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WRM Y10 Spring b4 Ratio Fractions Higher Assessment A

The document contains 8 math word problems involving ratios and fractions. The problems cover a range of topics including ratios comparing numbers of students and adults, ratios of counters in bags, ratios comparing people at events, comparing value for money of food packages, finding missing values based on ratio relationships, finding ratios comparing ages of people and volumes and surface areas of similar solids.

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WRM Y10 Spring b4 Ratio Fractions Higher Assessment A

The document contains 8 math word problems involving ratios and fractions. The problems cover a range of topics including ratios comparing numbers of students and adults, ratios of counters in bags, ratios comparing people at events, comparing value for money of food packages, finding missing values based on ratio relationships, finding ratios comparing ages of people and volumes and surface areas of similar solids.

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Year 10 H

Ratio and Fractions


A

Name

1 The ratio of boys to girls in a school is 3 : 2


What fraction of the students are boys?

1 mark

There are 1200 students in the school.


How many students are girls?

2 marks

The ratio of male to female adults working at the school is 4 : 5


80 male adults work at the school.
How many female adults work at the school?

2 marks

2 In a bag there are only red counters and blue counters.


3
of the counters are red.
4
Write down the ratio of red counters to blue counters.

1 mark
3 At a book fair, the ratio of adults to children is 7 : 3
The ratio of girls to boys at the book fair is 4 : 1
What percentage of the people at the book fair are boys?
A

2 marks

Pack of 4 tins Pack of 9 tins


£2.72 £6.39

A pack of 4 tins of beans costs £2.72


A pack of 9 tins of beans costs £6.39
Which pack gives the better value for money?
Justify your answer.

2 marks
5 𝑎 and 𝑏 are integers.

𝑎 ∶ 𝑏 is equal to 5 ∶ 7
𝑏 − 𝑎 = 40
A
Work out the value of 𝑎 + 𝑏.

3 marks

6 The circumference of circle B is 70% of the circumference of circle A.


Work out the ratio of the area of circle A to the area of circle B.

2 marks
7 Bill is twice as old as Adam.
Charlie is 3 years younger than Bill.
The sum of their three ages is 27
Find the ratio of Adam’s age to Charlie’s age, giving your answer in the
form 1 ∶ 𝑛.
A

3 marks

8 Two solid shapes, X and Y, are similar.


The ratio of the volume of solid X to the volume of solid Y is 64 ∶ 125
The surface area of solid Y is 80 cm2.
Find the surface area of solid X.

2 marks

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