What Is a Ratio?
What Is a Ratio?
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A recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 5:2. What fraction of the mixture is flour?
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This topic in real past papers
Every real exam question we've found on ratio problems, with a full worked answer.
AQA Paper 1
Three of the four sittings we have full papers for test a ratio problem set in a real context, always requiring at least two stages of working.
AQA Paper 2
Three of the four sittings we have full papers for give a multi-stage ratio word problem involving money, needing several linked calculations rather than a single ratio share.
AQA Paper 3
Two of the four sittings we have full papers for build up a money answer through several separate ratio-based steps, then ask for it to be checked against a stated amount.
Edexcel Paper 1
All three sittings we have full papers for build a ratio question around a real-life context, each combining the ratio with an extra fact before the final quantity can be found.
Edexcel Paper 1
Two of the three sittings we have full papers for combine a ratio of items with a probability fact to find an unknown count, either after items are added to the group or as a direct algebraic ratio.
Edexcel Paper 2
All three sittings we have full papers for build at least one ratio question around a real-life context, and June 2019 tests it twice, once combining a ratio with an algebraic relationship, and once combining two separate ratios.
Edexcel Paper 2
Two of the three sittings we have full papers for give a named person's specific, wrong mathematical statement and ask for an explanation of why it is incorrect.