Proportions Explained: Practice Problems and Examples

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Ratios, rates, proportions

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assumingsun 2022-02-11

What are the equivalent ratios 4 to 9?

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If two pounds of almonds costs $8.20 and 5 pounds cost $19.75, is the cost of almonds proportional to the weight?

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The ratio of two people's weight remains the same, whether measured in pounds or kilograms? $(1 k g = 2.2 l b)$

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What are equivalent ratios 7 to 10?

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Lupe's heart beats 288 times in 4 minutes. How do you write an equation to represent the number of times her heart beats per minute?

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Which ratio forms a proportion with $\frac{16}{20}$ ?

Alexander Day 2022-02-10

How do you write three equivalent ratios for $\frac{18}{6}$ ?

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How do you write Four meters to 150 centimeters ratio?

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How do you find the ratio in simplest form: 30 minutes to 2 hours?

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How do you divide 84 kg in a ratio of $1 : 2 : 3$ ?

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Do $\frac{20}{32}$ and $\frac{12}{20}$ form a proportion?

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The first bell rings every 20 minutes, second bell rings every 30 minutes, and the third bell rings every 50 minutes. If all three bells ring the same time at 12:00pm, when will be the next time the three bells will ring together?

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Elise walked a total of 18 kilometers by making 9 trips to school. After 10 trips to school, how many kilometers will Elise have walked in total?

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Maya has 2x as many white beads as black beads. After using 40 white and 5 black to make a necklace she has 3x as many black beads as white. How many black beads she started with?

Randy Dean 2022-02-10

Kelly has 4x as much money as Joey. After Kelly uses some money to buy a racquet, and Joey uses $$ 30$ to buy shorts, Kelly has twice as much money as Joey. If Joey started with $$ 98$ , how much money does Kelly have? what does the racquet cost?

hardcoreangelp50 2022-02-10

Maya has a piece of ribbon. She cuts the ribbon into 4 equal parts. Each part is then cut into 3 smaller equal parts. If the length of each small part is 35 cm, how long is the piece of ribbon?

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Jack’s height is $\frac{2}{3}$ of Leslie’s height. Leslie’s height is $\frac{3}{4}$ of Lindsay’s height. If Lindsay is 160 cm tall, find Jack’s height and Leslie’s height?

Israel Holden 2022-02-10

There are 15 plums and 9 apples in a fruit bowl. What is the ratio of apples to plums?

Misael Sweeney 2022-02-10

$1 mL = 32$ drops from a dropper. If a 15 mL container holds 60 equal doses of medicine, how many drops are in a dose?

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The sum of the altitude and the base radius of a cylinder is 63 cm. The radius is $\frac{4}{5}$ as long as the altitude. Calculate the surface area volume of the cylinder?

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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