Simple proportion - math word problems

Number of problems found: 98

  • Proportion 2
    car_25 A car is able to travel 210 km in 3 hours. How far can it travel in 5 hours? Put what kind of proportion is this and show your solution.
  • Proportion
    proportion write the following proportion 8 is to 64 as to 2 is to x
  • Proportion 3
    apples For every 8 mango trees in the orchard, there are 4-star apple trees. If there are 1320 trees, how many trees of each kind are there?
  • Candies
    bonbons_9 There are red, blue and green candies in bad. Red to green is in 6:11 ratio and blue to red in a 7: 5 ratio. In what proportion are blue to green candies?
  • Proportional relationship
    ratios2 The ordered pairs (6,24) and (1, s) represent a proportional relationship. Find the value of s.
  • Motor oil
    olej 30 liters of oil cost 28.80 Euros. How much cost a liter?
  • Two bricks
    bricks_4 One brick weighs 1kg and half a brick, how many weigh two bricks?
  • Tank 11
    tanks_6 When 150 litres has been drawn from a tank it is 3/8 full, how many litres will the tank hold?
  • 14 percent
    percent_1 If 14 percent is 56, what is the base?
  • Sixty
    pigs_1 Sixty percent of one-fifteen of the total is equal to thirty. What are two percent of the total?
  • Five mechanics
    car_37 Five mechanics will make a car for some time. How many cars can 30 mechanics produce at the same time?
  • Rails
    rails 18 m railway weighs 1260 kg. How much weighs 100 m of welded railways?
  • Driver
    truck_7 I drive at an average speed of 70km/h, I drive 10 thousand km. How long did it take me?
  • Painters
    natieraci Five painters painting the fence for eight days. How many days over will take work if paint the fence only four decorators?
  • The orchard
    jablone 4 temporary workers harvested the orchard in 9 days. How many temporary workers we need for six days?
  • Cable car
    lanovka The cable car will carry 1280 passengers in 40 minutes. How many people will be transported in 2.5 hours?
  • Painters
    time Ten painters paint the school in 20 days. How many days do four painters paint the school at the same pace of work?
  • Pumps
    pumps Five pumps pumped 1,800 hl of water for 3 hours. How many hectoliters of water pump same two powerful pumps for six hours?
  • Mother and daughter
    clocks2 Mother is 44 years old, her daughter 14. How many years ago was her mother four times older than her daughter?
  • Study
    time_4 For 7 hours study, she scored a 75 so if she made 93 how many hours would she need to study?

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