Understanding Ratios Word Problems

Eight out of ten teachers give homework. What is the ratio of teachers who give homework to teachers who do not give homework?

Seven out of 18 classmates are on Ella's soccer team. What is the ratio of classmates not on Ella's soccer team to classmates on Ella's soccer team?

• 7/18

• 7/11

• 11/7

• 18/7

Out of 25 students who took the test, 21 passes. What is the ratio of students who passed to total number of students?

There are 5 white buttons in a bag of 19 buttons. What is the ratio of white buttons to buttons that are not white?

• 5:19

• 19/5

• 14:5

• 5/14

Candidate B received 5 votes and Candidate A has 50 votes. What is the ratio of Votes for Candidate A to votes for Candidate B?

• 5/20

• 5/50

• 50/5

What is the ratio of yellow marbles to total marbles?

• 4/18

• 14/4

• 4/14

• 18/4

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

• 5:4

• 5/11

• 2:5

• 6/5

What are the 3 ways to write a ratio?

• fraction, comma, colon

• fraction, colon, the word to

• colon, comma, equation

• fraction, decimal, percent

A box hold 20 marbles. There are 13 green marbles and the rest are yellow. What is the ratio of yellow marbles to green marbles.

• 20 to 13

• 7 to 13

• 13 to 7

• 33 to 13

Ms. Shields has 9 boys and 12 girls in her 1st block. What is the ratio of girls to total?