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WorksheetsMastering Ratios and Proportions Quiz
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
Mandy and Denise are sharing 8 apples and 12 oranges. What is the ratio of apples to oranges in its simplest form?
2:3
3:2
4:3
1:2
At a school event organized by Caleb and Penny, the ratio of boys to girls is 3:4. If there are 18 boys participating, how many girls are there?
24
21
30
27
Margaret is making a recipe that requires 3/4 cup of sugar for every dozen cookies. If she wants to make the same recipe using 6 cups of sugar, how many cookies can she make?
8 cookies
72 cookies
96 cookies
I don't know!
Which of the following represents a proportion?
32=64
21=43
85=1510
97=2014
Kara is making a recipe that requires 5 cups of flour for every x cups of sugar. If she uses 10 cups of flour, she needs 15 cups of sugar. Cross multiply to find out how many cups of sugar (x) she needs for 5 cups of flour: x5=1510
7.5
3
5
2
Nick is baking cookies and needs 2 cups of sugar for every 5 cups of flour. How much sugar does Nick need for 20 cups of flour?
8 cups
10 cups
6 cups
12 cups
Cally and Candy are buying pencils for their art class. If 4 pencils cost $1.20, how much do 10 pencils cost?
$3.00
$2.50
$3.50
$2.00
Mia is designing a rectangular garden where the ratio of the length to the width is 5:2. If the width of the garden is 6 cm, what is the length?
15 cm
12 cm
18 cm
10 cm
2.4 cm
Which of the following is an example of a real-life application of ratios?
Mixing paint colors
Calculating interest
Measuring temperature
Counting votes
Aria is planning a road trip and wants to calculate her car's fuel efficiency. If her car travels 300 miles on 10 gallons of gas, what is the ratio of miles to gallons?
30:1
1:30
3:1
1:3
30
Solve the proportion: x7=921
3
2
4
5
Amber and Nick are planning a road trip. They are using a map that has a scale of 1:100,000. If the two cities they want to visit are 3 cm apart on the map, how far apart are they in real life?
300 km
30 km
3 km
3000 km
300,000 km
If the ratio of cats to dogs in a shelter is 5:7, and there are 35 dogs, how many cats are there?
25
30
20
15
49
Jasmin and Tanya are taking care of animals in a shelter. If the ratio of cats to dogs in the shelter is 5:7, and there are 35 cats, how many dogs are there?
25
30
20
15
49
Cross multiply to solve: x9=43
12
15
10
13.5
Kara has a bag containing red and blue marbles in the ratio 2:3. If there are 20 red marbles, how many blue marbles are there?
30
25
35
40
60
Ashley and Jamie are collecting marbles. They have red and blue marbles in the ratio 2:3. If they have 100 marbles in total, how many blue marbles do they have?
30
25
35
40
60
Amber bought 5 kg of apples for $15. How much would it cost her to buy 8 kg of apples?
$24
$20
$18
$30
Tracy is making a fruit punch and uses a ratio of 8 cups of orange juice to 12 cups of pineapple juice. If she wants to make a larger batch using 18 cups of pineapple juice, how many cups of orange juice does she need to use to maintain the same ratio?
12
10
14
15
A car travels 60 miles in 1.5 hours. What is the ratio of miles to hours?
40:1
60:90
40:1.5
A factory uses a mixing machine to combine two types of metal for a custom alloy. The ratio of Aluminum to Copper in the mix is 3:2 by weight.
If the final product must contain 40 pounds of copper, how many kilograms of aluminum are needed?
(1 pound ≈ 0.4536 kilograms)
Round to the nearest whole number
20
27
30
60
Match the following with their simplified ratios.
21 chairs; 18 tables; 8 ladders; 7 lights; 14 stools
chairs : tables
7:6
lights : stools
1:2
lights : chairs
1:3
tables : ladders
9:4
stools : tables
7:9
Samuel's basketball team had a record of 16 wins and 12 losses. What was the ratio of wins to losses?
4:3
5:4
3:4
3:5
Solve for k
7/12
12/7
7
2
Solve for x
3/2
2/3
3
2
Harold and Amber are organizing a sports event. They have 15 soccer balls and 12 baseballs. Write the ratio of Soccer balls to Baseballs in its lowest term.
(a)
Jasmin is planning a small party and needs to buy balloons. The table shows the relationship between the number of balloon packs and the total cost. Find the missing value in the table.
30
20
10
40
Ashley bought 3 identical notebooks for $26.95. If she wants to buy 7 notebooks, how much would she spend?
$67.88
$59.84
$62.89
$61.75
Regina is measuring the length of a ribbon for her craft project. The ribbon measures 23.472 inches. Round the length of the ribbon to the nearest tenth.
(a)
Denise bought a piece of fabric that was 105.4271 meters long. Round the length of the fabric to the nearest hundredth of a meter.
(a)
David has 5.9 liters of paint. How many whole liters does he have if he rounds it to the nearest whole number?
(a)
Nick and Amber are sharing candies in the ratio 4:3. If Nick has 8 candies, how many candies does Amber have?
(a)
10:8 =x:10
(a)
In a community center, the ratio of participants to instructors is 20:1. If there are 400 participants, how many instructors are there?
10
20
30
40
Which is the better deal?
Doritos
$4.39 for 11.5 oz
OR
Cheetos
$2.24 for 9.75 oz
Doritos
Cheetos
Determine the ratio of the following
'30 minutes to 2 hours'
30 : 2
1 : 4
1 : 6
15 : 1
Jordyn bought 4 gallons of gasoline and it cost $16.80. What is the price per gallon?
$67.20 per gallon
I have no clue!
$3.00 per gallon
$4.20 per gallon
For Macy's birthday her mom is making her a cake. She wants to make it multiple layers so she is going to have to triple the recipe. It calls for 1 21 cups of flour. 21 cup of milk, a cup and 2 tablespoons of sugar and a pound of strawberries. If she triples the recipe how much flour will she need?
