Walt: Wilf:: Use Ratio To Compare Two Quantities
Walt: Wilf:: Use Ratio To Compare Two Quantities
Walt: Wilf:: Use Ratio To Compare Two Quantities
WALT:
Ratios
Use ratio to compare two quantities
Level 5
WILF:
Is for you to: Is for you to: Is for you to:
Write the number of blue Simplify: A dessert has both fruit and
squares to the number of yoghurt inside.
yellow squares as ratio. 26:13
Altogether, the mass of the
fruit and yoghurt is 175g.
64cm:4m The ratio of the mass of fruit
to the mass of yoghurt is 2:5
1.5:3.5
What is the mass of the
yoghurt?
Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
Keywords
A ratio says how much of one thing there is compared to another thing.
Purple : Orange
1:3
Starter:
4 Sally has 12 close friends. 7 of her friends are girls and 5 of her
friends are boys. Write the ratio of boys to girls.
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Introduction:
Ratios
A ratio can be scaled up and down.
Orange : Purple
3:1
Orange : Purple
6:2
Here the ratio is also 3 oranges to 1 purple, even though there are more
squares. Can you explain why this is?
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Ratios
Visual Example 1:
Ben the painter needs 6 litres of dark purple, he uses 4 litres of red
paint and 2 litres of blue paint.
Write the ratio of the number of red tins to the number of blue tins in
its simplest form.
Red : Blue
4:2
÷2 ÷2
2: 1
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Ratios
Visual Example 2:
Sarah has a number of white and black counters in a bag..
Black : White
3:9
÷3 ÷3
1 :3
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Ratios
Example 1 and 2:
Simplify 3 : 9 and 25 : 30
3:9
÷3 ÷3
1:3 25 : 30
÷5 ÷5
5:6
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Exercise One:
Ratios
1 Simplify the following expressions
a 3:6 b 10 : 4 c 6 : 21 d 9 : 27 e 50 : 20
f 12 : 30 g 18 : 27 h 14 : 56 i 108 : 144 j 35 : 56 : 49
3 Adam has 8 friends who are boys and 2 friends who are girls.
Write this ratio of boys to girls in its simplest form.
4 125 men and 150 women are at a wedding. Write this as a ratio of
men to women in its simplest form.
5 A painter mixes 65L of red and 15L of blue paint to get Purple.
Write this as a ratio of red to blue in its simplest form.
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Examples:
Ratios
E.g. 4 Find the missing number
12 : 7
x3 x3
36 : ?21
E.g. 5 The ratio of men to women in a sports club is 7 : 11
There are 175 men. How many women are there?
men : women
7 : 11
x25 x25
175 : ?275
There are 275 in the club
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Worked Example:
Ratios
The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 3 : 2. There are 15 boys in the
class. How many girls are there?
Boys : Girls
3 : 2
x5 x5
15 : 10
Exercise Two:
Ratios
1 Find the missing numbers in the ratios
a b c d e
3:2 7 : 12 15 : 11 13 : 14 3:5:7
9:? ? : 96 60 : ? ? : 84 ? : 45 : ?
Level 5
WILF:
Is for you to: Is for you to: Is for you to:
Write the number of blue Simplify: A dessert has both fruit and
squares to the number of yoghurt inside.
yellow squares as ratio. 26:13
Altogether, the mass of the
fruit and yoghurt is 175g.
64cm:4m The ratio of the mass of fruit
to the mass of yoghurt is 2:5
1.5:3.5
What is the mass of the
yoghurt?
Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
Keywords