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1. A ruler 30 cm long is broken into two parts in the ratio 8 : 7. How long are the two parts?

2. A recipe needs 400 g of flour to make 8 cakes. How much flour would be needed in order to
make two dozen cakes?

3. A motorbike uses petrol and oil mixed in the ratio 13 : 2.

a) How much of each is there in 30 litres of mixture?
b) How much petrol would be mixed with 500 ml of oil?

4. An aunt gives a brother and sister $2000 to be divided in the ratio of their ages. If the girl is 13
years old and the boy is 12 years old, how much will each get?

5. The ratio of the angles of a pentagon is 2 : 3 : 4 : 4 :5. Calculate the difference between the
largest and the smallest angles?

6. A photograph measuring 8 cm by 6 cm is enlarged by a ratio of 11 : 4. What are the dimensions

of the new print?

7. A rectangle measuring 7 cm by 4 cm is enlarged by a ratio of 2 : 1.

a) What is the area of:
i) the original rectangle?
ii) the enlarged rectangle?
b) By what ratio has the area been enlarged?

8. A cube of side 1 m is reduced three times in the ratio of 1 : 2.

a) Calculate the edge length of the reduced cube.
b) What is the area of one face of the reduced cube in relation to that of the original cube?
Express your answer as a ratio in its simplest form, ‘reduced area : original area’

9. A small company makes a profit of RM8000. This is divided between the directors in the ratio of
their initial investment. If Alex put RM20 000 into the firm, Maria RM35 000 and Ahmet
RM25 000, calculate the amount of the profit they will each receive.