Direct Proportion

Author:Jammu and Kashmir Board
8th Jammu and Kashmir Board
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Important Questions on Direct Proportion

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A loaded truck travels 14 km in 25 minutes. If the speed remains the same, it can travel k km in 5 hours, then find the value of k.

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Razia has a road map with a scale of 1 cm representing 18 km. She drives on a road for 72 km. If the distance covered by her on the map is k cm, then find the value of k.

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Suppose 2 kg of sugar contains 9×106 crystals. If there are m×106 sugar crystals in 1.2 kg of sugar, then find the value of m.

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Suppose 2 kg of sugar contains 9×106 crystals. If there are m×107 sugar crystals in 5 kg of sugar, then find the value of m.

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In a model of a ship, the mast is 9 cm high, while the mast of the actual ship is 12 m high. The length of the actual ship is 28 m and that of the model ship is k cm, then find the value of k.

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A photograph of a bacteria enlarged 50,000 times attains a length of 5 cm as shown in the diagram. What is the actual length of the bacteria? If the photograph is enlarged 20,000 times only, what would be its enlarged length?

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5 m 60 cm high vertical pole casts a shadow 3 m 20 cm long. Find at the same time the height of a pole (in m) that casts a shadow 5 m long.

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A 5 m 60 cm high vertical pole casts a shadow 3 m 20 cm long. If at the same time the length of the shadow cast by another pole 10 m 50 cm high is x m, then find the value of x.

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A machine in a soft drink factory fills 840 bottles in six hours. How many bottles will it fill in five hours?

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A mixture of paint is prepared by mixing some parts of red pigments with some parts of base. If 1 part of a red pigment requires 75 ml of base, how much red pigment(in ml) should we mix with 1800 ml of base? 

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A mixture of paint is prepared by mixing 1 part of red pigments with 8 parts of the base. In the following table, the parts of the base that need to be added is given. Find a+b+c+d.

Parts of Pigment 1 4 7 12 20
Parts of base 8 a b c d

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Following are the car parking charges near a railway station up to

4 hours 60
8 hours 100
12 hours 140
24 hours 180

Check if the parking charges are in direct proportion to the parking time.