Ratios and Proportions

These are practice problems on ratios and proportions

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.

___________ = _____ = _____ = Students

Faculty

1,342

215

6.24

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.

_____________ = ______ = ______ = .57Field goals 813 271

attempts 1422 474

This slide is for you to make up your own problem!

40-point games

Total games

5

25

=

1

5

= = .25

Lebron James has dropped 40 points in 5 of his last 25 games. What is the ratio of 40-point games to the total number of games he has played in this span.

Reflection• What did you like about this assignment? I like using ratios and

proportions to figure out certain statistics on players: including sports.

• What could be improved with this assignment? I like a lot of things about sports, so to improve this assignment to me, is to include more things about sports.

• How do you see a blog being useful in Geometry? You can enter you entries of different stuff you learned to keep track and study and look over different things.

• What other tools/resources/projects would you like to do this year? Making proportions out of things we use or see every, including fun things we like and involving it in math!