UNIT 11

20 marks from 20 questions

Question 1 Question 2

On a school excursion the teacher to learner ratio is Jad and Layla inherited a sum of money in the
1 : 15. ratio 3 : 2.

If 165 learners are going on the excursion, how If Jad inherited $1200 how much did Layla get?
many teachers are needed?
3 parts = $1200
Number of teachers = So 1 part = $400

Layla's 2 parts = $

Question 3 Question 4

Salma mixes water and juice concentrate in the In a display at the Easter Show the ratio of apples to
ratio 4 : 1. oranges is 4 : 7.

What is the total amount of juice drink she can If there are 56 oranges, how many apples are in
make from 1 litre of juice concentrate? the display?

litre

Question 5 Question 6

A sum of money is divided between three people in

the ratio 1 : 2 : 0.5.

The smallest share is $48. What is the total sum of

money?
A recipe for a cake to serve six people requires: 400
$ g butter, 320 g sugar, two 60 g eggs and 800 g
flour.

Calculate the total amount of each ingredient

needed to make a bigger cake for nine people.

g butter

g sugar

eggs

g flour
Question 7 Question 8

The dimensions of a rectangular box are in the This length of this rectangular prism is 1 times
ratio 2 : 4 : 5, where height is the smallest
the height.
dimension.

What is the height of the box if its volume

is 2560 cm3?

Height = cm

If the ratio of length to width is 9 : 5, what is the

ratio of width to height?

Question 9 Question 10

The ratio of the number of marbles in the red bag Five calculators cost $65.
to the number in the blue bag is 3 : 5.
To find the cost of three calculators you need to
work out:

a. 65 × 12
b. 65 ÷ 12 × 5
c. 65 ÷ 5 × 3

Two marbles are moved from the blue bag to the

red bag, making the ratio 7 : 9.

How many marbles are there in total?

Question 11 Question 12

The amount of money Jai earns is directly

proportional to the hours he works.

If he earns $40 in six hours, how much will he earn

The pairs of numbers in this table are:
in 18 hours?
a. inversely proportional
$
b. directly proportional
Question 13 Question 14

Ten trucks need to take 23 loads each to move In Arun's Physics text book, it says:
some sand.
'Over a given distance, time and speed are inversely
After each truck has completed five loads, one truck proportional.'
breaks down.
A particle takes three minutes to travel a given
How many loads will each remaining truck have distance at a speed of 15 metres per minute.
moved once the job is complete?
What would its speed have to be to take only 20
To complete the job, the broken down truck moved seconds to cover the same distance?
five loads and each of the other trucks moved
loads. Be careful with units.

Speed = metres per minute

Question 15 Question 16

Sally is travelling at an average speed of 72 km/h

and takes 4 h 12 min to travel from A to B. The time it takes to walk to school is directly
proportional to the distance from home to school.
How long would the same journey take if the
average speed was increased to 80 km/h? Amira lives twice as far from school as Marat.

Answer to the nearest minute. Which of these statements is true?

The journey would take hours a. Amira will take twice as long as Marat to walk to
school.
minutes.

b. Amira will take half as long as Marat to walk to

school.

Question 17 Question 18

A rectangle has a fixed area of 100 cm2. The length Two horses should have 3 acres of land for grazing.
of the rectangle is multiplied by three.
How much land would 11 horses need?
What happens to the width of the rectangle?
acres
a. It is multiplied by three.

b. It stays the same.

c. It is divided by three.
Question 19 Question 20

Tins of paint are packed into boxes. The length and width of a rectangle are each
Each box takes 24 tins of paint. multiplied by 1.5.

How many boxes are needed to pack 168 tins of What happens to the perimeter of the rectangle?
paint?
a. It stays the same.
boxes
b. It is divided by 1.5.

c. It is multiplied by 1.5.

d. It is multiplied by 3.