Ratio (Higher)

1(a) Jason, Damien and Julia save their money in a ratio of 2 ∶ 5 ∶ 8

If Damien saves £45 a week, how much do they save in total?
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£18 £72 £90 £135

1(b) There are 37 horses in a field.

Alannah, David and Taylor are supposed to share the horses with a ratio of 4 ∶ 2 ∶ 1,
with no part horses allowed.
What is the least number of horses that must be removed to allow this ratio to work
with full numbers?
[1 mark]

1 2 3 4

1(c) The ratio used to share some money between two people is 3 ∶ 5. One person gets
£16 less than another.
Express the amount each receives as a ratio.
[1 mark]

5: 21 19: 35 24: 40 48: 64

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2 The ratio of apples, 𝑎, to oranges, 𝑜, is 11 ∶ 17

Express this ratio as an equation with 𝑎 as the subject.
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3 Given that,
𝑥 + 1 ∶ 3𝑦 = 1 ∶ 7, and 2𝑥 ∶ 𝑦 + 3 = 2 ∶ 5
Find 𝑥 and 𝑦
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4 A bag contains a mixture of 160 5p and 10p coins.

The ratio of 5p to 10p coins is 7 ∶ 3
Some 10p coins are added so that now the ratio of 5p to 10p coins is 7 ∶ 5

4(a) How many 10p coins were added?

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4(b) What is the value of the coins before and after the additional 10p coins were added?
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In order to make a new colour, an artist combines 4 parts blue, 3 parts yellow and 7
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parts red.
5(a) If the combination results in a quantity of 210 ml of paint, how much of each colour is
used?
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5(b) The cost of blue paint is 6p per ml, yellow paint is 4p per ml and red paint is 2p per
ml.
The mixture allows for 5 paintings to be created with only this colour.
Each painting sells for £5.
How much profit does the artist make?
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6 A survey is taken of students’ pets.

The results are expressed in the following ratios:
the number of cats to dogs is 3 ∶ 2
the number of cats to birds is 4 ∶ 1
6(a) If there were 207 animals recorded, how many birds were recorded?
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6(b) Find how many dogs were recorded.

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At a children’s birthday party each child was given a party bag that was red, blue or
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green.
The ratio of red to blue party bags was 4 : 3
The ratio of blue to green was 3 : 2
Find the ratio of those who received a red party bag to those who received a green
party bag.
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8 A box contains a selection of red, blue and orange sweets in the ratio 4 ∶ 3 ∶ 6

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6 blue sweets are added to the box making the probability of selecting a blue sweet
3

8(a) What is the new total number of sweets in the box?

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8(b) Hence what is the probability of randomly selecting an orange sweet?

[1 mark]

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9 A business has two different offices, one in London, the other in New York.
The ratio of the number of staff at the London office to New York office is 3 ∶ 5
Employees of the business are either part time or full time.
In London 30% of the staff are part time
In New York 20% of the staff are part time

Given that the business has 38 part-time members of staff, work out the total number
of employees.
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