Quiz about Ratios, Rates and Proportions

Question 1

In the fruit bowl there are 4 apples, 2 bananas, and 5 pears.  What is the ratio of pears to ALL fruit?

Accepted Answer

5:11

Answer

5:4

Answer

2:5

Answer

6:5

Question 2

A recipe requires 2 cups of milk for every 3 cups of flour. If you use 8 cups of milk, how many cups of flour do you need?

Accepted Answer

12

Answer

9

Answer

16

Answer

6

Question 3

In a class, the ratio of boys to girls is 6:5. If there are 18 boys, how many girls are there?

Accepted Answer

15

Answer

11

Answer

24

Answer

12

Question 4

Tyler is a beast at baseball. He scored 22 home runs in 7 games. If he keeps up that pace, how many home runs would he score in 21 games?

Accepted Answer

66 home runs

Answer

3 home runs

Answer

6 home runs

Answer

home runs

Question 5

A local bakery called "Becky's Bakery" makes 100 batches of cookies in 8 hours. If they keep up this pace, how many batches of cookies would they make in 12 hours?

Accepted Answer

150 batches of cookies

Answer

120 batches of cookies

Answer

200 batches of cookies

Answer

400 batches of cookies

Question 6

John can read 135 pages in 1 1/2 hours. What is Johns reading rate in pages per minute?

Accepted Answer

1.5

Answer

2.5

Answer

90

Answer

30

Question 7

The 6th grade took a field trip to the movies. The table shows the price of popcorn based on the quantity purchased. How much would it cost for 20 bags of popcorn?

Accepted Answer

60

Answer

50

Answer

55

Answer

65

Question 8

What is B?

Accepted Answer

70

Answer

28

Answer

49

Answer

56

Question 9

If 5 candy bars cost $3.00, how much will 2 candy bars cost?

Accepted Answer

$.60

Answer

$.40

Answer

$.80

Question 10

You travel 150 miles on 5 gallons. How far did you travel per gallon?

Accepted Answer

30 miles

Answer

15 miles

Answer

3 miles

Answer

25 miles

Question 11

Solve the proportion.

Accepted Answer

k=5

Answer

k=3.3333333

Answer

k=60

Answer

k=90

Question 12

In an animal shelter, the ratio of dogs to cats is 5 to 3. There are 25 dogs.  Write and solve a proportion to find the number c of cats.

Accepted Answer

c=15

Answer

c=18

Answer

c=21

Answer

c=16

Question 13

What is the unit rate if there are 92 miles driven using 4 gallons of gas?

Accepted Answer

23 miles per gallon

Answer

21 miles per gallon

Answer

22 miles per gallon

Answer

96 miles per gallon

Question 14

Austin mowed 7 lawns in 4 hours. At that rate, how long will it take him to mow 21 lawns?

Accepted Answer

12 hours

Answer

11 hours

Answer

21 hours

Answer

28 hours.

Question 15

A bag of marbles comes with 3 blue marbles, 2 red marbles, and 5 yellow marbles. What is the ratio of red to yellow?

Accepted Answer

2:5

Answer

5:3

Answer

3:5

Answer

5:2

Question 16

Kelly has 10 apps on her iPad. 5 are school apps, 2 are music apps, and 3 are games. What is the ratio of music apps to all apps?

Accepted Answer

1 to 5

Answer

5 to 2

Answer

10:5

Answer

3:20

Question 17

I have 4 scary movies, 5 funny movies, 2 romantic movies and 3 animated movies. I have the ratio of 1:7 What could I be comparing?

Accepted Answer

Romantic movies to all movies

Answer

Animated movies to scary movies

Answer

funny movies to all movies

Answer

all movies to romantic movies

Question 18

If there are 5 boys and 7 girls, write the ratio of girls to boys.

Accepted Answer

7 to 5

Answer

5 to 7

Answer

5 to 12

Answer

7 to 12

Question 19

Daisy sour cream is $1.68 for 8 oz.

Kraft sour cream $2.08 for 16 oz.

Find the unit price of each and choose the better deal.

Accepted Answer

Kraft

Answer

Daisy

Question 20

Are the two ratios equivalent?
3 : 10 and 9 : 20

Accepted Answer

No

Answer

Yes

Answer

I have no idea

Question 21

A cat had a litter of kittens with 12 kittens.  Eights of the kittens were grey.  The rest were orange.  What is the ratio of orange kittens to grey kittens?

Accepted Answer

4 to 8

Answer

12 to 8

Answer

8 to 12

Answer

2 to 1

Question 22

Let's pretend there are 147 boys and 210 girls in the 6th grade at AMS.  If so, what is the ratio of girls to boys in the 6th grade at AMS.

Accepted Answer

210 to 147

Answer

147 to 210

Answer

21 to 30

Answer

63 to 147

Question 23

Stewart started a bug collection using only spiders and fireflies.  The ratios of total bugs to fireflies was 7 to 3.  Choose which statement is TRUE about Stewart's bug collection.

Accepted Answer

There are more spiders in Stewart' collection than fireflies.

Answer

The ratio of spiders to fireflies is 3:7.

Answer

The ratio of spiders to fireflies is 7:3.

Answer

Stewart's bug collection had 25 total bugs.

Question 24

Which of the following pairs of ratios are equivalent?

Accepted Answer

2 to 9  and  8 to 36

Answer

14 : 22  and  7 : 44

Answer

1:8  and  3:16

Answer

6 to 8  and  4 to 2

Question 25

My slime recipe calls for 3 teaspoons of baking soda for every 6 teaspoons of glue.  How many teaspoons of glue are there for every teaspoon of baking soda?

Accepted Answer

1/3

Answer

1/2

Answer

2

Answer

3

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