Ratios Word Problems

Candidate B received 5 votes and Candidate A has 50 votes. What is the ratio of Votes for Candidate A to votes for Candidate B?

• 5/20

• 5/50

• 50/5

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2

What is the ratio of yellow marbles to total marbles?

• 4/18

• 14/4

• 4/14

• 18/4

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2

In the fruit bowl there are 4 apples, 2 bananas, and 5 pears. What is the ratio of pears to ALL fruit?

• 5:4

• 5/11

• 2:5

• 6/5

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2

A box hold 20 marbles. There are 13 green marbles and the rest are yellow. What is the ratio of yellow marbles to green marbles.

• 20 to 13

• 7 to 13

• 13 to 7

• 33 to 13

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2

Ms. Shields has 9 boys and 12 girls in her 1st block. What is the ratio of girls to total?

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2

Joseph went to a farm with 23 animals. 9 were goats, 6 were sheep, and the rest were dogs. What is the ratio of dogs to goats?

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2

Mrs. DeWater's babies are on a high calorie diet. To make their formula she has to mix a ratio of 3 scoops of powder to 5 ounces of water. If she wants to make a total of 32 ounces of formula, then how many scoops of powder will it take?

Coach Hilliard loves to drink coffee so much she drank 45 cups of coffee last week. If the ratio of pumpkin spice coffee to vanilla coffee is 3:2, then how many pumpkin spice cups of coffee did she drink?

Mrs. Hanson took her kids trick or treating. The ratio of chocolate candy to sweet candy is 3:2. If the total pieces of candy they collected was 320, then how many of those pieces of candy were chocolate?

Coach Bruce likes to collect rocks. The ratio of square to oval rocks is 3:4. If he has 28 oval rocks, how many square rocks does he have?