Proportion Problem

A donut shop serves plain and chocolate donuts at a ratio of 5 to 3. Based on this ratio, how many chocolate donuts will be served if there are a total of 120 donuts served?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

Ellie must mix 6 tablespoons of plant food for every 2 gallons of water. If she has 6 gallons of water, how many tablespoons of plant food should she use?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

If there are 180 non-fiction books, how many fiction books are there?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

A cake recipe calls for 1.5 cups of milk and 3 cups of flour. Seth made a mistake and used 5 cups of flour. How many cups of milk should he use to keep the proportions correct?

• 2.5 cups milk

• 1.75 cups milk

• 2 cups flour

• 2.25 cups milk

Write and solve a proportion to determine how many yards are in 63 feet.

Use the conversion that 1 yard = 3 feet.

• 180 yd

• 18.9 yd

• 189 yd

• 21 yd

A builder could get 6 sheets of sheetrock for $10. If he bought 15 sheets, how much money would he have spent? Use a double number line to solve.

• 20

• 21

• 25

• 30

At a school fundraiser for every 3 boxes of chocolate sold you earn 15 points. If you were to sell 7 boxes, how many points would you have earned?

• 35

• 33

• 31

• 30

A box of candy had 2 cherry pieces for every 4 lemon pieces. If the box had 36 cherry pieces, how many lemon pieces would there be? Solve by using a tape diagram

• 18

• 9

• 54

• 72

A recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 7 : 3. If you used 63 ounce of sugar, how many ounces of flour would you need to use? Solve by using equivalent fractions.

• 9

• 18

• 21

• 27

At the carnival, the ratio of people who won the ring toss game to lost it was 8 : 5. If 24 people won, how many people would have lost?

• 3

• 13

• 15

• 24