The Unfair Game

Proportional Relationships Review

 Rules of the Unfair Game
1. Everyone will do every problem.
2. When time is up, your teacher will choose a
random student to answer. If he gets it wrong,
the teacher will choose another student.
3. Whoever gets the question right and can explain
why gets to pick a prize.
4. There are only two prizes, and another student
can steal your prize if they get a question right.
When the bell rings, whoever has the prizes
keeps the prizes.
Question #1
• The ratio of the price of a television to a
computer is 5:8. the price of a computer to a
video cassette recorder is in the ratio of 12:5.
Find the ratio of the price of the television to
the price of the computer to the price of the
video cassette recorder.
Question #2
• Sand, cement and water are mixed in the ratio
of 6:2:3 to make mortar. If 5 kg of cement was
used, calculate the amount of sand and water
Question #3
• On a cruise ship, the ratio of children to adult
tourists is 3:8. The ratio of adult tourists to the
crew is 4:1. If there are 640 adults tourists on
the board, find the difference between the
number of adult tourists and children
Question #4
• Find the total length for On and CB if both
rectangles is similar
Question #5
• On a map, 2cm is equal to 30 miles. If two
cities are 75 miles apart in real life, how far
apart are they on the map?
Question #6
• In a quadrilateral ABCD, the angles A, B and C
are in the ratio 1:3:7. Find the angles of D and
C if the sum of the angles A, B and C is 187.
Question #7
Barton Springs Pool has to be drained to half of
its capacity because it has a deadly bacteria
infestation.
• The pool has about 43,000 gallons of water.
• Workers can drain 500 gallons of water in 30
minutes
How many hours will it take for the workers to
finish their job?
Question #8
• Mr. Nunez has been driving for 10 hours, and
he has used 12 gallons of gas. Each gallon of
gas cost him $3.49.

What is the total cost of gas being used per

hour?
Question #9
• The sizes of three angles of a triangle are in
the ratio A:B:C=2:1:3. What is the size of each
angle?
Question #10
• The area of square P to area of square Q is in
the ratio of 4:9. If the area of Q is 144cm2, find
the perimeter of P
Question #11
• Flora mixed 2 kg of burnt soil with 4 kg of
black soil for gardening. What is the ratio of
the amount of burnt soil used to the amount
of soil mixture? Express your answer in its
simplest form
Question #12
• Abigail spends ¼ of her day practicing the
piano. The number of hours she spends
playing the piano and studying is in the ratio
4:1. How many hours a day does Abigail
study?
Question #13
• The ratio of the ages of Tejvinder to Rajoo is
9:7 and the ratio of the ages of Tejvinder to
Mooi Lee is 6:5. Calculate the ratio of the ages
of Rajoo to Mooi Lee.
Question #14
• There were 1200 students in a school. The
ratio of boys to girls was 5:7. There were 8
boys and 4 girls who were transferred to the
school. What was the ratio of the boys to the
total enrolment now?
Question #15
• There is a group of boys and girls waiting for
school buses. 30 girls get on the first bus. The
ratio of boys to girls at the bus stop is now 3:2.
25 boys get on the second bus. There are now
same number of boys and girls at the bus
stop. How many students altogether were
originally at the bus stop?
Question #15
• The ratio of the perimeter of a square to the
length of a rectangle is 3:2. The length of the
rectangle is twice its breadth. Find the area of
the square if the perimeter of the rectangle is
48 cm
Question #16
• In Richard’s farm, there are some cows and
swans. The ratio of the number of swan legs
to the number of cow legs is 3:2. If there are
80 more swan legs than cow legs, how many
cows and how many swans are there in
Reichard’s farm?