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Factory and Worker Proportion Problems WORKSHEET

Suitable for Grades: 7th Grade, Algebra I, IM 1

CCSS: 7.RP.A.3, HSN.Q.A.1

CCSS Description: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems, including simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, and percent error.

Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multistep problems; choose and interpret units consistently in formulas; choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays.

Factory and Worker Proportion Problems WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION

This worksheet provides questions involving direct and invere proportion in the form of factory or worker problems. In section A requires learners to calculate the time taken for a differnt number of workers complete the same task. Section B then wants the numner of machines required to create a given number of products based on information about the production rate. Section C then has some mixed problem with more complicated scenarios.