GCSE Ratio Exercises: Exercise 1
GCSE Ratio Exercises: Exercise 1
GCSE Ratio Exercises: Exercise 1
Exercise 2
5. To make orange squash I mix concentrate and
water in the ratio 2:7. If I use 150ml of 1. For each of the following, determine the ratio
concentrate, how much water do I use? 𝑎: 𝑐.
a. 𝑎: 𝑏 = 1: 2, 𝑏: 𝑐 = 3: 4
6. 120 sweets are shared out into three piles, in b. 𝑎: 𝑏 = 4: 3, 𝑏: 𝑐 = 5: 2
the ratio 3:4:1. How many more sweets does c. 𝑎: 𝑏 = 1: 2, 𝑏: 𝑐 = 1: 2
the biggest pile have than the smallest? d. 𝑎: 𝑏 = 4: 3, 𝑏: 𝑐 = 4: 3
e. 𝑎: 𝑏 = 11: 2, 𝑏: 𝑐 = 7: 11
2. The ratio of boys to girls at a party is
7. The ratio of boys to girls at a birthday party is
1 : 2. Of the boys, a quarter brought a present
4: 5. If there are 35 girls, how many boys are
with them. What fraction of attendees are
there?
boys who brought a present?
8. The ratio of boys to girls at another party is
3. [JMC 2010 Q10] At the Marldon Apple-Pie-
5: 7. There are 8 more girls than boys. How
Fayre bake-off, prize money is awarded for 1st,
many boys are there?
2nd and 3rd places in the ratio 3: 2: 1. Last year
Mrs Keat and Mr Jewell shared third prize
9. The ratio of the probability of heads to
equally. What fraction of the total prize
probability of tails on an unfair coin is 1: 4.
money did Mrs Keat receive?
What is the probability of heads?
4. [Edexcel GCSE(9-1) Mock Set 3 Autumn 2017
10. The ratio of the angles in a quadrilateral are
2F Q24b, 2H Q6b]
7: 4: 5: 2. What is the smallest angle?
Only blue vans and white vans are made in a
factory. The ratio of the number of blue vans
11. [JMC 2012 Q17] There are six more girls than
to the number of white vans is 4 : 3 For blue
boys in Miss Spelling’s class of 24 pupils. What
vans, the number of small vans : the number
is the ratio of girls to boys in this class?
of large vans = 3 : 5
Work out the fraction of the number of vans
made in the factory that are blue and large.
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5. [JMC 2006 Q23] At a holiday camp, the ratio Exercise 3
of boys to girls is 3: 4 and the ratio of girls to
1. The ratio of red to blue counters is
adults is 5: 7. What is the ratio of children to
2 : 5 and there are 40 blue counters. When I
adults at the camp?
remove some red counters the ratio is now
A 4: 5 B 5: 4 C 12: 7
1 : 4. How many red counters did I remove?
D 15: 28 E 21: 20