How to find a ratio

Practice Questions

GRE Quantitative Reasoning › How to find a ratio

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The ratio of the number of financial employees who remained in the same role for 2 to 9 years to the number of construction employees who remained in the same role for 0 to 4 years is closest to which of the following?

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1 : 1

2 : 3

3 : 4

1 : 3

There are 28 students in a room. The ratio of boys to girls cannot be which of the above.

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There are 3,500 people in group A and 5,000 people in group B:

Car Type% in Group A Who Own% in Group B Who Own
Motorbike49
Sedan3525
Minivan2215
Van912
Coupe36

What is the ratio of the number of people in group A with motorbikes and vans to the total number of people across both groups with motorbikes and vans?

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You are making a cake that requires, by volume, three times as much flour as sugar, twice as much sugar as milk, eight times more milk than baking powder and twice as much baking powder as salt. If you start with a teaspoon of salt, how many cups of flour do you need (there are 48 teaspoons in one cup)?

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For All Sweets Bakery, the daily sales ratio of bread to cakes is 5:2. If the bakery sells 12 more loaves of bread on Tuesday than its daily sale of 40 loaves, how many cakes were sold on Tuesday? (round to the nearest integer)

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The ratio of male students to female students in a class is 13 to 19. If there are 224 people in the class, including one teacher, one administrator, and thirty evaluators, how many people in the class are male students?

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A dessert is made using 2 parts cake and 3 parts icing. The cake contains 4 parts sugar, 5 parts milk, and 11 parts of other ingredients. The icing contains 3 parts sugar, 2 parts milk, and 15 parts of other ingredients. Which quantity is greater?

Quantity A: Parts sugar in the dessert

Quantity B: Parts milk in the dessert

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A fence has a post that is 5 in wide. The fence is constructed with 5 foot pieces. What is a possible length of a straight fence if it starts and ends with a post with a post between each piece of fence.

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A bakery stocks 3 cookies for every 2 cupcakes and 6 pastries for every 5 cookies. What is the ratio of cupcakes to pastries?

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If the length of a rectangle is increased by 50% and its width is decreased by 20%, what is the ratio of the area of the new rectangle to the original rectangle?

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