Instructions: Use proportions to answer each of these word problems. You can use a calculator. 1
If 2 liters of sea water contain 70
grams of salt, how much salt is in 32
liters of sea water?
2 If it takes 930 kg of food to feed a pair
of elephants for 3 days, how much food
would you need to feed them for a week?
70 grams
n grams
3
2 liters
32 liters
If a fuel efficient car can go 210 miles
on 4 gallons of fuel, how far can it go
on 12 gallons?
70 x 32 = 2xn
2,240 = Xxn
2 &
If a farmer gets 340 bushels of corn
from 2 acres of land, how many bushels
can they get from 15 acres?
n = 1,120 grams
5
A factory can make 20 toasters in a
half-hour (0.5 hrs) How many toasters
can the factory make in 6.5 hours?
6
On a scaled drawing, a building measures
4.5 cm tall. If the scale of the drawing is
25 meters per 2 cm, how tall is the actual
building?