Shell (Year 9) Mathematics

Ratio
Practice Questions

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Simplifying ratios
Writing ratios and fractions
Sharing into a ratio
Sharing when one value is known
Sharing when the difference is known
Working with two ratios
Problem solving with ratio
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Question 1: For each of the following, write down the ratio of red squares to green circles.
Give your ratios in their simplest forms.

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Question 2: Simplify the following ratios

(a) 4 : 6 (b) 14 : 8 (c) 15 : 10 (d) 6 : 15

(e) 30 : 10 (f) 12 : 16 (g) 6 : 18 (h) 45 : 10

(i) 12 : 28 (j) 24 : 36 (k) 25 : 60 (l) 27 : 63

(m) 48 : 60 (n) 120 : 260 (o) 8000 : 75 (p) 33 : 121

(q) 2.5 : 4.5 (r) 1.5 : 20 (s) 6 : 1.2 (t) 2.25 : 4.95

Question 3: Write the following as ratios in their simplest forms.

(a) £4 to £20 (b) 240cm to 400cm (c) 50 minutes to 20 minutes

(d) 60kg to 72kg (e) 12 miles to 30 miles (f) 15cm to 75cm

(g) 8.5g to 3.5g (h) £0.50 to £20 (i) 1.02 litres to 0.74 litres

Question 4: Write the following as ratios in their simplest forms.

(a) 8 days to 2 weeks (b) 1 hour to 15 minutes (c) 2 hours to 1 day

(d) 95p to £3.00 (e) 400m to 1.5km (f) 15kg to 900g

(g) 4500ml to 2 litres (h) 8km to 50mm (i) 90 minutes to 2 days

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Question 5: Express each of the following ratios in the form 1 : n

(a) 2:3 (b) 5:4 (c) 4 : 10 (d) 10 : 7

(e) 8 : 13 (f) 5 : 81 (g) 100 : 131 (h) 200 : 77

(i) 25 : 29 (j) 21 : 40

Question 6: Express each of the following ratios in the form n : 1

(a) 7:2 (b) 9 : 5 (c) 11 : 3 (d) 5 : 8

(e) 3 : 10 (f) 19 : 20 (g) 207 : 50 (h) 38 : 55

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Question 1: Daisy mixes 50 ml of orange juice with 200 ml of water.

Write down the ratio of orange juice to water.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Question 2: At a football match, there are 3000 men and 1800 women.
Write down the ratio of male fans to female fans.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Question 3: Aidan, Bill and Cara share sweets in the ratio of their ages.
Aidan is 12 years old.
Bill is 9 years old.
Cara is 3 years old.
Write down the ratio of their ages.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Question 4: In a nursery, there are 5 adults and 14 children.

Write the ratio of adults to children in the form 1 : n

Question 5: Ellie is making a cake.

The instructions say that the ratio of sugar to Ylour should be 1 : 3
Ellie uses 250g of sugar and 650g of Ylour.
Has Ellie used the correct ratio of sugar to Ylour?

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Question 6: Shannon is revising for her summer exams.

The table below shows the number of minutes Shannon spends revising on each
of 5 evenings.
It also shows the number of minutes Shannon spends relaxing on the 5 evenings.

Shannon wants to spend at least 5 minutes revising for every 1 minute of relaxing.
On which days did Shannon spend enough time revising?

Question 7: Four teachers are planning school trips.

The table shows the number of students and the number of teachers planned to
go on the trip.

For every 18 students there must be at least 1 teacher.

Which trips have planned to bring enough teachers?

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Question 1: The ratio of red apples to green apples in a basket is 1:2

(a) What fraction of the apples in the basket are red?

(b) What fraction of the apples in the basket are green?

Question 2: The ratio of blue pens to black pens in a box is 3:5

(a) What fraction of the pens are black?

(b) What fraction of the pens are blue?

Question 3: A farmer keeps cows and pigs on his farm.

The ratio of cows to pigs on the farm is 2:3

(a) What percentage of the animals on the farm are cows?

(b) What percentage of the animals on the farm are pigs?

Question 4: Olivia has blue, pink and orange counters in a bag.

The ratio of blue to pink to orange counters is 4:5:2

(a) What fraction of the counters are blue?

(b) What fraction of the counters are orange?

Question 5: Chris makes a drink by mixing lemonade and orange juice in the ratio 13:7

(a) What percentage of the drink is lemonade?

(b) What percentage of the drink is orange juice?

Question 6: There are white, red and yellow counters in a box.

The number of white counters, the number of red counters and the number
of yellow counters are in the ratio 2:7:16

What percentage of the counters in the box are red?

Question 7: Cards in a pack are either orange or purple.

80% of the cards are orange.
Write the ratio of orange cards to purple cards.

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Question 8: The counters in a bag are red or yellow.

30% of the counters in the bag are red.
Write the ratio of yellow counters to red counters.

Question 9: Chris designs a Wlag.

20% of the Wlag is white and the rest is pink.
What is the ratio of white to pink?

Question 10: 14% of the students in a class are left handed.

Write down the ratio of left handed to right handed students.

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Question 11: of the beads in a bag are white.
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The rest of the beads are grey.

(a) Write down the ratio of white beads to grey beads.

(b) Write down the ratio of grey beads to white beads.

Question 12: An American football team won a sixth of their matches.

They lost the rest.
Work out the ratio matches won : matches lost

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Question 13: of the apples in a bag are red.
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Write down the ratio of red apples to green apples.

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Question 14: of the buses arriving in a town are late.
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Write down the ratio of on time buses to late buses.

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Question 1: Bethany and Summer are waitresses.

They share the tips in the ratio of the hours they have worked.
Bethany worked from 11am until 5pm.
Summer worked from 1pm until 9pm

What fraction of the tips does Bethany keep?

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Question 2: Oscar and Theo collect coins and stamps.

Altogether they have the same number of coins as stamps.

The ratio of coins Oscar has to coins Theo has is 3:7

The ratio of stamps Oscar has to stamps Theo has is 1:4

Show Theo has more stamps than coins.

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Question 1:

(a) Share £20 in the ratio 2:3 (b) Share 15cm in the ratio 1:2

(c) Divide £24 in the ratio 1:3 (d) Share 35 sweets in the ratio 4:3

(e) Divide 55g in the ratio 3:2 (f) Divide 54kg in the ratio 1:5

(g) Share £210 in the ratio 2:5 (h) Share 120 hours in the ratio 5:7

(i) Share 350m in the ratio 3:7 (j) Divide 360° in the ratio 1:4

Question 2:

(a) Share £104 in the ratio 3:5 (b) Divide 161 miles in the ratio 6:1

(c) Divide 315ml in the ratio 2:7 (d) Share $650 in the ratio 4:9

(e) Share £800 in the ratio 11:14 (f) Share 1200kg in the ratio 3:37

(g) Divide €510 in the ratio 13:2 (h) Share 1116mm in the ratio 1:8

Question 3:

(a) Share £40 in the ratio 1:3:4 (b) Divide 63ml in the ratio 2:3:4

(c) Share 88p in the ratio 2:4:5 (d) Share 180° in the ratio 2:2:5

(e) Divide $165 in the ratio 1:2:12 (f) Share 720cm in the ratio 3:4:2:9

Question 4:

(a) Share 1km in the ratio 2:3 (b) Divide 2m in the ratio 9:1

(c) Divide 1 day in the ratio 1:2 (d) Share 4 minutes in the ratio 2:3

(e) Share £6 in the ratio 1:4 (f) Share €12 in the ratio 7:17

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Question 5: Work out each of the following. You may use a calculator

(a) Share 10ml in the ratio 1:3 (b) Divide 17g in the ratio 2:3

(c) Divide 345ml in the ratio 3:5 (d) Divide £260 in the ratio 5:11

(e) Share 58° in the ratio 2:7 (f) Share 880 seconds in the ratio 2:5:11

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Question 1: Ed has 30 sweets.

The ratio of red sweets to yellow sweets is 2:3
How many red sweets does Ed have?

Question 2: Liam and Nathan share £60 in the ratio 1:3

How much money does each man receive?

Question 3: The ratio of adults to children at a cricket match is 7:3.

There 150 people at the match.
How many children attended the cricket match?

Question 4: Mark is making concrete.

Concrete is made by mixing cement, sand and gravel in the ratio 1:2:3.
Mark wants to make 300kg of concrete.

(a) How much cement does Mark need?

(b) How much sand does Mark need?
(c) How much gravel does Mark need?

Question 5: The angles in a triangle are in the ratio 1:1:4

(a) Find the size of each angle

(b) What type of triangle is it?

Question 6: Dorothy has green and blue beads in the ratio 1:4
Dorothy has 80 beads.

(a) How many blue beads does she have?

(b) What fraction of the beads are green?
(c) What percentage of the beads are blue?
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Question 7: The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 2:3

Ben says there are 28 students in the class.

(a) Explain why Ben must be wrong

(b) Write down a possible number of students in the class

Question 8: At a football match, the ratio of children to adults is 2:7

There are 2700 people in the crowd.
Each adult ticket is £8
Each child ticket costs £3 less than an adult ticket.

Work out the total money made from ticket sales.

Question 9: In a school, all students study one language, French or Spanish.

The ratio of girls to boys in Year 11 is 4:3
¾ of the boys study French
There are 168 students in Year 11.

How many of the boys study Spanish?

Question 10: In a school election there were four candidates: Tom, Rebecca, Olly and Wendy.
540 students voted in the election.

5% of the votes were for Tom

of the votes were for Rebecca

The ratio of the number of votes for Olly to the number of votes to Wendy was 1:2

How many votes were for Wendy?

Question 11: A drink is made by mixing orange juice and lemonade in the ratio 1:4
Lemonade costs 80p per litre
Orange juice costs £1.20 per litre
Work out the cost of making 3 litres of the drink.

Question 12: Hannah baked some chocolate, strawberry and vanilla cupcakes.
She baked four times as many chocolate as strawberry cupcakes.
She baked three times as many chocolate as vanilla cupcakes.
Altogether Hannah made 152 cupcakes.

How many cupcakes of each dlavour did Hannah make?

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Question 13: In a car park the ratio of white cars to black cars is 2:7
The ratio of white cars to red cars is 3:11
Altogether there are 343 white, black and red cars.

How many black cars are in the car park?

Question 14: At a holiday park, guests either stay in a caravan or in a tent.

In 2017 there were 460 guests.
In 2017 the number of guests was 15% greater than in 2016.
The ratio, in 2016, of people staying in a caravan to staying in a tent was 5:3.

How many guests stayed in caravans in 2016?

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Question 1: A drawer contains white socks and black socks only.

The number of white socks to the number of black socks is in the ratio 1:3
There are 12 white socks.

(a) Work out the number of black socks in the drawer.

(b) Work out the total number of socks in the drawer.

Question 2: James has some apples and oranges.

The ratio of apples and oranges is 2:5
He has 15 oranges.
How many apples does James have?

Question 3: The ratio of lemon sweets to strawberry sweets in a tub is 5:3

There are 120 lemon sweets in the tub.
How many strawberry sweets are in the tub?

Question 4: Rachel has some Oirst class and some second class stamps.
The ratio of the number of Oirst class to the number of second class stamps is 3:4
Rachel has 18 Oirst class stamps.

(a) How many second class stamps does Rachel have?

(b) How many stamps does Rachel have in total?

Question 5: Abby, Neil and Dylan share a sum of money in the ratio 2:4:5
Neil receives £60
Work out how much money Dylan receives.

Question 6: The ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys in a school is 9:10
There are 900 boys in the school.

Work out the total number of students in the school.

Question 7: Flour, sugar and butter are mixed in the ratio 6:2:3
How many grams of Olour and sugar are needed to mix with 180g of butter?

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Question 1: Four angles are in the ratio 2:3:4:11

The largest angle is 198°
Show the four angles will Oit together at a point with no gaps.

Question 2: Matthew makes a drink using lemonade and orange juice.

210ml of his drink was lemonade
140ml of his drink was orange juice
Rosie makes more of the drink for a party using the same ratio of lemonade to
orange juice.
Rosie uses 6 litres of lemonade.
How much orange juice does Rosie use?

Question 3: There are red and green apples in a crate.

There are 60 green apples in the crate.
The ratio of the number of red apples to green apples is 1:5
Georgia puts in some more red apples into the crate.
The ratio of the number of red apples to green apples is now 2:3
How many red apples does Georgia put into the crate?

Question 4: Olive has 600 fruit trees.

Some of the trees are apple trees.
The rest of the trees are pears trees and plum trees in the ratio 7:5.
There are 175 plum trees.
Work out what fraction of the trees are apple trees.

Question 5: Two numbers are in the ratio 4:3

One of the numbers is 1.8
What are the two possible values for the other number?

Question 6: Jason, Katie and Leonard share some money.

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Jason gets of the money.
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Jason gives 45% of his share of the money to his mother.
He has £198 left.
How much more money does Katie receive than Jason?
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Question 1: A bag contains yellow and blue blocks in the ratio 1:3
There are 8 more blue blocks than yellow blocks.
(a) How many yellow blocks are there?
(b) How many blue blocks are there?

Question 2: The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 2:3

There are 6 more girls than boys in the class.
How many girls are in the class?

Question 3: Thomas and Emma share some money in the ratio 3:5
Emma receives £30 more than Thomas.
(a) How much money does Emma receive?
(b) How much money does Thomas receive?

Question 4: In a survey, the ratio of the number of people who preferred tea to those who
preferred coffee was 9:5
36 more people preferred tea to coffee.
How many people were in the survey?

Question 5: The ratio of Mollie’s age to Heather’s age is 4:9

Heather is 40 years older than Mollie
How old is Mollie?

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Question 1: A box contains red, purple and green beads in the ratio 4:6:7
There are 1428 more green beads than red beads.
How many green beads are in the box?

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Question 1: In a bag there are blue, green and yellow counters.

The ratio of blue counters to green counters is 3:2
The ratio of green counters to yellow counters is 2:5
(a) Write down the ratio of blue to green to yellow counters in the bag.
(b) What percentage of the beads are green?

Question 2: Archie made some cupcakes for a charity coffee morning.

The ratio of chocolate cupcakes to strawberry cupcakes was 3:1
The ratio of strawberry cupcakes to lemon cupcakes was 2:3

(a) Write down the ratio of chocolate to strawberry to lemon cupcakes.

(b) Work out the smallest possible number of cupcakes that Archie could have
made.

Question 3: At a safari park, the ratio of lions to tigers is 7:4.

The ratio of elephants to tigers is 1:2
Write down the ratio of lions to tigers to elephants in the safari park.

Question 4: A bag contains three different shaped pieces of card.

The ratio of circles to triangles is 2:3

The ratio of triangles to rectangles is 2:5

Find the ratio of circles to triangles to rectangles.

Question 5: In a school, all students are taught either French, German or Spanish.
The ratio of the number of students taught French to those taught German is 3:4
The ratio of the number of students taught French to taught Spanish is 12:11

Find the ratio of the number of students taught Spanish to taught German.

Question 6: In a box there are white chocolates, milk chocolates and dark chocolates.

The ratio of white chocolates to milk chocolates is 3:5

The ratio of milk chocolates to dark chocolates is 8:1

What fraction of the chocolates are white chocolate?

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Question 1: In a drawer, there are white, black and grey socks.

The ratio of white socks to black socks is 3:2
The ratio of white socks to grey socks is 9:4

(a) Write down the ratio of white socks to black socks to grey socks.

Elsie says there is an odd white sock.

(b) Explain why Elsie might be wrong.

Question 2: The ratio of red pens to black pens is 2:9

The ratio of black pens to blue pens is 5:4

Show less than 50% of the pens are black.

Question 3: A quadrilateral, ABCD, is drawn.

The ratio of the size of angle A to angle B is 1:3

The ratio of the size of angle B to angle D is 5:3
The ratio of the size of angle C to angle A is 7:5
Find the difference in size between the largest and smallest angles in
quadrilateral ABCD.

Question 4: The ratio of Scott’s age to Georgia’s age to Fiona’s age is 11:6:7
The ratio of Oscar’s age to Georgia’s age is 3:4

Find the ratio of Fiona’s age to Oscar’s age.

Question 5: Given 4x = 3y and y : z = 1 : 2

Find x in terms of z

Question 6: w is 15% of x

y is ⅗ of x

Find the ratio w:x:y

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Question 1: The table below shows information about the number of medals won by
6 countries in the 2016 Olympic Games.

(a) Write down the ratio of the total number of medals won by Italy to
the total number of medals won by France.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

(b) Write down the ratio of the total number of gold medals won to the
total number of bronze medals won.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Question 2: There are between 30 and 40 sweets in a bag.

Ben and Daisy share the sweets in the ratio 4:5.
There are no sweets remaining in the bag.

How many sweets were in the bag to begin with?

Question 3: George buys some Tirst class and second class stamps to put on some letters.
Each Tirst class stamp costs 67p
Each second class stamp costs 58p
The ratio of Tirst class stamps to second class stamps that he buys is 1:4
George bought 20 stamps.

How much did the stamps cost George?

Question 4: 1,935 people visit a library during one week.

The ratio children : adults is 1 : 4
How many more adults than children visited the library?
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Question 5: The sizes of the interior angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1:3:8
Calculate the difference in size between the largest and smallest angles.

Question 6: Mr Rodgers is organising a trip to a football match for 84 children.

The ratio of teachers on the trip to children on the trip is 1:6
Each bus holds 30 passengers.
Show four buses are needed.

Question 7: Isaac and Victoria share money in the ratio 2:5

Victoria receives £6.60
Work out the difference between how much money Isaac and Victoria receive.

Question 8: Charlotte and Melissa booked theatre tickets costing £180.

They have a voucher that entitles them to 20% off the total price.
Charlotte and Melissa share the total cost of the tickets in the ratio 5:7.

Work out how much more Melissa pays than Charlotte.

Question 9: Barnaby has 288 counters in a bag.

The counters are red, yellow and white.
3
of the counters are red.
8

The other counters are yellow and white in the ratio 1:4

Work out how many counters of each colour there are.

Question 10: The sizes of the interior angles of a pentagon are in the ratio 1:2:5:5:7
Calculate the size of the largest

Question 11: Jack is 10 years old.

Kylie is 17 years old.
Vanessa is 23 years old.
Kylie and Vanessa share £16 in the ratio of their ages.
Kylie gives 20% of her share to Jack.
Vanessa gives a quarter of her share to Jack.
How much money does Jack receive?

Question 12: Two numbers are in the ratio 3:7

One of the numbers is 42
There are two possible values for the other number.
What are the two possible values?

Question 13: Alex is 12 years older than George.

Carl is three times older than Alex
The sum of their ages is 68
Find the ratio of George’s age to Carl’s age to Alex’s age.
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Question 14: Felicity has two boxes of counters, each with an equal ratio of black and white
beads.
In box A, 54 of the beads of black and 36 are white.
There are 162 white beads in box B.

How many beads are there in the two boxes in total?

Question 15: Sophie is making 400 scones.

She uses butter, sugar and Tlour in the ratio 2:1:9
Here are the costs of those ingredients.

The total mass of the butter, sugar and Tlour in each scone is 30g

Work out the total cost of these ingredients for the 400 scones.

Question 16: Copper costs £5 per kilogram.

Zinc costs £3.20 per kilogram.
Copper and zinc are mixed in the ratio 4:1 to make brass.

Work out the cost of 7 kilograms of brass.

Question 17: Geraint has 2p and 50p coins in the ratio 20 : 3

Write the ratio of the value of the 2p coins to the value of 50p coins in its
simplest form.

Question 18: Mrs Chambers is organising a school trip to a museum for year 7 and year 8.
She needs to work out the total cost of the museum tickets and bus hire.
The table below shows the museum ticket prices.

Each bus has 51 seats and costs £125

Altogether 300 students want to go on the trip.

The ratio of the number of students to the number of teachers is 25:1
The ratio of the number of students in year 7 to the number of students in year 8
is 8:7

At the time of the trip, all of the students in year 7 are 11 or 12 years old.
Of year 8 students, the ratio of number of 12 year olds to 13 year olds is 2:3.
Work out the total price of the school trip.

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Question 19: Alannah, Colin and Hannah visit the park and collect conkers and acorns.

In total they collect the same number of conkers and acorns.

Alannah, Colin and Hannah collect conkers in the ratio 4:7:9

Alannah, Colin and Hannah collect acorns in the ratio 3:1:5

(a) Did Hannah collect more conkers or acorns?

(b) What is the lowest possible number of conkers they could have collected?

Question 20: A bag contains red, yellow and blue beads.

The ratio of red beads to yellow beads is 2:3

The ratio of yellow beads to blue beads is 5:4

Work out what fraction of the beads are red.

Question 21: In a box

the number of blue counters and the number green counters are in the ratio 7:4
the number of green counters and the number of red counters are in the ratio 3:1

The total number of counters in the bag is 444.

How many green counters are in the bag?

Question 22: The ratio of the red cards to black cards in a deck is 3:10
2 more red cards are added to the deck.
The ratio of red cards to black cards is now 1:3

Work out the number of black cards in the deck.

Question 23: A is the point with coordinates (3, 20)

B is the point with coordinates (15, 2)
N is a point of the line AB such that AN : NB = 2 : 1

Find the coordinates of the point N.

Question 24: Bag A contains 5x coins.

Bag B contains 3x coins.
8 coins are taken from Bag B and put into Bag A
The ratio of coins in Bag A to Bag B is now 11:5

Work out the total number of coins.

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Question 25: A cone has radius 4cm and perpendicular height of 9cm.
A sphere has a radius of 6cm

Calculate the ratio of the volume of the cone to the volume of the sphere.

Question 26: On 1st March 2001, the ratio of Freddie’s age to his mother’s age was 1:11
On 1st March 2018, the ratio of Freddie’s age to his mother’s age was 2:5
Write the ratio of Freddie’s age to his mother’s age on 1st March 2030

Question 27: The ratio 25 000 000 000 : 500 can be written in the form n : 1
Work out the value of n
Give your answer in standard form

Question 28: The distance of Mercury from the Sun is 5.7 × 107 km
The distance of Neptune from the Sun is 4.3 × 109 km

Work out the ratio of the distance of Mercury from the Sun to the distance
of Neptune from the Sun.

Question 29: Class 10D make some cakes using milk chocolate, dark chocolate or white
chocolate.
Some of the cakes contain nuts and the rest do not.

The ratio of the number of milk chocolate cakes to dark chocolate cakes is 10:3
The ratio of the number of white chocolate cakes to milk chocolate cakes is 1:6
Of the milk chocolate cakes, the ratio of the number of cakes containing nuts to
not containing nuts is 1:8
Of the dark chocolate cakes, the ratio of the number of cakes containing nuts to
not containing nuts is 3:2
Of the white chocolate cakes, the ratio of the number of cakes containing nuts to
not containing nuts is 2:5
What percentage of the cakes contain nuts?
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