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Proportion Problems
Solve each problem. You may make a Factor Puzzle to help you.
For every 3 trombones in the marching band, there are 4 trumpets and 6 snare drums.
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If there are 20 trumpets, how many trombones and snare drums are in the band?
The principal at Harbor School found that 7 out of 10 students do most of their research
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for writing reports on the Internet. If 150 students are writing reports, how many will do
most of their research on the Internet?
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Today the bakers at Tastee Bakery made 8 dozen hermits and 6
dozen oatmeal raisin
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cookies. The bakers always make the cookies in the same ratio. How many hermits will
they need to bake tomorrow if they bake 104 oatmeal-raisin cookies?
Edgar says that for every 20 e-mails he receives, 3 are spam. He also says that he reads
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only 2 out of every 15 spams. If Edgar read 8 spams last month, what was the total num-
ber of e-mails he received?
Liane had her picture taken standing next to a flagpole. In the photo, the image of Liane
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is 3 cm tall and the flagpole is 15 cm tall. Liane is actually 48 inches tall. What is the
actual height, in feet, of the flagpole?
Extend It Did you use a proportion to solve problem 2? What is another way to solve
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the problem?