In a bag there are blue sweets and red sweets. The ratio of blue sweets to red sweets is 5:3 What fraction of the sweets are blue?
5 parts equal blue so 5/8 is the answer (5+3=8).
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In a bag there are blue sweets, red sweets and green sweets. The ratio of blue sweets to red sweets to green sweets is 5:3:2 What fraction of the sweets are green?
5+3+2=10 so the answer must be 2/10 or 1/5 as there are 2 green sweets.
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In a bag there are blue sweets, red sweets and green sweets. The ratio of blue sweets to red sweets to green sweets is 6:9:4 What fraction of the sweets are blue?
6 parts are blue and there are 19 parts in total so the answer is 6/19.
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In a bag there are only red sweets and yellow sweets. of the sweets are red. Write down the ratio of red sweets to yellow sweets?
2/3 parts are red and 1/3 are yellow so the ration is 2:1.
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In a bag there are only blue sweets and green sweets. of the sweets are green. Write down the ratio of blue sweets to green sweets?
3/5 parts are red and 2/5 are yellow so the ratio is 3:2
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In a bag there are only red sweets and yellow sweets. of the sweets are red. Write down the ratio of red sweets to yellow sweets?
5/6 parts are green and 1/6 are blue so the ratio of blue:green is 1:5
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In a cinema the ratio of adults to children is 3:1 The ratio of boys to girls is 3:2 What fraction of all the people in the cinema are girls?
3+1=4, adults to children are 3/4:1/4. 3+2=5, boys to girls are 3/5:2/5. 2/5 of 1/4 = 2/20 = 1/10
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In a theatre the ratio of adults to children is 7:3 The ratio of boys to girls is 3:2 What percentage of all the people in the cinema are girls?
7+3=10 ; 3+2=5. 7/10 adults and 3/10 children. Out of 3/10, 3/5 are boys and 2/5 are girls. 2/5 of 3/10 = 6/50 = 12/100 = 12%
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In a bag there are blue sweets, red sweets and green sweets. The ratio of blue sweets to red sweets to green sweets is 5:3:2 What fraction of the sweets are green?
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5+3+2=10 so the answer must be 2/10 or 1/5 as there are 2 green sweets.
Card 3
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In a bag there are blue sweets, red sweets and green sweets. The ratio of blue sweets to red sweets to green sweets is 6:9:4 What fraction of the sweets are blue?
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Card 4
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In a bag there are only red sweets and yellow sweets. of the sweets are red. Write down the ratio of red sweets to yellow sweets?
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Card 5
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In a bag there are only blue sweets and green sweets. of the sweets are green. Write down the ratio of blue sweets to green sweets?
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