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1 Will and Olly share £80 in the ratio 3 : 2 6 Ali and Steve share some sweets in the ratio 2 : 7
Steve gets 30 more sweets than Ali.
Work out how much each of them get.
Work out how many sweets Steve gets.
(3 marks) (3 marks)

2 Molly, Paige and Demi share 42 sweets in the ratio 3 : 2 : 1 7 Dave is making cookies.
He mixes flour, butter and sugar in the ratio 6 : 4 : 1
Work out the number of sweets that each of them receives.
Dave uses 160 grams of butter.
Work out how much flour and sugar Dave uses.
(3 marks)
(3 marks)
3 ABC is a straight line. 8 Alvin and Simon shared £540 in the ratio 4 : 5

A B C Alvin gave half of his share to Theo.

Simon gave a tenth of his share to Theo.
The length of BC is three times the length of AB.
What fraction of the £540 did Theo receive?
AC = 80 metres.
Work out the length BC. (3 marks)
(3 marks)
9 ABC is a straight line.
4 Carly and James share some money in the ratio 5 : 3
Carly gets £70 more than James.
A B C
Work out how much money James gets. The length of BC is four times the length of AB.
( 3 marks)
BC = 100 metres.
5 Jerry and Mick share some money in the ratio 2 : 3 Work out the length AC.
Mick gets £900
(3 marks)
Work out how much money Jerry gets.

( 3 marks)
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10 Bob is going to make some orange paint. He needs to mix red paint, 13 Al, Tom and Joe share €3000.
yellow paint and white paint in the ratio 5 : 4 : 1
The ratio of the amount Al gets to the amount Tom gets is in the
Bob wants to make 750 ml of orange paint. ratio 5 : 4
Bob has: 400 ml of red paint Joe gets 1.5 times the amount Tom gets.
300 ml of yellow paint
200 ml of white paint Work out the amount of money that Tom gets.
(4 marks)
Does Bob have enough red paint, yellow paint and white paint to make
the orange paint? 14 Harry and Gary have a total of 300 stickers.
You must show all your working. The ratio of the number of stickers Harry has to the ratio of the number
(4 marks)
of stickers Gary has is in the ratio 7 : 3
11 Megan is going to make a drink using the instructions below.
Harry gives Gary some stickers.
Mix 2 parts of fruit juice The ratio of the number of stickers Harry has to the ratio of the number
with 5 parts of sparkling water of stickers Gary has is now in the ratio 8 : 7

Megan has 180 ml of fruit juice and 400 ml of sparkling water. Work out how many stickers Harry gives to Gary.
You must show all your working.
What is the greatest amount of the drink Megan can make? (4 marks)

(3 marks) 15 A shop sells small chocolate bars and large chocolate bars.

12 In a bag there are only red counters, blue counters and white counters. There are
A counter is taken at random from the bag. small chocolate bars are sold in packs of 4
large chocolate bars are sold in packs of 9
The table shows the probability of getting a red counter.
On one day
Colour Red Blue White
the number of packs of the number of packs of
Probability 0.35 : large chocolate bars sold = 5 : 2
small chocolate bars sold
the number of blue counters : the number of white counters = 2 : 3
A total of 190 chocolate bars were sold.
Find the probability of getting a blue counter and a white counter. Work out the number of small chocolate bars sold.
(4 marks) (4 marks)
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16 Dermot has 240 counters. 19 There are only red counters and green counters in a bag.
The counters are either red, or blue, or yellow or green.
number of red counters : number of green counters = 2 : 3
15% of the counters are red.
2 There are 28 red counters in the bag.
5 of the counters are blue Work out the total number of counters in the bag.
The ratio of yellow counters to green counters is 3:1
Work out the number of yellow counters Dermot has. (2 marks)

(4 marks) 20 Clara and Dawn have some stamps in the ratio 5 : 9

Dawn has 36 more stamps than Clara.
17 Daisy bakes 180 cakes. Work out the number of stamps Clara has.
She bakes only chocolate cakes, vanilla cakes, banana cakes and lemon
cakes.
20% of the cakes are chocolate cakes. (3 marks)
4
of the cakes are vanilla cakes.
9 21 In a bag there are counters.
The ratio of banana cakes to lemon cakes is is 3:5 The counters are all either red or blue or yellow.

Work out the number of lemon cakes Daisy has. The number : The number of The number of
: = 4:5:8
of red counters blue counters yellow counters

(4 marks) The number of yellow counters is 24 more than the numbers of blue
counters.
18 Each month Angelina earns £1800 after tax. Work out the total number of counters in the bag.
Angelina saves 30% of her salary and she spends the rest.
the amount Angelina spends on rent : the amount she spends on
other expenses = 4 : 5 (3 marks)

Work out how much Angelina spends on rent.

(4 marks)

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22 Cameron has some coins with a total value of 95 pence. 24 The diagram shows triangle ABC.
She has only 2 pence coins and 5 pence coins. B
The ratio
number of 2 pence coins : number of 5 pence coins = 2 : 3 83°

Work out how many 5 pence coins Cameron has.

D
(4 marks)

23 Pens and pencils are sold in a shop.

8 pencils cost £1.92

The ratio of the cost of a pen to the cost of a pencil is 4 : 3 52°
A C
Work out the cost of 5 pens.

ADB is a straight line.

the size of angle BCD : the size of angle ACD = 2 : 3

(4 marks)
Work out the size of angle ADC.

(4 marks)

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