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The document is a holiday practice worksheet containing various mathematical problems focused on simplifying ratios and applying them to real-life scenarios. It includes tasks such as calculating shares of sweets, pencils, and money based on given ratios, as well as determining total counts and financial outcomes based on ratios of children to adults and students. The problems are designed to reinforce understanding of ratios and proportional reasoning.

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WS - Ratio

The document is a holiday practice worksheet containing various mathematical problems focused on simplifying ratios and applying them to real-life scenarios. It includes tasks such as calculating shares of sweets, pencils, and money based on given ratios, as well as determining total counts and financial outcomes based on ratios of children to adults and students. The problems are designed to reinforce understanding of ratios and proportional reasoning.

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HOLIDAY PRACTICE WORKSHEET

1. Simplify the ratio 25 :35

2. Simplify the ratio 18 :45

3. Simplify the ratio 300 :25

4. Alex and Thomas share 30 sweets. They divide them in the ratio3 :2. How many
sweets does Thomas have?

5. Sophie has 60 pencils. The ratio of sharpened pencils to blunt pencils is 4 :1 How
many sharpened pencils does Sophie have?

6. The number of people who voted for the Green Party in an election was 1500. The
number of people who voted for the Blue Party was 9000. Write the ratio of Green
Party voters to Blue Party voters in its simplest form.

7. A piece of carpet is 240 cm long. Mr Jones cuts it into three pieces in the ratio 1 :2:5
Work out the length of the longest piece of carpet.

8. Sarah has some chocolates. 24 are white chocolate. 16 are milk chocolate. 8 are dark
chocolate. Write down the ratio of white chocolate to milk chocolate to dark
chocolate.
Give your ratio in its simplest form.

9. Rachel has some apples and bananas. The ratio of apples to bananas is 2 : 3 She has 14
apples. Work out how many bananas Rachel has.

10.Chris and Molly win money in a competition. They share the money in the ratio 2 :3
Molly receives $ 240.How much money does Chris receive?

11.At a rugby match, the ratio of children to adults is 2 :3 .There are 80 children in the
crowd. Each adult ticket costs $8. Each child ticket costs a quarter of the adult ticket.
Work out the total money made from ticket sales.

12.Charlene and Danielle share some money in ratio 2: 3 Danielle gets $25 more than
Charlene. How much does each girl receive?
13.The ratio of boys to girls in a school is 4: 5. There are 220 boys in the school. How
many students attend the school?

14.The ratio of girls to boys in a class is 2 : 3. What fraction of the class are girls? What
percentage of the class are boys?

15.4 schools sent students to a languages course. One of the schools sent both French and
German students. The ratio of French to German students it sent was 1 : 3 .The school
sent 21 German students. The other 3 schools sent the same number of students.
Work out the total number of students sent to the languages course.

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