Sharing Ratios

John and Sally share 60 pieces of candy in the ratio 2:3. How many pieces of candy does Sally get?

• 24

• 36

• 30

• 48

Tim spends and saves his salary in ratio 2:1. If Tim earns $2100 per month, how much does he spend per month?

• $300

• $700

• $1400

• $1050

A fruit punch mixture needs orange juice and cranberry juice in ratio 3:7. If I wanted to make 5L of juice, how much of each would I need?

• 1500ml orange juice, 3500ml cranberry juice

• 3500 orange juice, 1500ml cranberry juice

• 300ml orange juice, 700ml cranberry juice

• 1666ml orange juice, 714ml cranberry juice

Chris and Sarah are driving 140 miles together. They share the length of the journey in ratio 3:11. How much further does Sarah Drive?

• 8km

• 30km

• 110km

• 80km

The price of an adult and child ticket to the cinema is in the ratio 3:2. If the total cost of an adult and child ticket together costs $6.00 how much is the cost of each separately?

• Adult $3.60 Child $2.40

• Adult $3 Child $2

• Adult $5 Child $1

• Adult $2.50 Child $1.67

A fruit basket has pears, apples and strawberries in the ratio 2:3:5. If there are 30 pieces if fruit altogether, how many apples are there?

• 3

• 6

• 9

• 18

A wire is 1.6m long and is cut into two pieces in ratio 1:3. How long is the longer wire?

• 1.4m

• 1m

• 3m

• 1.2m

Share $623 into the ratio 2:4:1

• $178, $356, $89

• $200, $400, $100

• $207, $414, $106

• $165, $210, $248

People were asked which flavour of ice cream they liked the most. The ratio of people who said they liked vanilla to chocolate was 1:4. If 80 people were asked, how many more said they liked chocolate?

• 32

• 64

• 60

• 48

The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1:2:2. What are the sizes of the angles?

• 72, 144, 144

• 36, 72, 72

• 20, 40, 40

• 50, 100, 100