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Direct and Inverse Proportion Worksheets Pack

The document contains two worksheets with multiple math word problems each about direct and inverse proportions. Worksheet 1 includes problems about relating quantities like dried fruit to pies baked, book pages read to time, and fabric produced to time. Worksheet 2 includes problems relating quantities like trucks to bags transported, workers to time, and food to time or people.

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Direct and Inverse Proportion Worksheets Pack

The document contains two worksheets with multiple math word problems each about direct and inverse proportions. Worksheet 1 includes problems about relating quantities like dried fruit to pies baked, book pages read to time, and fabric produced to time. Worksheet 2 includes problems relating quantities like trucks to bags transported, workers to time, and food to time or people.

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Worksheet 1 – Direct Proportion

1. Mark needs 600 g of dried fruit to make 18 small fruit pies. How many small
fruit pies can he make with 1 kg of dried fruit?

2. It takes Mary 18 minutes to finish reading 4 pages of a book. How long does it
take Mary to finish reading a chapter of a book, which is 36 pages long?

3. A machine can produce 6 metres of fabric in two minutes. How many metres
of fabric can the machine produce in an hour, working at the same speed?

4. Karen runs 2 km in 23 mins. If Karen runs at the same pace,

a) how long will it take her to run 10 km? Give your answer in hours and mins.

b) how many km does Karen run in an hour? Give your answer correct to 1 d.p.

5. Max plans to buy toys to donate to charity. The toy Max


chooses costs €23.50 each from Shop A.

a) How many toys can Max buy with €350?

b) Max finds that Shop B sells the same toy at €22.75.

How many toys can Max buy from Shop B, if he plans to


spend the same amount of money?

6. Steve invites six people for dinner. He wants to make Lemon Ice Cream for

LEMON ICE CREAM dessert.


(makes 4 servings)
a) How many eggs does Steve need to make Lemon Ice Cream
8 egg yolks for 6 people?
150 g sugar
40 ml lemon juice b) Steve has 50 ml of lemon juice. Is this enough to make
300 ml double cream the recipe for 6 people? If no, how many more ml of lemon
juice does he need?

c) Simone, Steve’s wife, says that to make 6 servings of Lemon Ice Cream, one needs
250 g of sugar. Steve states that 275 g is needed. Who is right? Explain.

7. A ream of paper contains 500 sheets and is 6 cm thick. Calculate the thickness
of one sheet of paper, giving your answer in mm.

8. The nutritional information on a tub of Greek yogurt states that


the yogurt contains 0.4 g of fat per 100 grams of yogurt. If the tub
of yogurt contains 125 grams, how much fat does this tub contain?

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Worksheet 2 – Inverse Proportion

1. Thirty five trucks are needed to transport large bags of


grain from a warehouse to a pasta factory. Each truck
carries eight bags of grain. However, the truck drivers
objected saying that the load was too heavy, and carried
only 7 bags per truck. How many trucks are needed to transport the grain now?
2. It takes four men 6 hours to repair a road. How long will it take eight men to
do the same job if they work at the same rate?
3. Albert takes 75 minutes to drive home at 80 km/hr. How long will it take to
drive home at 100 km/hr?
4. A farmer has enough grain to feed 50 cows for 10 days. The farmer sells ten
cows. For how many days will the grain last now?
5. A book has 300 pages, with 28 lines printed in every page. If the book must
have only 280 pages, how many lines should be printed per page?
6. Four people live in a particular house. The amount of groceries in this house
are enough to last for 30 days. If a guest comes to stays in the house, for how
many days will the groceries last now?
7. In an army camp, there is enough food to feed 1200 soldiers for 8 weeks. Three
hundred more soldiers join the camp. For how many weeks will the food last
now?
8. The time taken for the water in a kettle to boil is inversely proportional to the
power of the kettle. When the power of the kettle is 2000 Watts, the water in
the full kettle takes 240 seconds to boil. Calculate the time it takes to boil the
same amount of water when the power of the kettle is reduced to 1500 Watts.
9. If 20 men reap a field in 14 days, in how many days can 35 men reap the same
field?
10. A fort has provisions for 300 men for 90 days. 50 men left the fort. How long
would the food last at the same rate?
11. Four pipes can fill a tank in 70 minutes. How long will it take to fill the tank
with 7 pipes?
12. It takes 4 men ten days to build a brick wall. How many
days will it take 5 men?

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