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Sheet # 806


1. A recipe for cookies says to use 3 cups of flour for every 2 cups of sugar.If Sara uses 9 cups of flour, how much sugar should she use?

a. 6 cups

b. 9 cups

c. 13½ cups

d. 18 cups


2. Six out of every ten students in the sixth grade own a pair of rollerblades. There are 70 students in the sixth grade. How many sixth grade students own a pair of roller blades?

a. 10 students

b. 30 students

c. 42 students

d. 60 students


3. Renee is arranging flowers in a vase. She wants to have 4 roses for
every 5 tulips. How many roses will she need if she has 25 tulips?

a. 5 roses

b. 10 roses

c. 15 roses

d. 20 roses



4. Phillip is making a model of a car. The model is ¼ the size of the car. The car is 8 feet long. How long should Phillip make the model?

a. 2 feet

b. 4 feet

c. 8 feet

d. 32 feet


5. Jennifer is painting her bedroom. She is mixing red and blue paint in a ratio of 1 to 4. If one batch of this mix contains 3 quarts of red paint, how many quarts of blue paint does it contain?

a. 3 quarts

b. 8 quarts

c. 12 quarts

d. 10 quarts


6. Frank took a survey of his classmates. He discovered that 24% of them owned a video game. How would Frank express this as a fraction in simplest form?

a. 1/6

b. 6/25

c. 12/50

d. 24/100


7. In a group of 60 students, 1 out of every 5 students was left-handed. How many students were left-handed?

a. 5 students

b. 10 students

c. 12 students

d. 48 students


8. In a class of 36 students, 18 students have blue eyes, 12 have brown eyes, and 6 students have green eyes. What fraction of the class has brown eyes?

a. 1/3

b. 1/4

c. 1/2

d. 3/4


9. Amanda is working at a printing factory. Two hundred pages are printed in 40 minutes. How many pages are printed in 30 minutes?

a. 70 pages

b. 130 pages

c. 150 pages

d. 100 pages



10. The cost of Brittany's piano lessons is five piano lessons for $35. How much would fifteen lessons cost?

a. $165

b. $135

c. $115

d. $105


11. A deck of cards has 5 red cards, 10 blue cards, and 8 yellow cards. If the cards are shuffled, what is the probability of picking out a yellow card?

a. 23/8

b. 8/23

c. 15/8

d. 8/15


12. If a coin is flipped 100 times, how many times will it be likely to come up tails?

a. 100 times

b. 75 times

c. 50 times

d. 25 times


13. One-fourth of the eighth grade class listen to country music. If there are 128 students in the eighth grade class, how many of them listen to country music?

a. 16 students

b. 24 students

c. 30 students

d. 32 students


14. Samantha gets paid $15.00 for babysitting for 3 hours. How much would she get paid for 10 hours of babysitting?

a. $28

b. $18

c. $50

d. $35


15. Lizzie's drawing includes 5 squares, 4 triangles, 8 circles, and 3 rectangles. Write the ratio of squares to rectangles.

a. 5 to 20

b. 3 to 30

c. 3 to 5

d. 5 to 3