Ali has $8$ bags of sweets containing red sweets and yellow sweets only. The ratio of red sweets: yellow sweets in Bag A is $1:3$.

The ratios of red sweets:yellow sweets in each of the other bags are listed below.

$1:5$                            $2:1$                              $2:5$                                   $4:13$                             $3:1$                            $1:1$                                $2:11$

Identify the bags that have a greater proportion of yellow sweets than Bag A

 

Sasha and Eva mix yellow paint and blue paint to make green paint

Whose paint contains the greater proportion of blue paint. Show your working. 

A cinema shows two films on Tuesday afternoon. Both films were watched by adults and children.

Show which film was watched by a greater proportion of children

A shade of pink paint is made by mixing red paint and white paint in the ratio $2:3$

Find a ratio of red:white paint that will make:

a darker shade of pink

a paler shade of pink.

Here is a rectangle made of small squares.

Shade the small squares in black, grey and white so that the ratio of black to grey to white squares is $4:3:1$

The ratio of small squares of black, grey and white is $4:3:1$.Write the fraction of the rectangle that is grey, in its simplest form.

Share each amount in the given ratio: 

Amount                                   Ratio                                     Answer

$\$160$                                     $3:2$                                  $\$x$ and $\$y$.

Find the value of $x$ and $y$.

Amount                                   Ratio                                     Answer

$\$320$                                     $3:5$                                  $\$x$ and $\$y$.

Find the value of $x$ and $y$.

Amount                                   Ratio                                     Answer

$\$48$                                     $1:2:3$                                  $\$x,\$y$ and $\$z$.

Find the value of $x,y$ and $z$.