Practice Ratio and proportion Questions and Answers

• 80 percent of first number is equal to 70 percent of the second number. What is the respective ratio of the first number to the second number?
• 60 percent of first number is equal to 40 percent of the second number. What is the respective ratio of the first number to the second number?
• 70 percent of first number is equal to 40 percent of the second number. What is the respective ratio of the first number to the second number?
• What must be added to each term of the ratio 3:7 so that it may equal to 5:6?
• What must be added to each term of the ratio 4:7 so that it may equal to 3:4?
• What is the fourth proportional to 4, 9, 16?
• What is the fourth proportional to 2, 5, 12?
• What is the fourth proportional to 3, 8, 15?
• What is the fourth proportional to 5, 9, 25?
• What is the mean proportion between 24 and 54?
• What is the mean proportion between 3 and 27?
• What is the mean proportion between 9 and 16?
• What is the mean proportion between 9 and 36?
• Find the third proportional to 12 and 48?
• Find the third proportional to 11 and 33?
• Find the third proportional to 12 and 42?
• Find the third proportional to 13 and 39?
• The ratio of two numbers is 2:5. If each number is decreased by 4, the ratio becomes 3:8. Find the smaller numbers.
• The ratio of two numbers is 3:5. If each number is decreased by 2, the ratio becomes 5:9. Find the smaller numbers.
• The ratio of two numbers is 3:5. If each number is decreased by 5, the ratio becomes 5:9. Find the smaller numbers.
• The ratio of two numbers is 5:11. If each number is decreased by 2, the ratio becomes 4:9. Find the smaller numbers.
• The ratio of two numbers is 6:7. If each number is decreased by 3, the ratio becomes 9:11. Find the smaller numbers.
• The ratio of two numbers is 6:7. If each number is decreased by 4, the ratio becomes 5:6. Find the smaller numbers.
• The ratio of two numbers is 4:9. If each number is decreased by 4, the ratio becomes 3:7. Find the smaller numbers.
• What is the fourth proportion of 18, 20 and 23?
• What is the ratio whose terms differ by 30 and the measure of which is 4/9?
• What must be added to each term of the ratio 3:7 so that it may equal to 4:5?
• What is the mean proportion between 12 and 27?
• Three numbers are in the ratio 3:5:6. If the sum of their squares is 630, then the numbers are:
• 54% of the first number is 90% of the second number. What is the ratio of the first number to the second number?
• Find 'X' if the below three numbers are in proportion. 2.6, 1.3, X
• What is the fourth proportional to 189, 273 and 153?
• Rs 11,550 has to be divided between X, Y & Z such that X gets 4/5 of what Y gets and Y gets 2/3 of what Z gets. How much more does Z get over X (in Rs)?
• Before a battle the ratio of tanks to planes in an army was 5 : 3. During the war 1000 tanks were destroyed and 800 planes were destroyed. The ratio of tan...
• The ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys in a school of 720 students is 3 : 5. If 18 boys left the school, find how many new girls may be adm...
• Rs 1800 was divided among A, B and C in the ratio of 11:6:13 respectively. Find the amount received by A and B together.
• Rs 1080 was divided among Amit, Bhaskar and Charu in the ratio of 13:8:15 respectively. Find the amount received by Amit and Bhaskartogether.
• Rs 1296 was divided among Anil, Bhanu and Charan in the ratio of 10:5:12 respectively. Find the amount received by Anil and Bhanu together.
• Rs 1400 was divided among Anil, Bhanu and Charan in the ratio of 9:5:11 respectively. Find the amount received by Anil and Bhanu together.