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This document provides 17 practice questions about ratios. The questions cover a variety of ratio scenarios including: the ratio of different types of books in a library; the ratio of candies in a bag; using a student-teacher ratio to determine the number of students at a school; converting between inches and centimeters; and determining prices based on different size packages. The questions progress from simple ratio calculations to more complex multi-step word problems involving ratios.

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SSAT Math (Dragged) 4

This document provides 17 practice questions about ratios. The questions cover a variety of ratio scenarios including: the ratio of different types of books in a library; the ratio of candies in a bag; using a student-teacher ratio to determine the number of students at a school; converting between inches and centimeters; and determining prices based on different size packages. The questions progress from simple ratio calculations to more complex multi-step word problems involving ratios.

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PRACTICE QUESTIONS: RATIOS

For questions 1-4, consider the following information: A class library has 200 books, of which
20 are history books and 30 are math books.
1. What is the ratio of history books to math books?

2. What is the ratio of history books to non-history books?

3. What fraction of the library’s books are math books?

4. If the library adds 50 new books, what would be the ratio of new books to old
books?

5. Jenny bought a bag of gummy worms and hard candies. In the bag, the ratio of
gummy worms to hard candies is 3 to 5. What is the fraction of hard candies in the
bag?

6. A school has a student-teacher ratio of 15 to 1. If the school has 22 teachers, how


many students are at the school?

7. A recipe says to add a ratio of 3 cups of water to every 2 cups of rice. If John adds 6
cups of rice, how much water should he add?

For questions 8-11, consider the following information: Mrs. Markle has a jar of green, red,
and blue marbles on her desk. In the jar, the ratio of green to red to blue marbles is 3:2:4.
8. What is the ratio of green marbles to non-green marbles?

9. What is the fraction of blue marbles in the jar?

10. If there are 12 red marbles, how many green marbles are in the jar?

11. If there are 12 red marbles, how many total marbles are in the jar?

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12. If 12 inches are equivalent to 30.48 centimeters, and there are 36 inches in one
yard, how many centimeters are equivalent to one yard?

13. A store sells flour in 1-pound bags, which cost $1.50, and 5-pound bags, which cost
$3.50. If Dominique needs to buy 10 pounds of flour, how much money will she
save by buying 5-pound bags instead of 1-pound bags?

14. Monica has a wooden board 27 centimeters long. She needs to cut the board into
two pieces whose lengths are in a ratio of 4:5. How long should she make the
smallest piece?

15. The instructions for Kevin’s plant fertilizer said to dissolve 1 packet of fertilizer in
2.5 cups of water. If Kevin is using 6 cups of water, how many packets of fertilizer
does he need?

16. Amy can read 10 pages of her textbook in 15 minutes. How many pages can she
read in 40 minutes?

17. If a fruit stand sells 5 kilograms of apples for $6.75, how many kilograms of apples
can Carlos buy for $2.70?

Question 18 is Upper Level Only.


18. The tax on a car valued at $30,000 is $1,200. If there is a $2,000 tax on a second car
and the same tax rate applies, what is the value of the second car?

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