Exercise 1 (on provided worksheet)
1 Simplify the following ratios: 6 120 sweets are shared out into three
a 2:6 = 1:3 ? b 10:15 = 2:3 ? piles, in the ratio [Link]. How many more
c 24:18 = 4:3 ? d 56 : 49 = 8:7 ? sweets does the biggest pile have than
the smallest? 45
?
2 Simplify the following:
a ? 7 The ratio of boys to girls at a birthday
party is . If there are 35 girls, how
b
? many boys are there?
3 What is the ratio of
shaded to non-shaded
28
?
(small) triangles? 8 The ratio of boys to girls at another party
2:6=1:3 is . There are 8 more girls than boys.
? How many boys are there?
20
4 If $30 is split between two people in ?
the ratio 3:2, what does each get? The ratio of the probability of heads to
$18,?$12 9
probability of tails on an unfair coin is
. What is the probability of heads?
5 To make orange squash I mix
concentrate and water in the ratio ?
2:7. If I use 150ml of concentrate, 10 The ratio of the angles in a quadrilateral
how much water do I use? are . What is the smallest angle?
?
525ml ?
Exercise 1 (on provided worksheet)
11 There are six more girls than boys in 14 If , find .
Miss Spelling’s class of 24 pupils.
What is the ratio of girls to boys in
?
this class? 15 The ratio of red to blue to green marbles
5:3 in a bag is 3 : 10 : 4. If there are 39 red
? and blue marbles altogether, how many
12 Three –quarters of the junior green marbles are there?
members of a tennis club are boys ? 12
Solution:
and the rest are girls. What is the
ratio of boys to girls among these 16 Joseph’s flock has 55% more sheep than
members? goats. What is the ratio of goats to sheep
in the flock? Solution: 20:31
A B C
?
D E ? E
Solution:
13 An athletics club has junior (i.e. boy 17
or girl) members and adult members. In rectangle , the ratio of to
The ratio of girls to boys to adults is 3 is . What is the size of ?
: 4 : 9 and there are 16 more adult A B C
members than junior members. In D E
total, how many members does the
club have? Solution: Two angles add to . So 6 parts = 90 1
128 ? part = . Thus ?
Combining and Subdividing Ratios
One new type of question to the 2017+ GCSE
syllabus is combining two ratios into one:
The ratio of to is . The ratio of to is .
What is the ratio ?
Tip: Give each variable a
column. To be able to combine
the ratios into one, we need the
’s to be the same. But we
know we can scale ratios!
Further Example
The ratio of red to blue counters is and ratio of
blue to green counters . What is the ratio of red to
green counters?
So ratio of red to green is
Test Your Understanding
24 15? 20
Subdividing a Ratio
All students study either French or Spanish.
The ratio of boys to girls is . Of the girls, the ratio
studying French to those studying Spanish is .
What fraction of the students are girls studying
Spanish?
The easiest method is to turn the ratios in fractions.
(a) What fraction of students are girls? 4 parts out of ?
𝟒
7
𝟕
(b) What fraction of girls study Spanish? 1 part out of 3?
𝟏
𝟑
(c) Therefore what fraction of the students are girls studying Spanish?
of the of the students are Spanish-speaking girls.
Recall that we can replace
? the word ‘of’ with × when
dealing with fractions of
amounts.
Test Your Understanding
𝟕 𝟕 𝟐
Emma and Dave shared of the money. Of this , Dave gets of it.
𝟏𝟎 𝟏𝟎 𝟓
?
Exercise 2 (on provided worksheet)
4
1 For each of the following, determine the Only blue vans and white vans are made in a factory.
ratio . The ratio of the number of blue vans to the number
a of white vans is 4 : 3 For blue vans, the number of
b small vans : the number of large vans = 3 : 5
c Work out the fraction of the number of vans made
d
?
𝟐𝟎
in the factory that are blue and large. Solution:
e 𝟓𝟔
2 The ratio of boys to girls at a party is 1 : 2. At a holiday camp, the ratio of boys to girls is
Of the boys, a quarter brought a present 5 and the ratio of girls to adults is . What is the
with them. What fraction of attendees are ratio of children to adults at the camp?
boys who brought a present? A B C
D E
3 At the Marldon Apple-Pie-Fayre bake-off,
prize money is awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd The ratio of cats to dogs at a rescue centre is 2 : 3.
places in the ratio . Last year Mrs 6 Of the cats, 25% are black and of the dogs, 50% are
Keat and Mr Jewell shared third prize black. What percentage of the total animals are
equally. What fraction of the total prize black?
money did Mrs Keat receive?
