Ratio - 6th grade (11y) - math problems

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Number of problems found: 119

  • Mixing paint with water
    painter_1 Mr. Adamek will paint. The purchased paint is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1.5. a) how many parts of water will add to 1 part of the paint b) how many liters of water the mission adds to 2 liters of paint
  • The dough
    cesto The dough contains water, flour, and sugar. Water and flour in a ratio of 2: 3, flour, and sugar in a ratio of 2: 1. Determine the ratio of all three components of the dough.
  • The plan
    city The plan of the housing estate is in three scales 1: 5000,1: 10000,1: 15000. The distance between two points on a plan with a scale of 1: 10000 is 12 cm. What is this distance on the other two plans? What is this distance?
  • Two villages
    mapa On the map with a scale of 1:40000 are drawn two villages actually 16 km away. What is their distance on the map?
  • Chicks
    kuriatko How many chicks were hatched from 4500 eggs, when an average of 100 eggs hatched 87 chicks?
  • Geometric plan
    map_1 At what scale the building plan if one side of the building is 45m long and 12mm long on a plan?
  • Two brothers
    mapa_ta3_3 The two brothers were to be divided according to the will of land at an area of 1ha 86a 30m2 in a ratio of 5:4. How many will everyone get?
  • The angles ratio
    123_triangle The angles in the ABC triangle are in the ratio 1: 2: 3. find the sizes of the angles and determine what kind of a triangle it is.
  • Garden
    garden_18 The rectangular garden has dimensions of 27 m and 30 m. Peter and Katka split it in a ratio of 4:5. How many square meters did Katkin measure part of the garden?
  • Photo egative
    negativ Negative dimensions are 36mm and 28mm. What will be the photo size in the 21:4 ratio?
  • Five mechanics
    car_37 Five mechanics will make a car for some time. How many cars can 30 mechanics produce at the same time?
  • Display case
    vitrinka Place a glass shelf at the height of 1m from the bottom of the display case in the cabinet. How long platter will we place at this height? The display case is a rectangular triangle with 2 m and 2.5 m legs.
  • Land area 2
    postrekovac_2 A land area was divided among the three heirs in the ratio 5:2:4. If the largest share was 20 hectares of land, what is the total area of land? Please show your solution and what kind of proportion is this please
  • Building
    wood_3 At the building, we divided 240 boards into two piles in a 5: 3 ratio. How many were fewer boards in the lower pile?
  • Andre
    stamp_6 Andre, Thomas, and Ivan split 88 postage stamps in a 2:5:4 ratio. How much did Thomas get?
  • Ornamental shrubs
    delnik_3 Children committed to plant 240 ornamental shrubs. Their commitment however exceeded by 48 shrubs. Write ratio of actually planted shrubs and commitment by lowest possible integers a/b.
  • Ratio 11
    zlomky_7 Simplify this ratio 10 : 1/4
  • A map
    mapa_1 A map of size 60cm by 25cm is reduced in the ratio of 3:5, twice. What are the new dimensions?
  • Ratios
    gule Reduce the numbers: 50 in a 1:2 ratio 111 at a ratio of 2:3 70 at 10:50 560 at a ratio of 3:8
  • Unknown number 5
    hyperbola_2 Daniel think an integer. When he change this number at a ratio of 2:5 he got number 2.8. Determine what number think Daniel.

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