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Lesson 5: Part-part-whole Ratios — Practice Questions

  1. 1. A parking lot has 11 cars and 4 trucks. What is the part-to-part ratio of trucks to cars?

    • A. $4:11$
    • B. $11:4$
    • C. $4:15$
    • D. $11:15$
  2. 2. An animal shelter has 7 dogs and 10 cats. What is the part-to-whole ratio of dogs to all animals?

    • A. $7:10$
    • B. $10:7$
    • C. $7:17$
    • D. $10:17$
  3. 3. A library shelf holds 18 fiction books and 12 non-fiction books. What is the simplified part-to-whole ratio of fiction books to all books? The answer should be in the format a:b. ___.

  4. 4. For a project, a student spent 40 dollars. The ratio of money spent on supplies to money on printing was $3:5$. How much was spent on printing? The answer is ___ dollars.

  5. 5. A garden contains 24 roses and 18 tulips. What is the simplified part-to-part ratio of tulips to roses? The answer should be in the format a:b. ___.

  6. 6. A bakery made 560 muffins. They were placed in 8 large boxes with an equal number of muffins in each box. How many muffins are in one box? ___

  7. 7. A librarian had 250 books. She received a donation of 50 more books. If she arranges all the books equally on 5 new shelves, how many books are on each shelf?

    • A. 50
    • B. 60
    • C. 300
    • D. 10
  8. 8. Liam bought a container with 3,000 beads. He used 600 beads for a project and used the rest to make 8 identical bracelets. How many beads are on each bracelet? ___

  9. 9. When using a tape diagram to model a division problem like $420 \div 6 = 70$, what quantity does the entire length of the tape represent?

    • A. The number of parts (6)
    • B. The value of one part (70)
    • C. The total amount (420)
    • D. The operation (division)
  10. 10. A school district has 4,500 dollars to spend on 9 identical new tablets for its classrooms. How much does each tablet cost in dollars? ___