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Equivalent Ratios Practice Answers

The document provides exercises on using ratios, including tasks for finding equivalent ratios and solving problems involving ratios in various contexts. It includes specific scenarios such as tile patterns, triangle angles, ink mixing, necklace bead counts, and bird populations. The document is designed to help learners practice and understand the application of ratios.

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Equivalent Ratios Practice Answers

The document provides exercises on using ratios, including tasks for finding equivalent ratios and solving problems involving ratios in various contexts. It includes specific scenarios such as tile patterns, triangle angles, ink mixing, necklace bead counts, and bird populations. The document is designed to help learners practice and understand the application of ratios.

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11.

1 Using ratios

USING RATIOS

TASK 1 Equivalent ratios

Complete these equivalent ratios.

1 9 : 5 = 18 : 2 12 : 70 = :7

1
3 :3=4: 4 15 : 30 : 8 = 5 : 10 :
2

5 8 : 14 = 12 : 6 45 : 3 : =5: :8

7 2x : 7 = : 28 8 1:3:5: = : 15 : : 35

TASK 2 Using ratios

Answer these problems using ratios.

1 A bathroom tile pattern has blue, red and white tiles in the ratio 3 : 4 : 8. There are 300 tiles.
How many tiles are there of each colour?

2 The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1 : 4 : 5.


Work out the size of each angle and state the type of triangle it is.

3 Brown ink is made by mixing red, blue and green ink in the ratio 14 : 7 : 2.
A batch of brown ink uses 50 mL of green ink. How much red and blue ink is used?

4 A necklace has green, red, blue and pink beads in the ratio 2 : 4 : 3 : 1. There are 12 blue beads.
How many beads are on the necklace in total?

5 An aviary contains green, blue and yellow birds in the ratio 7 : 2 : 5.


There are 12 more yellow birds than blue birds.
How many birds are there of each colour?

© 2025 Cambridge University Press Chapter 11: Ratio and proportion

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