1.There are 600 pupils in a school.

The ratio of boys to girls in this school is

3:5. How many girls and how many boys are in this school?

Answer.375 girls , 225 boys:

2.There are r red marbles, b blue marbles and w white marbles in a bag.
Write the ratio of the number of blue marbles to the total number of marbles in
terms of r, b and w.

Answer.b / (r + b + w)

The perimeter of a rectangle is equal to 280 meters. The ratio of its length to
its width is 5:2. Find the area of the rectangle

Answer.4000 square meters

3.The perimeter of a rectangle is equal to 280 meters. The ratio of its length to
its width is 5:2. Find the area of the rectangle.

Answer.4000 square meters

4.The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1:3:8. Find the measures of the three
angles of this triangle.

Answer.15 degees, 45 degrees and 120 degrees

5.The measures of the two acute angles of a right triangle are in the ratio 2:7.
. What are the measures of the two angles?
Answer.20 degrees and 70 degrees

6.A jar is filled with pennies and nickels in the ratio of 5 to 3. There are 30
nickles in the jar, how many coins are there?

Answer.80 coins (pennies and nickels)

7.A rectangle field has an area of 300 square meters and a perimeter of 80
meters. What is the ratio of the length to the width of this field?

Answer.3:1
8.Express the ratio 3 2/3 : 7 1/3 in its simplest form.
Answer.1:2

9.At the start of the week a bookshop had science and art books in the ratio
2:5. By the end of the week, 20% of each type of books were sold and 2240
books of both types were unsold. How many books of each type were there at
the start of the week?
answer.800 science books and 2000 art book

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