Jean and Claude were practicing soccer penalty kicks. Jean
attempted 16 kicks and scored 8 times. Claude attempted
20 kicks and scored 5 times. At these rates, how many more
successful kicks would Jean make than Claude if they each
attempted 80 kicks?
1
Jean made 8 of 16 or
2
1
1 80 80
 40
 80  

2
2
2 1
1
Claude made 5 of 20 or
4
1 80 80
1
 20

 80  
4
4 1
4
Jean would make 20 more shots than Claude.
Rick Mears raced in the Baja road rally. The table below
shows his miles traveled per hour.
Hours
Traveled
Miles
Traveled
0
1
2
3
4
0
72
144
216
288
5
 72 72 72 72
Find a
pattern…
288  72  360 miles
If he maintained his speed, how many miles would he
travel in 5 hours?
At a Boy Scout camp, there is 1 counselor for every 8 boy
scouts during an overnight campout. Which equivalent
ratios could be used to find the number of counselors
needed if 112 boy scouts are camping out?
counselor
key :
total scouts
A.
B.
C.
D.
1
?

8 112
1 112

8
?
8
1

? 112
1
?

112 8
counselors
1

112
8
A cookie recipe calls for 2 cups of brown sugar and 3 cups
of flour. If a baker increases the recipe and uses 12 cups
of flour, how many cups of brown sugar should the baker
use?
brown sugar
key :
flour
2 4
8 sugar
 
3 4 12 flour
8
Tammy drove 440 miles in two days to visit her friend. On
the first day, she drove 5 hours at an average speed of 55
miles per hour. She continued to drive at the same rate
on the second day. How many hours did Tammy drive the
second day?
Use the distance,
rate, time formula…
d  rt
Distance
Day 1
Time
Rate
Day 2
165  55t
55 55
3 hours  t
440  275  165 miles left to drive
d  55 5
d  275 miles
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