Answer the following questions:
A. Reduce the fractions to the lowest terms
1. 15/27 5. 256/336
2. 35/20 6. 264/360
3. 48/30 7. 465/527
4. 99/ 121 8. 1050/1425
B. 1. Express the ratio of the number of red marbles to the number of blue marbles using both the colon form and the fraction form.
2. There are 15 fruits in a basket composed of apples and oranges. For every apple, there are four oranges. If an additional six apples were placed in the basket, what would be the new ratio of apples to oranges?
3. In a kitchen, the combined number of plates and glasses is 60. If the ratio of the number of plates to glasses is 2 ∶ 3, how many plates should be added so that the ratio of plates to glasses is 1 ∶ 1?
4. Fred has a collection of movie CDs. The ratio of fantasy movies to drama movies is 3 ∶ 2. The ratio of drama movies to comedy movies is 4 ∶ 3. If Fred has 24 fantasy movie CDs in his collection, how many comedy movie CDs does he have?
C. A pastel-colored tile is subdivided into smaller squares colored pink, light yellow, and light orange.
Write the indicated ratio in the simplest form.
a. ratio of pink squares to the total number of squares
b. ratio of pink squares to light orange squares
c. ratio of light orange squares to light yellow squares
d. the ratio of pink squares to light yellow squares
