Year 8 Ratio and Rates
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Question 1
Are the ratios 3 :1 and 12 : 10 equivalent?
Yes or No?

Question 2
Simplify 15 : 12
:
Question 3
Simplify 3.5 : 1.5
:
Question 4
Simplify 3 : 
:
½
Question 5
Simplify 2⅓ : 1
:
Question 6
Simplify 1 m : 20 cm
:
Question 7
A school has 650 girls and 500 boys.What is the ratio of boys to girls?
:
Question 8
A bricklayer mixes sand and cement in the ratio 5 : 2 by volume. If he uses 5 buckets of cement, how muchsand should he use? (answer as a decimal)  
buckets
Question 9
Jack and Jill decide to share the profits from their business in the ratio of their investments. If Jack invests $9000 and Jill invests $5000, how much should Jill receive if Jack Receives $3600
$
Question 10
A school consists of boys and girls in the ratio 4 : 3If there are 560 students in the school, find how many boys and girls there are in the school.
boys
girls
Question 11
$40 is divided between Jack and Jill in the ratio 2:3.
What is each person's share?

Jack's share   $

Jill's share      $    
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Question 1
Two brothers Bill and Ted are to divide $1890between them in the ratio 5 : 4How much does each receive?

Ted gets $
Bill gets $
Question 2
Express the following rate in simplest form
A woman travels 210 km in 3 hours

km/hour
Question 3
Express the following rate in simplest form
500 sheep are grazed on 200 hectares
sheep/hectare
Question 4
Express the following rate in simplest form
$25 for 5 kg
$
/kg
Question 5
Express the following rate in simplest form
$160 is paid for 20 hours worked
$
/hour
Question 6
Convert this rate to the rate indicated
20 mL/second = 
L/hour
Question 7
Convert this rate to the rate indicated
600 L/hour = 

L/minute
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