Edexcel IGCSE Math A Higher 1.7 E Word Problems About Ratio and Proportion Questions

Practise translating recipes, sharing, scale diagrams and linked quantities into ratios or proportional calculations.

Exam points

scale recipes or ingredient lists and identify the limiting quantity
divide a total in a stated ratio before applying fractions or percentages
combine linked ratios or proportional statements to find an unknown amount

[Maximum number: 3]

Avril bakes a cake.
She uses flour, butter and sugar such that
weight of flour: weight of butter =6: 5
weight of butter: weight of sugar =3: 2
Avril uses 120 grams of sugar.
Work out the weight of flour Avril uses.
grams

Butter:

120\times\frac32=180

Flour:

180\times\frac65=216

Final answer:

216\text{ g}

M1 for finding one share or the amount of butter, or for writing the 3-part ratio correctly.
M1 for a correct calculation or equation to find the amount of flour.
A1 for flour =216, clearly labelled.

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