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Sam's sports card collection contains football, baseball, and basketball cards. If the ratio of football to baseball cards is 5 to 2 and the ratio of baseball to basketball cards is 5 to 1, what is the ratio of football to basketball cards?
30:3

20:2

25:2

5:2

If all of a roofing company's 10 workers are required to staff 5 roofing crews, how many workers need to be added during the busy season so they can send 9 complete crews out on jobs?
10

18

17

What's the average of all the multiples of 6 from 6 to 36?

25.20

21

31.50

18

If there were a total of 150 raffle tickets sold and you bought 3 tickets, what's the probability that you'll win the raffle?
3%

2%

0%

1%

What is 5
A
4 1 25 4 25 4 1 10 4 10

2 ? 5

Solutions

Sam's sports card collection contains football, baseball, and basketball cards. If the ratio of football to baseball cards is 5 to 2 and the ratio of baseball to basketball cards is 5 to 1, what is the ratio of football to basketball cards?
30:3

20:2

25:2

5:2

SOLUTION
The ratio of football cards to baseball cards is 5:2 and the ratio of baseball cards to basketball cards is 5:1. To solve this problem, we need the baseball card side of each ratio to be equal so we need to rewrite the ratios in terms of a common number of baseball cards. (Think of this like finding the common denominator when adding fractions.) The ratio of football to baseball cards can also be written as 25:10 and the ratio of baseball cards to basketball cards as 10:2 so the ratio of football cards to baskeball cards is 25:2.

If all of a roofing company's 10 workers are required to staff 5 roofing crews, how many workers need to be added during the busy season so they can send 9 complete crews out on jobs?
10

18

17

SOLUTION
In order to find how many additional workers are needed to staff the extra crews you first need to calculate how many workers are on a crew. There are 10 workers at the company now and that's enough to staff 5 crews so there are 10 5

= 2 workers per crew.

9 crews are needed for the busy season which, at 2 workers per crew, means that the roofing company will need 9 x 2 = 18 total workers to staff the crews during the busy season. The company already employs 10 workers so they need to add 18 - 10 = 8 new staff for the busy season.

What's the average of all the multiples of 6 from 6 to 36?

25.20

21

31.50

18

SOLUTION
The multiples of 6 from 6 to 36 are: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36. To find their average, add them together to get 126 then divide by the number of multiples (6) to get 21.

If there were a total of 150 raffle tickets sold and you bought 3 tickets, what's the probability that you'll win the raffle?
3%

2%

0%

1%

SOLUTION
You have 3 out of the total of 150 raffle tickets sold so you have a (3 / 150) x 100 = 0.02 x 100 = 2% chance to win the raffle.

What is 2 5
A
4 1 25 4 25 4 1 10 4 10

2 ? 5

SOLUTION
When multiplying fractions simply multiply the numerators (top numbers) and the denominators (bottom numbers) to get the result:
2 5

2 5

= 4

25

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