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1 Alex, Bobbie and Chris share strawberries in the ratio Alex : Bobbie : Chris = 3 : 2 : 2.
Chris receives 12 strawberries.
Calculate the total number of strawberries shared.
................................................... [2]
[Total: 2]
2 Share $608 in the ratio 4 : 5 : 7.
$ ...................................................
$ ...................................................
$ ................................................... [3]
[Total: 3]
3 On one journey, all 56 seats on a bus are filled.
The ratio of adults to children on this journey is adults : children = 5 : 3.
The cost for an adult ticket is $2.80 .
The cost for a child ticket is of the adult cost.
Work out the total cost of the tickets for this journey.
$ ................................................... [4]
[Total: 4]
4 The table shows the numbers of tigers reported to be living in the wild in the year 2014 in some countries.
Country Number
India 2226
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Indonesia 371
Nepal 198
Bangladesh 106
(a) Using the table,
(i) find the number of tigers in Nepal as a percentage of the number of tigers in Bangladesh,
................................................... % [1]
(ii) find the ratio tigers in Bangladesh : tigers in Indonesia : tigers in India, giving your answer in
its simplest form.
.................... : .................... : .................... [2]
(b) Five years later, the number of tigers reported in India was 2967.
Find the percentage increase in the population of tigers in India.
................................................... % [2]
(c) The number of tigers in India in the year 2014 is approximately 30.48% greater than in the year 2010.
Find the number of tigers in India in the year 2010.
Give your answer correct to the nearest integer.
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[Total: 8]
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5 Of the 852 workers in a company, the ratio part-time workers : full-time workers = 5 : 7.
Calculate the number of full-time workers.
................................................... [2]
[Total: 2]
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Painter Plumber Electrician
$48 per hour
$35 per hour Fixed charge $40
for the first 2 hours
plus then
$26.50 per hour $32 per hour
These are the rates charged by a painter, a plumber and an electrician who do some work for Mr Sharma.
(a) The painter works for 7 hours.
Calculate the amount Mr Sharma pays the painter.
$ ................................................... [1]
(b) Mr Sharma pays the plumber $252.
Calculate how many hours the plumber works.
................................................... hours [2]
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(c) Mr Sharma pays the electrician $224.
Calculate how many hours the electrician works.
................................................... hours [2]
(d) Write down the ratio of the amount Mr Sharma pays to the painter, the plumber and the electrician.
Give your answer in its lowest terms.
painter : plumber : electrician = .............................. : .............................. : .............................. [2]
[Total: 7]
7 Arjun and Gretal each pay rent.
In 2018, the ratio of the amount each paid in rent was Arjun : Gretal = 5 : 7.
In 2019, the ratio of the amount each paid in rent was Arjun : Gretal = 9 : 13.
Arjun paid the same amount of rent in both 2018 and 2019.
Gretal paid $290 more rent in 2019 than she did in 2018.
Work out the amount Arjun paid in rent in 2019.
$ ................................................... [4]
[Total: 4]
8 The visitors to a campsite today are in the ratio
men : women = 5 : 4 and women : children = 3 : 7.
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(a) Calculate the ratio men : women : children in its simplest form.
.................... : .................... : .................... [2]
(b) Today there are 224 children at the campsite.
Calculate the total number of men and women.
................................................... [3]
[Total: 5]
9 Divide $24 in the ratio 7 : 5.
$ .............................. , $ .............................. [2]
[Total: 2]
10 One day, a newspaper had 60 pages of news and advertisements.
The ratio number of pages of news : number of pages of advertisements = 5 : 7.
(a) Calculate the number of pages of advertisements.
................................................... [2]
(b) Write the number of pages of advertisements as a percentage of the number of pages of news.
................................................... % [1]
[Total: 3]
11 The fares for a train journey are shown in the table below.
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From London to Marseille Standard fare Premier fare
Adult $84 $140
Child $60 $96
(a) For the standard fare, write the ratio adult fare : child fare in its simplest form.
.............................. : .............................. [1]
(b) For an adult, find the percentage increase in the cost of the standard fare to the premier fare.
................................................... % [3]
(c) For one journey from London to Marseille, the ratio
number of adults : number of children = 11 : 2.
There were 220 adults in total on this journey.
All of the children and 70% of the adults paid the standard fare.
The remaining adults paid the premier fare.
Calculate the total of the fares paid by the adults and the children.
$ ................................................... [5]
[Total: 9]
