The document presents 7 math word problems involving proportionality: 1) calculating the number of bottles of lemonade that can be bought with $10.50 given 6 bottles cost $7, 2) calculating the number of pages a printer prints in 10 minutes given it prints 120 pages every 3 minutes, 3) calculating how much money Ricky receives in 17 days for working in an ice cream shop given he is paid €160 every 5 days, 4) calculating how much milk is needed to make a cake for 6 people given 1/4 liter is needed for a cake for 4 people, 5) calculating how many kilograms of water are in a 75kg person given water is 60% of the human body, 6) calculating
1. MATHS SOLUTION GAME – 1st of ESO - PROPORTIONALITY
1. Six bottles of lemonade cost $7. How many bottles can you buy with $10.50?
2. A high-speed printer prints 120 pages every three minutes. How many pages
does it print in ten minutes?
3. During summer holidays, Ricky usually works in an ice-cream shop. The
shop’s owner pays him one hundred and sixty euros every five days. How
many money does Ricky receive in seventeen days?
4. To make a cake for four persons, Luke needs one quarter of a litre of milk.
How much milk (in litres) does he need to make a cake for six persons?
5. We know that 60 percent of human body is composed of water. How much
water (in kilograms) is there in a person of 75 kg of weight?
6. Spain has a population of 45 millions. Seventy-two percent of the Spanish pass
summer holidays in their country, while the rest chooses to go abroad. How
many Spanish people pass their summer holidays abroad?
7. The price of a T-shirt in a store is €12.90. During sales, there is a 20% discount
on every article in the store. How much does the T-shirt cost during sales?
Vocabulary
Speed; owner (to own); T-shirt; sales.
2. 1 (bottles) . I can buy 9 bottles
2 (printer) . The printer prints 400 pages.
3 (ice-cream) Ricky receives €544 in 17 days.
4 (milk) He needs 0.375 l of milk.
5 (water) There are 45 kg of water.
6 (Spanish holidays) 12,600,000 people go abroad.
7 (T-shirt) 10.32 is the price of the Tshirt on sale