Ratio - 8th grade (13y) - math problems

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Number of problems found: 355

  • Ratio of volumes
    cylinder If the heights of two cylindrical drums are in the ratio 7:8 and their base radii are in the ratio 4:3. What is the ratio of their volumes?
  • 1st drug
    pirule First drug pack has an active ingredient ratio of L1: L2 = 2: 1 Second drug pack have a ratio of active ingredients L1: L2 = 1: 3 In which ratio do we have to mix the two packages so that the ratio of substances L1: L2 = 1: 2?
  • Ratio of sides 2
    square_5 The ratio of the side lengths of one square to another is 1:2. Find the ratio of the area of the two squares.
  • Ratio
    ratio_2 Unfold number 1963 in the ratio 9:2:2.
  • New ratio
    chicken_6 The ratio of ducks and chicken in our yard is 2 : 3. The total number of ducks and chickens together is 30. Mother gave 3 of the chickens to our neighbor. What is the new ratio now?
  • Number ratio
    ratio2 Calculate two positive numbers that its ratio is 6:6 and difference was 0.
  • Five numbers in ratio
    arithmet_seq There are 5 integers that are in the ratio 1: 2: 3: 4: 5. Their arithmetic mean is 12. Determine the smallest of these numbers.
  • Trio ratio
    minca Hans, Alena and Thomas have a total of 740 USD. Hans and Alena split in the ratio 5: 6 and Alena and Thomas in the ratio 4: 5. How much will everyone get?
  • Alloy
    hlinik_slitina The first alloy is a mixture of two metals in the ratio 1:2, the second is a mixture of same metals in the ratio 2:3. At what ratio we have these two alloys put into the furnace to obtain a new metal alloy with ratio 17:27? (All three ratios correspond to
  • Divide
    decimals2 Divide the number 72 in the ratio 7: 2 and calculate the ratio of the numbers found in this order and write down as decimal.
  • Composite ratio
    penize_49 Jakub, Aneta, and Lenka divided 1342 USD in the ratio 5/2: 3/10: 1/4. How much did Lenka take?
  • Double ratio
    phones The mobile phone was twice gradually discounted in the ratio of 3: 2 1 half: 5 quarters. How much did it originally cost if the price was CZK 4,200 after a double discount?
  • Family and age ratios
    family_1 Age of father and son are in the ratio 10:3; age of father and daughter are in the ratio 5:2. How old is father and son, if daughter is 20 years old? In what ratio is age sister and brother?
  • Rectangular triangles
    r_triangles The lengths of corresponding sides of two rectangular triangles are in the ratio 2:5. At what ratio are medians relevant to hypotenuse these right triangles? At what ratio are the contents of these triangles? Smaller rectangular triangle has legs 6 and 8
  • BW-BS balls
    balls_3 Adam has a full box of balls that are large or small, black or white. Ratio of large and small balls is 5:3. Within the large balls the ratio of the black to white is 1:2 and between small balls the ratio of the black to white is 1:8 What is the ratio of
  • Ratio of two unknown numbers
    numbers2_23 Two numbers are given. Their sum is 30. We calculate one-sixth of a larger number and add to both numbers. So we get new numbers whose ratio is 5:7. Which two numbers were given?
  • Boys and girls 2
    boy_2 The ratio of boys to girls in math club is 4:3 . After 8 more girls joined the Club, the ratio become 1:1. How many members are there in the club now?
  • Mother and daughter
    kresba_1 The ratio of years mother and daughter is 5:2. After 7 years the ratio is 2: 1. How many years ago daughter was born?
  • RT and ratio
    triangles A right triangle whose legs are in a ratio 6:12 has hypotenuse 68 m long. How long are its legs?
  • Chocolate
    cokolada_7 I have a box of chocolate - white, milk and dark. The ratio of white to milk with dark is 3: 4. The ratio of white and milk to dark is 17: 4. Calculate what is the ratio between white, milk, dark chocolate.

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