Ratio Questions Y6

Word Problems (ratio & proportion) Year 6

1

In class 5 there are 2 girls

for every 3 boys. There

are 30 children in the

class. How many boys are

there?


2

In a box of 48 oranges 1 in

every 6 oranges is rotten.

How many rotten oranges

are there?


3

Sam mixes 1 tin of blue

paint with 4 tins of white.

He uses 15 tins of paint

altogether. How many tins

of blue paint does he use?


4

To make play dough you

need 2 cups of flour to

every 1 cup of salt. How

many cups of salt would

you need if you

used 10 cups of

flour?


5

At the swimming club

there are 3 boys for every

4 girls. How many girls are

there if there are 21 boys?


6

John and Ken use the telephone a lot. John makes 4

calls for every 6 that Kenmakes. They make 260 calls

altogether. How many calls do

John and Ken each make?


7

A builder mixes one part of cement with four parts ofsand to make mortar. If he mixes up 100 kg altogether,how much is cement?How much is sand?


8

Here is a pattern of squares

What is the proportion of white squares in the whole pattern?


9

In a box of sweets, there are 3 boiled sweets to every 2 mints.If there are 25 sweets in the box altogether, how many of them are boiled sweets and how many are mints?


10

When Harry plays darts he

misses the board 3 times to

every 5 times he hits it. One

evening, he throws 120

times. How many times

Does he hit the board?


11

There are 7 milk

chocolates to every 4 dark

in a box of 33 chocolates.

How many milk and dark

chocolates are in the box ?


12

To make Acifed plant

fertiliser, you should mix

150ml of Acifed with every

4.5l of water. What is the

ratio of Acifed to water?


13

Answers1. 18 boys 8. ½2. 8 oranges 9. 15 boiled, 10

mints3. 3 tins 10. 75 hits4. 5 cups 11. 21 milk, 12 dark5. 28 girls 12. 1:306. J – 104, K - 156 calls 7. 20kg cement, 80kg sand

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Ratio Questions Y6