Ratio Tables
Name: ______________________________
Date: ____________________ Per: _____
The First-Rate Rags company has been busy making different colors of green shirts. They need to order paint for
various batches of their different shades.
1. The table below compares the number of blue containers to the total number of containers. Using your knowledge
of ratios, complete the following table.
a) What is the ratio of blue paint to the total amount of paint? Explain how you found it.
b) How can you use the ratio to fill in the rest of the table? Give an example below.
2. The table in Exercise 1 compares the number of blue containers to the total number of containers. The ratio table
below compares the number of blue containers to the number of yellow containers in a new mixture. In the last box,
find a ratio that is not already in the table.
a) What is the ratio of blue paint to yellow paint? Explain how you found it.
b) How can you use the ratio to fill in the rest of the table? Give an example below.
3. The school band is holding a car wash to raise money for new uniforms. Ms. Change, the band director, wants to
order pizza for everyone. After the car wash last year, people ate 20 pizzas ate 8 pizzas.
Fill in the following ratio table based on the given information. How can you use ratios to help you?
4. Jayvyn and Rosario are planning a party. They want to figure out how many pints of juice to buy. At Amber’s party
the month before, 16 people drank 12 pints of juice. Jayvyn and Rosario want the same ratio of juice to people at
their party.
a) Fill in the following ratio table based on the given information. For the first two boxes, find two
ratios that are not already in the table.
b) Jayvyn said that if they extend the table, it will show that 21 pints are needed to serve 28 people. Is Jayvyn
correct? How do you know?
5. The following tables show how many words each person can text in a given amount of time. Compare the rates of
texting for each person using their ratio tables.
Michaela
Minutes
Words
3
150
5
250
7
350
9
450
Minutes
Words
2
90
4
180
6
270
8
360
Minutes
Words
3
120
6
240
9
360
12
480
Jenna
Maria
a) Who texts the fastest? Explain how you know.
b) Why can’t you simply pick the girl with the most amounts of texts at the end of each table?
c) Create a ratio table for a fourth person, Max, who texts at 55 words per minute. His table should have at
least four entries.
Share and Summarize
This mixture is called Sea Green.
1. Make a ratio table below that shows the ratio of blue containers to total containers for at least 5 different sized
batches.
2. Describe (in words) how you can find a mixture of Sea Green that uses only 9 containers in all.