Ileana's Percent Post

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Ileana's Proportion Problems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon

#9   1)  To make lemonade, you need 6 lemons and 8 cups of water. How many lemons do you need if you have 24 cups of water?
   
       Let x be the number of lemons you need if there are 24 cups of water
       Word Ratio, Ratio Table, Ratio

You need 18 lemons if you have 24 cups of water.

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#21   2)  3 posters costs $9.60. At that rate, how many posters can you buy for $48?

       Let x be the number of posters you can buy for $48
       Word Ratio, Ratio Table, Ratio

At that rate, you can buy 15 posters.


Your Problem:
          At Discount Copy, 12 copies cost $0.66. Melissa needs 56 copies. How much should they cost?

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Ileana's Rate Problem

Group Problem

(Unit Rate to Rate)

      1)  If Bob has 20 apples per 1 glass of milk, how many glasses of milk would Bob have if he has 40 apples?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk

Own Problems

(Unit Rate to Rate)

      2)  When Taylor checked her blood pressure, she had 70 heartbeats per minute. How long would it take if she had 280 heartbeats?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_ventricular_contraction

(Rate to Unit Rate)

      3)  Brad had to write a lot of pages for his history assignment. If Brad wrote on 10 pages in 5 hours, how many pages had he finished writing if he did it in 20 hours?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_Math_Papers.jpg

(Rate to Unit Rate)

      4)  It was Flavio's birthday so he went to the store to buy some orange juice. If the orange juice is $6 per 3 Litres, how much would the orange juice be if he gets the 12 Litres?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice

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