Understanding Ratios - Word Problems

*Focus on solving the problems

** Use scrap paper to set the problem up as a proportion so as to help match the units in each ratio.

Mult-Step: We have to read this carefully. How many total problems were there if she had 8 finished? The student would have 2 still left, so there would be 10 total problems.

Mult-Step: You will have to first find how many books were non-fiction.

Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Mult-Step:

"What is the combined amount?"

Mult-Step: You will need to first find how many songs were helpt.

Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Mult-Step:

"What is the combined amount?"

Mult-Step: You will need to first find how many problems she had left to do.

Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.