Length + simple proportion - practice problems
Number of problems found: 44
- Gallons of gas
Sara drives 171 miles on 7.6 gallons of gas. She uses this information to calculate how many miles per gallon she can drive. Using this result, how many miles can Sara drive on 12.5 gallons of gas? - A two 2
A two-wheeler covers 68.9 km in one liter of petrol. How much distance will it cover in 10 liters of petrol? - A statue
A statue on a shelf is recreated on a computer screen. The actual statue is 14 in. tall and 4 in. wide. The statue on the computer screen is 1.5 in. wide. How tall is the statue on the computer screen? - Simultaneously 81612
Milan, who is 1.85 meters tall, casts a shadow of 74 cm. How tall must Emil be if he casts a shadow 6 cm longer than Milan simultaneously?
- Calculate 80741
In the camp, the children made a mock-up of the campsite. In its center was a maple, which had a height of 28 cm on the model. Calculate the height of the maple in the campsite if, in the morning, it casts a shadow 14 m long and its model has a shadow 49 - Garden tree
Anna is drawing a picture of her garden. A tree is 9 meters high, and she draws it as 13.5 cm tall in her drawing. If a flowering plant is 40 cm high in reality, how will Anna have to draw it to keep the proportion correct? - Relay 2
Marco Racer's best time in the 100-yard relay is 15 1/4 seconds. How many seconds would it take him to run 450 yards at the same rate? - Determine 70834
At the same time, a vertical 2-meter pole casts a shadow of 0.85 meters. At the same time, a chimney of unknown height casts a 45m long shadow. Determine the height of the chimney. - A scale
A map scale states that every ¼ of an inch represents 20 miles. If two cities are 3½ inches apart, how many miles are actually between the two cities?
- Terminated 66674
The department store originally employed 8 cleaners for reduced working hours of 4 hours a day. When two of them terminated their employment, 6 cleaners agreed to extend their original daily working hours. Specify its length in hours and minutes. - Oil crisis
A car runs 16 km using 1 liter of petrol. How much distance will it cover using 2 3/4 liters of petrol? - Wall builders
If 12 men can build a wall 398 meters long in 48 days, how long would it take 33 men to build a wall 347 meters long? Answer to 3 decimal places. - The bricklayer
The bricklayer built a six-meter base of the fence in 3 hours. How long does it take to build a 14 m long base? - Clothes 4
If the cost of 16.5 meters of cloth is ₹2,062.50, then find the cost of 24.75 meters of clothes.
- Petrol as fuel
A car can travel 480 miles on a full tank of petrol. The tank holds 60 liters. The fuel gauge shows there are 15 liters left in the tank. How many more miles can the car travel before it runs out of petrol? - Kilograms 48761
Matthew paints his room. He paints square walls. He painted a wall with a side of 3 m and consumed 5 kg of paint. How many kilograms of paint will he need on a wall with a side length of 6 m? - Meters 48383
How many meters of wire is in a bundle of 900 g if 10 meters of wire weighs 150 g? - Millimeters 30721
On a map with a scale of 1:40000, the distance between two mountain peaks is given by a segment of 16 cm. How far will the same vertices be on a map with a scale of 1:140000? Round the result to millimeters. Solve using the trinomial - Vertical rod
The vertical one-meter-long rod casts a shadow 150 cm long. Calculate the height of a column whose shadow is 36 m long simultaneously.
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