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Simplify Ratios with Mixed Units

In this worksheet, students will reduce a ratio to its simplest form when the units are not the same

'Simplify Ratios with Mixed Units' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 3

Year:  Year 7 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Ratio, Proportion and Rates of Change

Curriculum subtopic:   Use Ratio Notation

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

Here's a quick reminder of how to simplify ratios by dividing by the HCF (highest common factor).

 

For example: 

 

 

In this activity, we will practise simplifying ratios, but  with an extra challenge!

If the units are different, we will first have to convert one to the other.

 

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Sound scary? Let's take a look at an example.

 

Example

Write 40p:£2.00 in its simplest form.

 

Answer

Before we look for the HCF, we need to convert one to the other.

If we convert both to £'s, then we would have to deal with decimals.

So, let's convert both to pence.

£2.00 = 200p

 

We can now rewrite the ratio as 40:200

It looks much better to deal with now!

 

The highest common factor is 40.

We can divide both by 40 and we get 1:5

or

if we don't see 40 straight away, we can divide by 10 first to give us

4:20

then divide by 4

= 1:5

 

Here's a useful tip: if you can't think of the highest common factor straight away, divide by something smaller first. This would make it more manageable.

 

Do you feel happier about that now?

 

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