is filled to 300 \text{ mL}. She remembers that she added 60 \text{ mL} of red paint and that the ratio of red to blue paint is 4:7.

a

How much blue paint did she use?

b

How much yellow paint did she use?

c

She wants to find the full ratio of red to blue to yellow paint so she can mix it again. Write the new triple ratio.

24

In a zoo the ratio of elephants to lions is 7:4.

a

Find the ratio of elephants to lions to the total number of elephants and lions.

b

Complete the following table of equivalent ratios:

ElephantstoLionstoTotal
7:4:
14::
::110
c

If there are 66 elephants and lions altogether, how many lions are there?

25

There are three planets orbiting the star Kepler-37. The planets are named Kepler-37b, Kepler-37c, and Kepler-37d. The number of times each exoplanet orbits the star before they are all at their starting positions is shown in the following table:

Planet\text{Kepler-37c}\text{Kepler-37b}\text{Kepler-37d}
Number of orbits8155
a

Write the triple ratio ratio of the number of orbits for Kepler-37b to Kepler-37c to Kepler-37d.

b

The entire cycle takes approximately 199 Earth days for all three planets to return to their starting position. How many Earth days make up one orbit of Kepler-37d?

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