ISEE Lower Level Math : ISEE Lower Level (grades 5-6) Mathematics Achievement
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Example Question #501 : Numbers And Operations
A baseball team has a 2:1 ratio of seniors to freshmen, respectively. If there are 27 total players, how many are seniors?
Since the ratio of seniors-to-freshmen is 2:1, there are twice as many seniors as freshmen. There's a few ways to solve this. One way is to make the algebra equation:
Where 
Now solve for 
But don't forget! 
Example Question #502 : Numbers And Operations
There are 7 green chips, 4 black chips, and 8 white chips on a table. What is the ratio of green chips to black chips?
The ratio is written as:
The colon (:) indicates the word "to".
Example Question #503 : Numbers And Operations
A drawer contains 5 pairs of black socks and 7 pairs of red socks. What is the red to black sock ratio?
A ratio is determined by comparing the number of one item (red socks) to the number of another item (black socks). Therefore, the red to black ratio is 
Example Question #504 : Numbers And Operations
Michael's math class has 27 students in it.
There are 9 boys and 18 girls.
What is the ratio of boys to girls in Michael's math class?
There are 9 boys and 18 girls.
This is a ratio of
Reduce to get
Example Question #15 : Ratio And Proportion
The ratio of boys to girls in a group of 12 students is 1 boy to 2 girls. 
If there is 1 boy for every 2 girls, and there are 12 students, then that means there must be 4 boys and 8 girls.
The ratio of 
Thus, if the group has 12 students, we know the group is 4 times bigger than the smallest group possible.
This means that we multiply 4 by the ratio to get the number of boys and girls.
Example Question #505 : Numbers And Operations
In a pet store, there are 12 cats and 9 dogs. Two-thirds of the cats are male, and one-third of the dogs are male.
How many animals in the store are male?
We can solve by multiplying the total number of animals by the fraction of males for each species.
Add these values together to find the total number of male animals.
Example Question #506 : Numbers And Operations
Jenny has a collection of movies. She has 5 movies that are comedies and 10 movies that are dramas. What is the ratio of comedies to dramas that Jenny owns?
A ratio is a relationship between two numbers such that there are as many items of the second number as there are of the first number. Given that for every 5 comedies that Jenny has, she has 10 dramas, the ratio between the two is 
Example Question #507 : Numbers And Operations
Gina owns 4 dogs and 2 cats. What is the ratio of dogs to cats?
Given that there are 4 dogs and 2 cats, the ratio of dogs to cats is 
Example Question #508 : Numbers And Operations
A coffee shop sells 2 types of pastries: cookies and muffins. There are 48 pastries for sale, and 16 of them are cookies. What is the ratio of cookies to muffins?
If there are 48 pastries for sale, and 16 of them are cookies, that means that the remaining 32 pastries are muffins.
Therefore, the ratio of cookies to muffins is 
Example Question #509 : Numbers And Operations
If 30% of a class of 20 students are 5 years old, 20% are 7 years old, and the rest are 6 years old, what is the ratio 5 year-olds to 6 year-olds?
If 30% of a class of 20 students are 5 years old, then that means there are six 5 year-olds. Given that 30% are 5 years old and 20% are 7 years old, the other 50% must be 6 years old.
50% of 20 students is 10 students.
Therefore, the ratio of 5 year-olds to 6 years-olds is 
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