L1 Ratio and Proportion quiz

The snooker hall has given you a £40 prize for your 147 break. You decide to share it with your friend in the ratio 3:1. How much will you give your friend?

• £10

• £11

• £9

Your friend spends 10 hours a week swimming and 5 hours a week weight training. Choose the simplest way of writing this as a ratio of swimming to weight training.

• 10:5

• 5:1

• 2:1

Sessions in the swimming pool cost £10 for 5, how much will it be for 20 sessions?

• £30

• £20

• £40

A swimming pool is 20m wide and 50m long. What is the simplest ratio of the pool's width to its length?

• 1:10

• 20:50

• 2:5

The coach fare to a theme park costs £21 for 3 people, what would be the cost for 6 people?

• £42

• £63

• £140

In a theme park, the roller coaster is six times more popular than the big swingboat. How would you write this as a ratio?

• 1:6

• 6:1

• 6:6

800 children a day ride on the roller coaster, but another 200 are turned away because they're not tall enough. What proportion of the total number of children is turned away?

• Half are turned away

• One-quarter are turned away

• One-fifth are turned away

Burger meals are available in 3 sizes: regular, large, and extra-large. They are ordered in a ratio of 2:3:5. Out of 10 ordered how many are extra large?

• 3

• 5

• 2

Out of the 800 children who go on the roller coaster each day, 20 try to eat a burger during the ride. What is the simplest way of saying this as a ratio?

• 800:20

• 80:2

• 40:1

Queuing for toilets is always time-consuming. The average wait for males is 3 minutes, and for females, it's 9 minutes. Is the ratio between the waiting times 1:3?

• Yes

• No