This document contains practice problems on ratios and proportions involving colleges, basketball, and cupcakes.
The first problem asks for the student-faculty ratio at a college with 1,342 students and 215 faculty, which is 6.24.
The second problem gives Shaquille O'Neal's field goal attempts and makes for a season, asking for his ratio of successes to attempts as a fraction and decimal, which are 1.74.
The third problem asks how many cupcakes each of four children would get if four boxes containing 12 cupcakes each were made, with the answer being 12 cupcakes each.
2. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Recently, a small college had an enrollment of 1,342 students and a total of 215 faculty. What was the student-faculty ratio for this college? Write your answer as both a mixed number in simplest form and a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth. ___________ = _____ = _____ = 6.24 Students 1342 Faculty 215
3. BASKETBALL In the 2000–2001 season, Shaquille O’Neal made 813 field goals out of 1,422 attempts. What was Shaquille O’Neal’s ratio of successful field goals to attempts? Write your answer as both a fraction in simplest form and a decimal rounded to the nearest thousandth. goals 813 _____________ = ______ = ______ = 1.74 attempts 1422
4. This slide is for you to make up your own problem! You also must provide a solution Cupcakes- If one box make 12 cupcakes and four boxes were made how many cupcakes do the four children get each. Cupcakes /children 12*4=48 48/4 12
5. Reflection What did you like about this assignment?- I liked how I was able to organize the problem. What could be improved with this assignment?- the problems could be more detailed. How do you see a blog being useful in Geometry?- we could get back up information and learn what other students think. What other tools/resources/projects would you like to do this year?-I would like to create more shapes using angles and other stuff.