Proportion Problem Real Life

Solve the proportion: If there are 10 students in one class, there would be _________ students in 5 classes.

• 5

• 50

• 10

• 55

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CCSS.7.RP.A.2A

Solve the proportion, a car that drives 100km / hour, will travel _________ km in 3 hours.

• 3

• 100

• 150

• 300

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

Allison can bake 4 cakes in one day.  How many days would it take to bake 24 cakes? Which of the following proportions can be used to solve this problem?

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CCSS.7.RP.A.2C

• multiply on the diagonal

• multiply the numbers in the second fraction

• divide each number, one by one

• add on the diagonal

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CCSS.7.RP.A.2A

Solve the following proportion (you can use a calculator if you need to). What is x equal to?

• 270

• 0.25

• 4

• 190

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CCSS.7.RP.A.2C

What is a real life example of using proportions?

• Figuring out how much laundry soap to put in the machine

• Figuring out how much medicine a small child should take

• Calculating your hourly pay on a job

• Finding the percent discount on a pair of shoes that were on sale

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CCSS.7.RP.A.3

If 65% of the people in the city have lost work this year, how many people out of 500 have lost work?

• 65

• 435

• 325

• 565

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3C

Write a proportion to solve the following problem: The ratio of red skittles to green skittles in a bag is 2:3. There are 18 green skittles. How many red skittles are there?

• not enough

• too many

• 12 red skittles

• 27 red skittles

Write a proportion and solve the following problem: Ms. Livermore is 5.5 feet tall and casts a shadow that is 16.5 feet long. At the same time Mr. Weissburg casts a shadow 18 feet long. How tall is Mr. Weissburg?

• tall enough

• 6 feet tall

• 6.5 feet tall

• taller than Ms. Livermore

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CCSS.7.RP.A.3

Find the unit rate:

A computer's fan rotates 2000 times in 40 seconds. How many rotations does it make in one second?

• 80000 rotations/second

• 50 rotations/second

• 80 rotations/second

• 20 rotations/second

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2