Proportions Explained: Practice Problems and Examples

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Ratios, rates, proportions

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Ella Bradshaw 2022-01-21

Sara has $4 \frac{3}{4}$ yards of red fleece and $2 \frac{2}{3}$ yards of blue fleece fabric. How many yards of red and blue fleece fabric does she have altogether?

Yahir Haas 2022-01-21

A restaurant had 3 pies, cut into eighths. By noon, $\frac{3}{4}$ of all the pieces were sold. How many pieces of pie were sold by noon?

Keaton Good 2022-01-21

How do you simplify $24 : 34 ?$

Reese Munoz 2022-01-21

If 7 apples cost y cents, how many can you buy for x dollars?
a) $\frac{7 y}{x}$
b) $\frac{7 x}{y}$
c) $\frac{700 y}{x}$
d) $\frac{700 x}{y}$

Aaden Lam 2022-01-21

A man spends 10% of his rupees, then 60% of the remaining rupees. Given that he has Rs.72 left, how many rupees did he start with?

Clarence Hines 2022-01-21

Three apples cost 37 cents. What would be the price of $1 \frac{3}{4}$ dozen apples
A. 444 cents
B. 148 cents
C. 259 cents
D. 297 cents

Seamus Kent 2022-01-21

What is x in the following ration equation
$\Rightarrow x : (\frac{23}{42} + x) = \frac{8}{25} : \frac{14}{15} ?$

if destiny takes her pulse for 10 seconds and counts 12 beats how many beats per minute is that

Quentin Johnson 2021-12-31

The solution of the given proportion.
Given: $\frac{3}{8} = \frac{b}{10}$

Julia White 2021-12-30

Whether the given ratios are equivalent ratios or not.
Given:
The given ratios are:
$\frac{3}{7} and \frac{18}{42}$

Mary Reyes 2021-12-30

What is 5% of 200?

what is the value of x? please I need step by step solution

hvacwk 2021-12-28

The solution of the given proportion.
Given: $\frac{7}{10} = \frac{m}{14}$

chezmarylou1i 2021-12-28

The solution of the given proportion.
Given:
$\frac{n}{9} = \frac{6}{27}$

Gregory Emery 2021-12-28

The number of drinks that are sold if the price is set to $2.50 per drink.
Given information:
If the price is set at $1.25 per drink, then 400 drinks are sold.

abreviatsjw 2021-12-26

The solution of the given proportion.
Given:
$\frac{w}{2} = \frac{4.5}{6.8}$

aspifsGak5u 2021-12-26

To solve:
The proportion $\frac{y}{10} = \frac{13}{4}$ .

prsategazd 2021-12-26

To solve:
The proportion for the ratio of lime to sand in mortar

Irvin Dukes 2021-12-23

How do you solve $8^{x} = 4$ ?

osnomu3 2021-12-21

The amount of money made by the restaurant.
Given: $545 earned by selling 110 hamburgers.

Since you are looking for a proportions solver for your algebra class or some engineering task, the trick is to explore various proportion examples with answers first as these will help you to answer the most complex challenges and see how things work. As we are dealing with secondary Maths, the majority of presented proportions problems that are shown below are not overly complex. The most important aspect is using the corresponding proportions equation and seeing how to work with ratio rates in practice. Take a look at proportions Math problems, focusing on how they are represented in original instructions.

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