Proportional Word Problems

Hamburger meat sells for $6 for every 3 pounds. If Alicia buys 10 pounds of hamburger meat, how much will she pay?

• $30

• $20

• $60

• $10

A scale drawing of a billboard uses the scale 4 cm:9 ft. The length of the billboard in the drawing is 11 cm. How long is the actual billboard?

• 13 ft

• 20.75 ft

• 24.75 ft

• 22 ft

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

The distance that an automobile travels varies directly as the time it travels. If the car travels 280 miles in 7 hours, how far will it travel in 12 hours?

• 480

• 1960

• 84

• 25

Solve for X.

• 2 ft

• 3 ft

• 4 ft

• 6 ft

Solve.

• 3

• 15

• 20

• 10

if there are 5 boys for every 7 girls in math class, how many boys are there if there are 35 girls?

• 20

• 25

• 30

• 35

A fence post that is 2 meters tall casts a shadow 5 meters long. At the same time a tree casts a shadow 108 meters. How tall is the tree?

• 33.2 meters

• 332 meters

• 43.2 meters

• 432 meters

15. The ratio of green to yellow

candies is 2:5. If there are 32

green candies, how many green

and yellow candies are there

altogether?

• 112 Candies

• 160 candies

• 80 Candies

• 16 Candies

The ratio of hot dogs to hamburgers sold

at a baseball stadium is 8:3. If 272 hot dogs were sold,

how many hamburgers were sold?

• 816 HAMBURGERS

• 102 HAMBURGERS

• 8 HAMBURGERS

• 110 HAMBURGERS