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Teachers Notes

This is a free one-page sample of my Proportional

Relationships Riddles resource.
I hope you enjoy it!

Read about the full resource here.

Contents:

The full resource includes:

• 10 worksheets containing a total of 30 task cards. Each task card has 2 questions.
• Teachers notes.
• All answers.

Objectives:

It is designed to practice: -

• Solving word problems.

• Solving direct proportion/ratio/rate problems.
• Solving inverse proportion/ratio/rate problems.
• Solving problems logically.

Directions:
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Print out a set of task cards to laminate. You can use the “fit to page” option on your printer.

Alternatively, you can just print out the sheets for students.

Or display for your class on a smartboard.

Print out an answer sheet for each student to record their final answers.

Notes:

All answers are included, so you can easily mark students work.

These questions should take at least an hour for students to complete.

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Sheet 11

Question 31

Three cleaners can mop a hotel’s floors in six hours.

a) How long would it take one cleaner to mop all the floors?

b) How many cleaners would be needed to mop the floors in two hours?

c)

Question 32

One camel can eat four bales of hay in six days.

a) How many bales of hay would two camels need for nine days?

b) How long would twenty-eight bales of hay last for six camels?

c)
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Question 33

Two machines can make 500 donuts in a day.

a) How many donuts could five machines make in three days?

b) How many machines would be needed to make 12000 donuts in 4 days?

c)

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Answers

Question Answer a) Answer b)

31. 18 hours 9 people
32. 12 bales 7 days
33. 3750 donuts 12 machines
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