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Ratio and Its Uses Review
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What this worksheet covers
Grade 6 (Elementary School) / Ratio and Its Uses
A relationship between two quantities is written in a form such as 3:2, and children learn to find the value of the ratio and to simplify the ratio. Calculations and word problems that turn decimal and fraction ratios into whole-number ratios sit in the middle, and the work moves on to equivalent ratios and to sharing a whole in a given ratio.
When simplifying, children subtract the same number from both sides, turning 6:4 into 4:2 where division was called for. In sharing, the whole gets divided by just one number of the ratio rather than by the sum, so the two shares no longer add back up to the whole.
Finding the value of a ratio, the skill fixed in this unit, supports a property studied in the next unit, Enlargement and Reduction: that corresponding sides keep an equal ratio. The back-and-forth between fractions and decimals practiced in Mixed Operations with Fractions and Decimals is put to work here in rewriting a ratio in whole numbers.
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Problems and answers on this worksheet
These are the problems in “Ratio and Its Uses”, shown with their answers.
(1)There is 4m of red ribbon and 5m of blue ribbon. Find the value of the ratio of the ratio of lengths of red to blue. Answer □
Answer: 0.8
(2)The height of the rectangle is 42cm and its width is 28cm. Express the ratio of the height to the width in its simplest form. Answer □
Answer: 3:2
(3)There is 0.5L of milk and 0.7L of juice. Express the ratio of the amounts of milk to juice in the simplest whole-number form. Answer □
Answer: 5:7
(4)Divide 140 in the ratio 2:5. Answer □and□
Answer: 40, 100
(5)The ratio of the number of oranges to apples is 3:2, and there are 24 oranges. How many apples are there? Answer □
Answer: 16apples
(6)Divide 36 pieces of gum in the ratio 4:5. How many are in each part? Answer □and□
Answer: 16pieces, 20pieces
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