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Understanding Ratios: Answers

This document contains 10 word problems involving ratios. The problems cover a variety of ratio applications including recipes, classroom supplies, games played, animals at a farm/store, and tickets/meals purchased. For each problem the student is asked to determine the ratio and/or calculate missing amounts based on a given ratio and partial data. An answer key is provided with the solution for each problem.

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Understanding Ratios: Answers

This document contains 10 word problems involving ratios. The problems cover a variety of ratio applications including recipes, classroom supplies, games played, animals at a farm/store, and tickets/meals purchased. For each problem the student is asked to determine the ratio and/or calculate missing amounts based on a given ratio and partial data. An answer key is provided with the solution for each problem.

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Understanding Ratios

Name:

Solve each problem.

Answers

1) A recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 5 : 1. If you used 35 ounce of sugar, how
many ounces of flour would you need to use?

2) A teacher had 21 red pens. If the ratio of red pens to blue pens she owned was 3 : 1, how
many pens did she have total?

3) A chess player played 20 games total. If he won 2 of the games, what is the ratio of games
he lost to games he won?

4) At a pet store the ratio of cats to dogs sold was 10 : 1. If there were 60 cats that were sold,
how many dogs were sold?

5) At a restaurant the ratio of kids meals sold to adult meals sold was 5 : 4. If there were 20
kids meals sold, what is the combined amount of kids and adult meals sold?

1.

2.

28

3.

9:1

4.

5.

36

6.

9:8

7.

27

8.

81

9.

3:2

10.

6) A student bought 34 pencils for school. If he sharpened 16 of the pencils before school,
what is his ratio of unsharpened pencils to sharpened pencils?

7) A buffet offers ranch or caesar dressing. The ratio of ranch dressing used to caesar dressing
used is 8 : 3. If the buffet uses 72 cases of ranch dressing, how many cases of caesar do
they use?
8) A student finished 72 of her homework problems in class. If the ratio of problems she
finished to problems she still had left was 8 : 1, how many homework problems did she
have total?
9) At a carnival Cody bought 15 tickets. If he used 6 tickets trying to win the ring toss game,
what is the ratio of tickets he has to tickets he's used?

10) At a farm the ratio of cows to horses was 10 : 3. If there were 20 cows at the farm, how
many horses were there?

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Understanding Ratios

Name:

Answer Key

Solve each problem.

Answers

1) A recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 5 : 1. If you used 35 ounce of sugar, how
many ounces of flour would you need to use?

2) A teacher had 21 red pens. If the ratio of red pens to blue pens she owned was 3 : 1, how
many pens did she have total?

3) A chess player played 20 games total. If he won 2 of the games, what is the ratio of games
he lost to games he won?

4) At a pet store the ratio of cats to dogs sold was 10 : 1. If there were 60 cats that were sold,
how many dogs were sold?

5) At a restaurant the ratio of kids meals sold to adult meals sold was 5 : 4. If there were 20
kids meals sold, what is the combined amount of kids and adult meals sold?

1.

2.

28

3.

9:1

4.

5.

36

6.

9:8

7.

27

8.

81

9.

3:2

10.

6) A student bought 34 pencils for school. If he sharpened 16 of the pencils before school,
what is his ratio of unsharpened pencils to sharpened pencils?

7) A buffet offers ranch or caesar dressing. The ratio of ranch dressing used to caesar dressing
used is 8 : 3. If the buffet uses 72 cases of ranch dressing, how many cases of caesar do
they use?
8) A student finished 72 of her homework problems in class. If the ratio of problems she
finished to problems she still had left was 8 : 1, how many homework problems did she
have total?
9) At a carnival Cody bought 15 tickets. If he used 6 tickets trying to win the ring toss game,
what is the ratio of tickets he has to tickets he's used?

10) At a farm the ratio of cows to horses was 10 : 3. If there were 20 cows at the farm, how
many horses were there?

Math

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Name:

Understanding Ratios
Solve each problem.

Answers

81

9:1

9:8

36

1.

27

28

3:2

2.

3.

1) A recipe called for the ratio of sugar to flour to be 5 : 1. If you used 35 ounce of sugar, how
many ounces of flour would you need to use?

4.

5.

2) A teacher had 21 red pens. If the ratio of red pens to blue pens she owned was 3 : 1, how
many pens did she have total?

3) A chess player played 20 games total. If he won 2 of the games, what is the ratio of games
he lost to games he won?

6.

7.

8.

4) At a pet store the ratio of cats to dogs sold was 10 : 1. If there were 60 cats that were sold,
how many dogs were sold?

9.

10.

5) At a restaurant the ratio of kids meals sold to adult meals sold was 5 : 4. If there were 20
kids meals sold, what is the combined amount of kids and adult meals sold?

6) A student bought 34 pencils for school. If he sharpened 16 of the pencils before school,
what is his ratio of unsharpened pencils to sharpened pencils?

7) A buffet offers ranch or caesar dressing. The ratio of ranch dressing used to caesar dressing
used is 8 : 3. If the buffet uses 72 cases of ranch dressing, how many cases of caesar do
they use?
8) A student finished 72 of her homework problems in class. If the ratio of problems she
finished to problems she still had left was 8 : 1, how many homework problems did she
have total?
9) At a carnival Cody bought 15 tickets. If he used 6 tickets trying to win the ring toss game,
what is the ratio of tickets he has to tickets he's used?

10) At a farm the ratio of cows to horses was 10 : 3. If there were 20 cows at the farm, how
many horses were there?

Math

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1-10 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10

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