Ratio, Proportion, and percent Story Problems
You can complete as many problems off this page as you would like. Make sure that when you submit your answer using the Assignment Form or the Contact Form that you have added your name and the title(s) of the answers you are providing.
Please pick out the keywords in each problem, set up the ratio, and provide the answer. Complete all three steps to help me see your thought process.
Please pick out the keywords in each problem, set up the ratio, and provide the answer. Complete all three steps to help me see your thought process.
RPP Daily Spark # 1
Hugo buys an 8-ounce bag of snack mix. By weight, the snack mix is 35% pretzels, 50% peanuts, and 15% puffed rice. Hugo removes the puffed rice, which he dislikes, and eats all the pretzels and peanuts. How many ounces of food does he eat?
|
RPP Daily Spark # 2
A basketball team scores on five of every eight possessions--that is, it scores five of every eight times it controls the ball. In a certain game, it does not score on 24 possessions. How many times does the team score in this game?
|
RPP Daily Spark # 3
Officials at the Acme Chainsaw Company decide to perform a random sampling of 100 chainsaws recently produced at their factory. They discover that six of these chainsaws are defective. Out of every 5000 chainsaws produced in their factory, about how many can the company expect to be defective?
|
RPP Daily Spark # 4
The ratio of Mac to PC users in the Future Software Engineers of America club is three Mac users for every PC users. There are no neutrals in this club. If there are 75 club members, how many use PCs?
|
|
|
|