Algebra I Exercises: Rates and Ratios

General Questions

Your family of 5 eats 8 boxes of cereal a month. What is the average monthly number of boxes that each person eats?

A beach house you are renting costs $800 a month. How much is it costing you per day if there is an average of 28 days in a month?

You folded 2000 programs for the school play in 4 hours. What is the hourly rate at which you folded the programs?

At a restaurant there are 5 waiters and 100 guests. What is the waiter - guest ratio? What is the guest-waiter ratio?

There are 40 street lamps in your neighborhood covering 4 miles. How many street lamps are there each mile?

Your printer can print 40000 pages using 2 black ink cartridges. What is the ink cartridge - page ratio?

You can read 20 pages in 30 minutes. At what rate do you read?

There are 50 children at a daycare camp and 6 adults. What is the adult - child ratio?