4.2 - Common Uses
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Practice Questions
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What is the ratio of 4 apples to 6 oranges?
💡 Hint: Use GCD to simplify.
If 10 students are in a classroom, and 4 are girls, what is the ratio of boys to girls?
💡 Hint: Calculate the number of boys first.
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What does a ratio compare?
💡 Hint: Think about how you compare things.
True or False: A proportion states that two ratios are equal.
💡 Hint: Consider what 'equal' means in terms of ratios.
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A school has a ratio of boys to girls of 3:2. If there are 120 boys, how many girls are there?
💡 Hint: Use unitary method or proportion to solve.
You have a piece of cloth that is 18 meters long. You want to cut it into pieces of length 3 meters each. What is the ratio of the length of one piece to the total length?
💡 Hint: Think about what part means in relation to the whole.
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