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Directions: Answer these questions pertaining to ratios. Choose the best answer.

1.
Which of the choices is not equivalent to the
ratio 2 : 5 ?
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       Choose:
 
6 : 15
10 : 30
  12 : 30 14 : 35



2.
The table shows the number of basketball games the home team could win to maintain their desired percentage of wins. What ratio of the number of games won to the number of games played, shown below, could also be added to this table?
Choose:
12 : 20
36 : 50
16 : 20
4 : 6
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Basketball

# of
Games
Won
# of Games Played
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8
10
24
30
32
40
48
60



3.
Mrs. Jones mixes 2 cups of water with 1 cup of sugar for her hummingbird feeders. How much sugar is used per cup of water?
humfeeder
Choose:
h1
h2
 
h3 h4



4.
Given: the table at the right shows equivalent ratios between surface area and the gallons of needed paint.
Which choice shows appropriate values for the missing x and y?
Area
(Square feet)
Paint
(Gallons)
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600
1200
3
x
2800
y
       Choose:
 
x = 1800; y = 6
x = 1600; y = 6
 
x = 1800; y = 7
x = 1600; y = 7



5.
Allison is wallpapering the ceiling in her bedroom with cloud wallpaper. The ceiling measures 20 feet by 15 feet. If the total cost of the needed wallpaper is $162.00, what is the cost of the wallpaper per square foot, in dollars?
Choose:
clouds
 
$0.54
$0.53
$1.62
$5.20



6.
The web site http://www.FreeKibble.com donates dog and cat food to shelters. A shelter receives five 30-pound bags of dry dog food. If the shelter considers one dog meal to be 8 ounces of dry dog food, how many dog meals can be prepared from this donation?
Choose:
2400 meals
300 meals
480 meals 60 meals
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7.
The available number of holiday skateboards are shown in the tape diagram at the right.
a) How many skateboards are represented by each box?
Holiday Skateboardsxmasskateboards
Choose:
2
4
6
8
  b) How many green skateboards are available?
Choose:
7
42
49 56

c)
What is the ratio of green skateboards to red skateboards?
Choose:
6 : 7
36 : 42
7 : 6 40 : 36

d)
What is the ratio of red skateboards to all available skateboards?
Choose:
6 : 7
7 : 6
13 : 6 6 : 13



8.
A factory produces 750 cartons of chocolate bars in 3 hours, as shown in the diagram below.
 
chocolate
  How many cartons of chocolate bars will be at the end of an eight-hour work shift? 
Choose:
 
1,750
2,000
5,000 9,000

 

9.
Cody notices that for every 2 evergreen trees on the school campus, there are 7 other types of trees. If there are a total of 99 trees on the campus, how many of them are not evergreens?
Choose:
  22 28 77 88
treesprig

 

10.
You decide to increase the width and height of this rectangle by 2 inches each.
a) What will be the ratio of the new width to the new height?
Choose:
 
2 : 3
3 : 2
7 : 5
5 : 7

b)
Is the new ratio of width to height the same as the original ratio of width to height?
Choose:
 
Yes
No
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