A ratio shows the relative sizes of 2 or more values and allows you to compare a part with another part in a whole

Checking and securing understanding of converting between ratios, percentages and fractions

Maths

In the compound measures unit, pupils will be exploring the multiplicative relationship between different compound measures. Ratio will be one of the ways in which this is explored and the skills from this unit will aid understanding.

The ratio unit will cover comparing fractions, percentages and ratios and being able to move fluently between them. The percentages unit ensured pupils had the opportunity to work with finding the percentage of an amount and the opportunity to calculate interest.

Ratio

There are only red and green sweets in a bag. If the ratio of red to green is 2 : 5 what fraction of the sweets in the bag are red?

There are only cars or bikes in a car park. If 20% are bikes, what is the ratio of cars : bikes?

There are only red, yellow and green marbles in a bag. If $$\frac{1}{2}$$ are red, $$\frac{1}{6}$$ are yellow, write the ratio of red to yellow to green marbles.

A bag of sweets contains red, yellow and green sweets.
There are 180 sweets in the bag.
25% of them are red.
The rest are yellow and green in the ratio 7 : 2
How many yellow sweets are there?

Laura and Sofia share some money in the ratio 3 : 5 
Laura gives $$\frac{2}{5}$$ of her money to Jacob.
If Jacob gets £24, how much does Sofia get?

Jacob, Andeep and Lucas receive some money.
Jacob gets $$\frac{3}{5}$$ of the money.
Andeep and Lucas share the rest in the ratio 5 : 2
What proportion of the prize money does Andeep get?

Select the ratios that are equivalent to 5 : 7.

Alex and Sofia share some money in the ratio 5 : 7.
They share £420 in total.
How much does Sofia get?

Alex and Sofia share some money in the ratio 5 : 7.
Alex gets £420.
How much does Sofia get?

Alex and Sofia share some money in the ratio 5 : 7.
Sofia gets £420.
How much did they share in total?

Alex and Sofia share some money in the ratio 5 : 7.
Sofia gets £420 more than Alex.
How much did Alex get?

Izzy, Laura and Jun share some money in the ratio of 7 : 3 : 2.
Jun gets £60 less than Laura.
How much does Izzy receive?

Starter Quiz