Ratio

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A series of questions on ratio parts
Elaine Baskerville
Quiz by Elaine Baskerville , updated more than 1 year ago
Elaine Baskerville
Created by Elaine Baskerville over 5 years ago
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Question 1

Question
In your workplace there are 6 female staff to 4 male staff. Write the correct ratio of female to male staff (in it's simplest form)
Answer
  • 4:6
  • 6:4
  • 2:3
  • 3:2

Question 2

Question
A nursery school has a carer to child ratio of 1: 6 If they have 12 carers, what is the maximum number of children they can take?
Answer
  • 2
  • 18
  • 72
  • 84

Question 3

Question
Orange squash should be diluted in a ratio of 1 part squash to 5 parts water. If I use 200ml of squash, how much water should I add?
Answer
  • 40ml
  • 100ml
  • 1200ml
  • 1 litre

Question 4

Question
A kitchen sanitiser has to be mixed using 1 part sanitiser to 4 parts water. How much sanitiser should I add to 1 litre of water?
Answer
  • 4000ml
  • 200ml
  • 250ml
  • 400ml

Question 5

Question
I need to make pink paint. The instructions say to mix 2 parts red paint with 5 parts white paint. If I have 800ml of white paint, how much red paint do I need?
Answer
  • 500ml
  • 320ml
  • 160ml
  • 114ml

Question 6

Question
Weed killer has to be mixed using 3parts weed killer to 4 parts water. How much weed killer should I add to 1 litre of water?
Answer
  • 3 litres
  • 750ml
  • 250ml
  • 1 litre

Question 7

Question
I am making a mocktail of orange juice and cranberry juice. I need to mix 3 parts orange juice with 2 parts cranberry juice. How much orange juice do I need to add to 500ml of cranberry juice?
Answer
  • 1000ml
  • 250ml
  • 750ml
  • 1250ml

Question 8

Question
A restaurant manager is going to paint the walls of his restaurant green. He needs to mix yellow paint and blue paint in a ratio of 9:3  He needs to make 18L of paint in total. How much yellow paint will he need?
Answer
  • 13.5L
  • 4.5L
  • 6L
  • 162L

Question 9

Question
I am making a mocktail of orange juice and cranberry juice. I need to mix 3 parts orange juice with 2 parts cranberry juice. If I want to make a litre of mocktail, how much orange juice will I need
Answer
  • 3 litres
  • 2 litres
  • 600ml
  • 400ml

Question 10

Question
The ratio of men, women and children members of a leisure centre is 2:3:1. If there are 534 members in total, how many are women?
Answer
  • 178
  • 267
  • 89
  • 134

Question 11

Question
A chef makes a special breakfast cereal mix using rice, wheat and corn in a ratio of 4:3:5. He needs to make 230 servings. He knows that 1kg of finished cereal mix makes 16 servings. How much rice does he need to use for 230 servings? (give your answer to 2 decimal places)
Answer
  • 14.375kg
  • 1.198kg
  • 4.79kg
  • 2.76kg

Question 12

Question
A barman is making a cocktail using champagne, raspberry liqueur and passion fruit juice in a ratio of 7:2:1. He has to make 175 glasses in total. He knows that 1 litre of finished cocktail will fill 4 glasses. How much raspberry liqueur will he need in total to make all 175 cocktails.
Answer
  • 43.75 litres
  • 4.375 litres
  • 30.625 litres
  • 8.75 litres
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