Ratio and Proportion Word Problems — Examples & Practice
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- (Video) Proportion Examples and Word Problems by Math Meeting This video by Math Meeting explains proportions and works through a few examples. Summary\large{\text{Summary}}Summ…
By Stefan Cuevas, Alex Federspiel, Eunji Kwon, Amy Feraco, Jonathan Heller, Caroline K, Joshua Siktar
- Math in Music: Rhythm Now that the basic concepts of ratios and proportions have been covered, we are going to dive a little deeper into working with them through the subject of…
By Jonathan Heller, Sarah Walker, Alex Federspiel, Caroline K, Joshua Siktar
- Math in Music: Pitch Now that the basic concepts of ratios and proportions have been covered, we are going to dive a little deeper into working with them through the subject of …
By Jonathan Heller, Alex Federspiel, Caroline K
- Ratio and Proportion Word Problems Ratio and proportion word problems are really applicable to real life when you need to calculate costs, determine time limits, or even convert…
By Caroline K, Alex Federspiel, Joshua Siktar
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- If you want to keep the same aspect ratio, what should you adjust the width of the picture to?
- How many cockroaches will he be expecting to find?
- How many cups would you need to drink in order to stay up for a whole day? (Please don't try this at home.)
- Scott Rogowsky hosts 888 HQ trivia games a week. How many trivia games does Scott host in one year?
- Did you know you can make money by participating in research studies? Brian does! He makes 25\2525 per three studies, and he has already participated in three studies. If he wan…
- If you play for two hours, how much time passed in the game?
- Arthur wants to invite more people to his table. He finds another round table with a diameter of 20 feet20 \text{ feet}20 feet. How many more knights can he have sit? (Round dow…
- Assuming serve speed is proportional to how many people buy tickets, how fast is she serving the ball now?
- Stefan writes thirty Expii problems per day. If he writes problems twenty days per month, how many problems will he have written after five months?
- Tony has two lawn mowers and each requires a particular mixture of oil and gas as fuel. Mower A requires a 1:491:491:49 ratio of oil to gas. Mower B requires a 3:573:573:57 rati…
- Jamie had a bag of jelly beans with 444 different flavors. 20%20\%20% were cherry, 25%25\%25% were blue raspberry, 30%30\%30% were lemon, and the rest were green apple. If there…
- Assuming that I have an infinite amount of perfectly 12 inch12 \text{ inch}12 inch rulers, how many will I need to reach 3 meters3 \text{ meters}3 meters?
- Assume that I can measure mass to perfect accuracy. How many tons is something that weighs exactly 17 ounces?17 \text{ ounces}?17 ounces? Remember, 1 ton32000 oz.\frac{1\text{ t…
- 472 liters472 \text{ liters}472 liters is equivalent to how many milliliters? Keep in mind that 1 L1000 mL.\frac{1\text{ L}}{1000\text{ mL}}.1000 mL1 L.
- The rebel chickens number 130130130. Sadly, the imperial chickens number 910910910. What is the ratio of imperial chickens to rebel chickens?
- A large roomful of people divides into teams of size 222 or 333 each for a project. Midway through, they go outside for a break. While outside, you survey them (not knowing who …
- Suppose that on every 222 possessions in basketball, you score 333 points. If there are 100100100 possessions in a full game, how many points do you score?
- If your mom has 333 sisters and 444 brothers, and your dad has 222 sisters and 444 brothers, what is your ratio of uncles to aunts?
- Your mother informs you that for every half hour you spend watching television, you have to spend two hours solving problems on Expii. Now that seems terribly unfair to you, but…
- If 555 schmurkles buys 333 schmickles, how many schmickles can be bought by 252525 schmurkles?
- If for every 555 hour shift I work, I get 30\3030, how much money do I make if I work 303030 hours?
- Ever wonder how large the bursts are in a fireworks displays? It turns out that the burst diameter is roughly 454545 feet per inch of the diameter of its shell. How wide will th…
- The price of movie tickets is always increasing. Suppose that movie tickets sell for 15\1515 each and that a single movie is watched by 1%1\%1% of the population of a country. A…
- Above is the Fibonacci spiral. It is a pattern that pops up in nature very frequently. The example above is the Whirlpool Galaxy. The ratio that is the secret to this pattern is…
- Mon Jackey is stocking up on Coca Cola so he goes to Malwart to buy a bundle of packages. Each package contains 151515 cans of Cola. Given Mon drinks two and a half cans per day…