Solving Proportions

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Read and solve each word problem

  1. A model replica of a building measures 5.2 inches tall, and the width of the base is 1.6 inches tall. If the actual building is 280 meters tall, about how wide is the actual base?
  1. If a caterpillar can cover a distance of 45 inches in 30 seconds, what distance coud the caterpillar cover ins 2.4 minutes?
  1. A message in a bottle floats across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of 3.5 miles per hour. If the nearest land in the direction the bottle is floating is 371 miles away, how many hours will it take for the bottle to hit land?
  1. A pencil company has machines that make 244 pencils in 30 minutes. At that rate, how many pencils can the company’s machines make in one 8 hour shift?
  1. Nathan created a model to scale of his house and yard, and he used the scale 1 inch = 3 feet. If the tree by his bedroom window measures inches tall on the scale model, which of the following is the actual height of the tree?
  1. On a scale model of a shopping center, the scale is inch to 1 foot. If the actual length of the shopping center is 144 feet, what is the length on the scale model?
  1. A poster measures 12 cm wide and cm long. If a reprint of the poster was made with a width of 32 cm, how long would the enlargement be?
  1. Corrina can finish 30 algebra problems per hour. Her weeklong homework assignment includes a total of 150 problems, and she has already finished 90 of them. How many more hours will it take her to finish the algebra problems?
  1. A plant grows 2 millimeters every 6 hours. If it continues at the same rate, how many millimeters will it have grown in 15 hours?
  1. It takes Nora 4 hours to get to her cousin’s house which is 215 miles away. If she travels at the same rate, it takes her 7 hours to get to her sister’s house. How far away is her sister’s house?
  1. In Happy Hills Pond, 2 out of 5 fish are goldfish. If 40 fish were randomly chosen from the pond, how many of them would be goldfish?
  1. Jenna uses 36 beads to make 4 bracelets. How many of the same type of bracelet can Jenna make with 108 beads?
  1. Steven read that the actual distance between Memphis and Chicago is about 525 miles. On a map, the distance between the two cities is about inches. What is the scale of the map?
  1. Mrs. Garcia used 5 cups of flour to make 3 loaves of bread. How many loaves of bread can she make with 30 cups of flour?