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Year 5 Ratios Worksheet

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Year 5 Ratios Worksheet

Ratio symbols and numbers illustration

📚 Part 1: Understanding Ratios

1. What is a ratio? Write your answer in one sentence.
2. Look at this group: 🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵. What is the ratio of red circles to blue circles?

3:2

2:3

5:2

3:5

3. In a class of 24 students, there are 10 boys and 14 girls. Write the ratio of boys to girls.

Boys to girls = _____ : _____

4. Which of these ratios are equivalent to 2:4? (Tick all correct answers)

1:2

4:8

3:6

6:10

✏️ Part 2: Simplifying Ratios

5. Simplify these ratios to their lowest terms:

a) 6:9 = _____ : _____

b) 15:20 = _____ : _____

c) 8:12 = _____ : _____

6. Show your working to simplify the ratio 18:24

Answer: 18:24 = _____ : _____

7. Emma has 12 red marbles and 18 blue marbles. Write the ratio of red to blue marbles in its simplest form.

🧮 Part 3: Dividing Quantities Using Ratios

8. A bag contains 35 lollies. The ratio of strawberry to orange lollies is 3:4. How many strawberry lollies are there?

Answer: __________ strawberry lollies

9. $60 is shared between Tom and Sarah in the ratio 2:3. How much money does each person get?

Tom gets: $__________

Sarah gets: $__________

10. A recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 5:2. If I use 200g of flour, how much sugar do I need?

Answer: __________ grams of sugar

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