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Date

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.

If there are 20 trumpets, how many trombones and snare drums are in the band?

15 trombones, 30 snare drums

The principal at Harbor School found that 7 out of 10 students do most of their research

for writing reports on the Internet. If 150 students are writing reports, how many will do

most of their research on the Internet?

105 students

Today the bakers at Tastee Bakery made 8 dozen hermits and 6

dozen oatmeal raisin

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?

128 hermits

Edgar says that for every 20 e-mails he receives, 3 are spam. He also says that he reads

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?

400 e-mails

Liane had her picture taken standing next to a flagpole. In the photo, the image of Liane

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?

20 feet

Extend It Did you use a proportion to solve problem 2? What is another way to solve

the problem?

Sample answer: I could solve the problem by writing

the ratio as the fraction

and then finding

of 150.

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