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Lesson 4: Solving Ratio and Rate Problems — Practice Questions

  1. 1. A recipe uses 12 oranges to make 3 glasses of juice. To find the unit rate of oranges per glass, you must divide both quantities by ___.

  2. 2. A student reads 150 pages in 3 hours. What is their reading speed in pages per hour? \n___ pages per hour.

  3. 3. A baker uses 8 cups of flour for 2 cakes. At this rate, how many cups of flour are needed to make 5 cakes? \n___ cups.

  4. 4. A train travels 240 kilometers in 3 hours. At the same speed, how many kilometers will it travel in 7 hours? \n___ km.

  5. 5. To find how many miles a car travels in 1 hour, given it travels 180 miles in 3 hours, what is the correct operation using a ratio table?

    • A. Multiply both 180 and 3 by 3
    • B. Divide both 180 and 3 by 3
    • C. Multiply 180 by 3
    • D. Divide 180 by 1
  6. 6. If 6 notebooks cost 15 dollars, what is the cost of 18 notebooks? ___ dollars.

  7. 7. A gardener knows that 5 tomato plants produce about 12 pounds of tomatoes. To find how many pounds 20 plants will produce, what scale factor should be used on the pounds of tomatoes?

    • A. 4
    • B. 1/4
    • C. 5
    • D. 2.4
  8. 8. A car uses 8 gallons of gasoline to travel 200 miles. How many gallons are needed for a trip of 75 miles? ___ gallons.