Ratio & Proportion (Edexcel IGCSE Maths A (Modular): Foundation Unit 2): Exam Questions

Aiko, Max and Pau share 5400 yen in the ratios 5:3:4

How much money does each of them get?

Aiko ....................................................... yen
Max ....................................................... yen
Pau ....................................................... yen

Last season, the number of goals scored by Arjun, by Simon and by Kath for their football team were in the ratios 2 : 5 : 8

Simon scored 12 more goals than Arjun.

Work out the number of goals scored by Kath.

Nancy has some coins with a total value of 85 pence.
She has only 2 pence coins and 5 pence coins.

The ratio

number of 2 pence coins: number of 5 pence coins = 1:3

Nancy has more 5 pence coins than 2 pence coins.

How many more?

A rental company has 360 cars and some vans.

The ratio of the number of cars to the number of vans is 3 : 5

of the cars are electric.

36% of the vans are electric.

The company has more electric vans than electric cars.

Work out how many more.
Show your working clearly

2 kilograms of grapes cost £6.20
500 grams of grapes and 3 kilograms of plums cost £11.60

Work out the cost of 1 kilogram of plums.

Avril bakes a cake.

She uses flour, butter and sugar such that

weight of flour : weight of butter = 6 : 5
weight of butter : weight of sugar = 3 : 2

Avril uses 120 grams of sugar.

Work out the weight of flour Avril uses

3 kg of carrots and 5 kg of potatoes cost a total of 207 rand.
2 kg of the carrots cost 48 rand.

Work out the cost of 1 kg of potatoes.