MATHEMATICS FORM 2~ CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 5 : RATIOS,RATES AND PROPORTIONS

RATIO OF TWO QUANTITIES

ratios :
a)

xy: :yxx

b) =

A. Write the following ratios in the form a:b.

a) 8 cm to 15 cm
___________
c) 5 months to 1 year
_______________

yx : xy yx

b) 12 kg to 7 kg
____________
d) 23 minutes to 1 hour
_________________

B. Write the following ratios in a the form .

b
a) 3 seconds to 4 seconds
b) 8 days to 11 days
________________
______________
c) 6 cm to 0.17 m
d) 31 g to 0.09 kg
________________
______________

c)

d)

r : s 11 : 7 F. Given , write the following

ratios:
r :sr:
r
s
a)
b)

r r :sr: r s s

c)

d)

G. State whether each of the following pairs of quantities are a propotion.

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a) 5 kg : 10 kg and RM15 :
RM30
b) 4 cm : 9 cm and 36 cm:
81cm

C. Determine whether the following pairs of ratios are equivalent.

EXAMPLE:
4 : 5 and 20 : 25
4 : 5 = 4 X 5 : 5 X 5
= 20 : 25

or 20 : 25 = 20 5 : 25 5
=4:5

Thus, 4 : 5 and 20 : 25 are equivalent ratios.

a) 2 : 3 and 26 : 39

b) 5 : 8 and 40 : 49

c) 3 : 4 and 36 : 48

d) 7 : 4 and 28 : 20

c) and

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H. Solve the following problems.
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a) Given and , find the value of

.

x : xy y 63 : 4

D. Simplify the following to the lowest terms.

a) 5 : 5 = 1: 1
b) 12 : 6 =__________
c) 16 : 48 = ____________ d) 63 : 28 =_________
x : y 3 : 5 E. Given , state the following

c) The ratio of Jamil's age to

old. How old is Jamil?
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d) and

b) Given and , find the value

of .

5 : 4 Kamal's age is . Kamal is 28 year

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d) The number of boys and 7 : 6 girls in a school is in the ratio .

If there are 364 boys, how
many girls are there?
i) A ribbon of length 120 cm is cut into two portions in the ratio 5 : 3.
Find the length of the longer portion.
e) Wong and Ghani share a sum of money in the ratio 5 : 9. If
Wong receives RM125, what is the amount of money that Ghani
I.
receives?

AB : BC 2 : 3.

A 8 cm B

f) In the diagram,

Solve the following problems.

aa:
bab
13
b 24
:5

a) Given and , find the value

of .

b) A basket contains guavas and watermelons in the ratio 5 : 8.

The number of watermelons is more than the number of guavas by 9.
Find the total number of fruits in the basket.

Find the length of BC.

c) In the diagram, is a
45 cm
g) The perimeter of a rectangle is 56 cm. The ratio of the width to
the length is 5: 9. Find the length of the rectangle.

h) Miss lee divided 154 stamps between Karen and Lina in the ratio
3 : 4. Calculate the number of stamps received by Karen.

PQRS straight line.

PQ : QS 2 : 7

Given
Find the length of RS.

d) The ratio of the area of square P to the area of square Q is 9 : 16.

Given that the length of sides of square P is 6 cm, find the length
of sides of square Q.
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ab : bc 5748 : 4563

RATIO OF THREE QUANTITIES

a : b : c following quantities in the form
b) 14mm to 5mm to 2cm

A. Write the ratio of the

a) 2 kg to 5 kg to 9 kg
2:5:9

e) and f) and

F. a) The ratio of Ali's marks to Haziq's marks is 5 : 4. The ratio of Haziq's

marks to Chandra's marks is 6 : 7. Find the ratio of Ali's marks to
Haziq's marks to Chandra's marks.

c) 1 year to 3 months to 8 months d) 5 days to 1 week to 10 days

G. Solve the following.
e) RM1 to 75 sen to 25 sen

f) 900 g to 1.2 kg to 0.6 kg

x : y :xzyz36
3: 4 :9

a) Given and , find the

values of and .

B. State whether the following ratios are equivalentn ratios.

a) 3 : 5 : 9 and 9 : 15 : 27
b) 2 : 3: 5 and 4 : 6: 15
Yes
c) 4 : 16 : 28 and 5 : 20 : 35

b) The age of Adam, John and David are in the ratio 3 : 5 : 1. The sum
Of their ages is 99 years. How old is David?

d) 6 : 21 : 36 and 2 : 7 : 13

C. Simplify each of the following to the lowest term.

a) 4 : 8 : 12
b) 5 : 15 : 10
c) 9 : 21 : 45
d) 16 : 20 : 48
________
_________ __________
__________
c) RM 1 800 is divided three students in the ratio 4 : 3 : 5.
How much does each student get?

a : b : c 3 : 4 : 5 D. Given , find the ratio of

the following
abc:::ccaa
:b____
___

____
a) _____
b) c) d)

E. Find the ratio a: b :c

ab : bc 47
63 : 79
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a) and

bab::cbc 4592::11
783

c) and

b) and
d) Edri, Fong and Ganesh donated some money to acharity fund
In the ratio 2 : 5 : 8. The difference in the amount donated by
Edri and Fong is RM 15. What is the amount donated by Ganesh?
d) and
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H. Solve each of the following.

p : qp :rq745
:2:5

a) Given and
Find the value of

c) The diagram shows a triangle.

pqr
P
Q

R
35 cm

r : st :t r8 33
: 5 : 11

b) Given and
Find the value of

Given . Calculate the PQ : QR : RP 4 : 7 : 6

r s t difference in length
between PQ and RP.

I.

Solve the following.

a) An amount of money is 2 : 1 : 4 divided in the ratio .
The differencebetween the
largest and the smallest part is
RM270.
Find the total amount of money.
d) The number of books in box P, box Q and box R is in the ratio
. The total number of books 2 : 3 : 4 in box Q and box R is 30
more than the number of
books in box P. Calculate the total
number of books in the three boxes.

b) Nora, Ros and Yani answered some Science questions in the

ratio . Nora answered 49 7 : 5 : x questions. If the total number
of questions answered by
them is 105, find the value of x.
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