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Ratios and Proportions in Various Scenarios

The document contains 9 word problems involving ratios and proportional reasoning. The problems cover a variety of ratio applications including splitting amounts based on ratios, comparing ratios, and using a given ratio to determine unknown quantities.

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Ratios and Proportions in Various Scenarios

The document contains 9 word problems involving ratios and proportional reasoning. The problems cover a variety of ratio applications including splitting amounts based on ratios, comparing ratios, and using a given ratio to determine unknown quantities.

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1. The ratio of boys to girls in the sixth grade is 2:3.

a. If there are 24 boys, how many girls are there?


b. If there are 80 students, how many are girls?
c. If there are 75 students, how many more girls are there than boys?

2. There are 65 children in the sixth grade. There are 15 more boys than girls.
a. How many girls are in the class?
b. What is the ratio of boys to girls?
c. If 5 more girls joined the class, what is the ratio of boys to girls now?

3. There were 35 children and 10 adults at a cookout.


a. What is the ratio of adults to children at the cookout?
b. What is the ratio of children to total people at the cookout?
c. Five more children came to the cookout. What is the new ratio of children to
the total people?

4. The ratio of green M & M’s to yellow is 2:5.


a. If there are only green and yellow M & M’s in the bag, what is the smallest
number of M & M’s possible?
b. If there are 84 M & M’s in the bag all together, how many are green?
c. If red M & M’s were added to the bag in part (b) to get a total of 100, what is
the ratio of green to yellow to red?

5. Brian, Tim and Kenny got paid a total of €240 for mowing neighbourhood lawns.
They split the money in the ratio of 5:9:10.
a. How much less did Brian make than Tim?
b. Brian complained about making so much less. The boys decided to break up
their pay in a ratio of 3:4:5 instead. How much more does Brian make than in
part (a)?

6. The ratio of students who wear glasses to the total class is 2:5.
a. What is the ratio of students who wear glasses to those who don’t?
b. If there are 15 students who don’t wear glasses, how many students are in the
class?
c. If 5 of the students who didn’t wear glasses now do, what is the ratio of
students who wear glasses to those who don’t?
7. A rope that is 2 metres and 6cm long is cut into 3 strips in a ratio of 2:3:5.
a. How long is the longest piece?
b. How much longer is the longest piece than the shortest one?
c. What is the length of each piece if they are cut in a 1:2:3 ratio?

8. Morgan and Kira have a number of jelly beans in a ratio of 5:3. Kira and Mann
have a number of jelly beans in a ratio of 6:1.
a. What is the ratio of Morgan’s jelly beans to Mann’s?
b. If Morgan and Kira have 64 jelly beans, how many does Kira have?
c. How many does Mann have?

9. Justin is making cookies, using a recipe in which the ratio of flour to chocolate
chips to sugar is 4:2:1 for each batch.
a. If he is using 8 cups of flour how many cups of sugar does he need?
b. To make 3 batches of cookies, what is the ratio of flour to chocolate chips to
sugar?

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Let the number of girls be x. Thus, the number of boys is x + 15. Together, this means x + (x + 15) = 65. Solving for x, we get 2x + 15 = 65, thus 2x = 50, and x = 25. Therefore, there are 25 girls in the classroom.

The ratio of green to yellow is 2:5, which sums to 7 parts total. Therefore, 2/7 of the candies are green. Calculating 2/7 of 84 gives 24 green M&Ms.

For three batches, every ingredient's quantity triples, maintaining the 4:2:1 ratio. Thus, for both flour and sugar, the new ratio remains 4:1, indicating no change in the flour to sugar ratio for each batch.

The sum of the ratio parts of Morgan and Kira is 8 (5+3). Therefore, Kira, with 3 parts, has 3/8 of 64 which is 24 jelly beans.

The ratio of adults to children is calculated as the number of adults divided by the number of children. Hence, the ratio is 10 adults to 35 children, which simplifies to 2:7.

The ratio indicates that 3 parts of every 5 are students wearing glasses. If 15 students do not wear glasses, representing the 3 parts, then 5/3 * 15 = 25 total students.

The total ratio parts sum to 24 (5+9+10). Brian's share is 5/24 of €240, equaling €50. Tim's share is 9/24 of €240, equaling €90. The difference is €90 - €50 = €40. Thus, Brian earns €40 less than Tim.

Morgan to Kira is 5:3. Kira to Mann is 6:1, implying for every 1 Mann gets, Kira gets 6. Multiplying ratios, Morgan:Mann = 5/3 * 6/1 = 30/3 = 10:1.

The ratio of boys to girls is 2:3. If there are 24 boys, which corresponds to the '2' in the ratio, we have 24 = 2x. Thus, x = 12. The number of girls, represented by '3x,' is 3 * 12 = 36.

The ratio indicates 4 parts flour to 1 part sugar. Thus, the number of sugar cups for 8 flour cups is 1/4 of 8, resulting in 2 cups of sugar.

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