Ratio Word Problem

The ratio of boys to girls at a show is 5 to 4. If there are 32 girls, how many boys are there?

The ratio of nickels to dimes is 7 to 3. There are 42 dimes. How many nickels are there?

The ratio of boys to girls is 4 to 2. There was 48 girls. How many boys are there?

For every 10 children 4 of them wore glasses. There were 60 children. How many wore glasses?

A graph shows the number of cars sold by a dealership each month. If the ratio of cars sold in June to cars sold in July is 2:5, and 10 cars were sold in June, how many cars were sold in July?

• 15

• 20

• 25

• 30

I had 35 assignments for the week. The ratio of English assignments to the rest of the assignment was 2:3. How many assignments were NOT English?

A recipe requires 3 tablespoons of oil for every 4 cups of flour. If you use 12 cups of flour, how many tablespoons of oil will you need?

• 6 tablespoons

• 9 tablespoons

• 12 tablespoons

• 15 tablespoons

• 9:5

• 9:4

• 81

• 81/36

The ratio of flour to sugar in a cookie recipe is 2 cups to 1/2 cup. If you were going to scale down the recipe to make a half batch of cookies, how much flour and sugar would you use?

• 1 cup of flour and 1/4 cup of sugar

• 4 cups of flour and 1 cup of sugar

• 1/2 cup of flour and 1/4 cup of sugar

• 1 cup of flour and 2/4 cup of sugar

To make a certain shade of paint, you need to mix red and yellow paint in the ratio 2:3. If you have 10 liters of red paint, how many liters of yellow paint do you need?

• 10

• 15

• 20

• 25