Fun with Fractions
The reciprocal of 5/9.
What is 9/5 ?
Find miles per hour for: 2/3 miles in 1/2 hour.
What is 4/3?
A snail going full speed was taking 1 ⁄ 3 of a minute to move 1 ⁄ 9 of a centimeter. At this rate, this is how long it will take the snail to travel a centimeter.
What is 3 minutes?
3/4 divided by 1/5
What is 3 3/4
Find dollars per hour for: $5/6 in 3/4 hours.
What is 10/9?
While exercising Frank walked 1 ⁄ 8 of a mile in 1 ⁄ 5 of an hour. At this rate, this is how far Frank will have traveled after 2 hour.
What is 5/4 of a mile?
The reciprocal of (3 and 2/3).
What is 3/11 ?
Find cookies per minute for: 4/5 cookies in 1/6 minute.
What is 24/5 to 1, or 24 to 5, or 4 and 4/5 to 1 ?
A water hose had filled up 1 ⁄ 8 of a pool after 1 ⁄ 5 of an hour. At this rate, this is how many hours it would take to fill the entire pool.
What is 8/5 of an hour, or 1 and 3/5 hours?
Numerator is greater than or equal to the denominator
What is Improper Fraction
Find sandwiches per minute for: 6/7 minutes for 4/8 sandwiches.
What is 7/12?
A bag with 3 and 1/3 ounces of peanuts can make 2/3 of a jar of peanut butter. This is the number of ounces of peanuts it would take to make 3 jars.
What is 15 ounces of peanuts?
A rate that stays the same
What is a constant rate?
Find the for dollars per minute for: 1 and 1/7 minutes and 3 and 1/5 dollars.
What is 514/5?
A cookie recipe called for 3 and 2⁄4 cups of sugar for every 3 and 2⁄3 cups of flour. If you made a batch of cookies using 6 cups of flour, this is how many cups of sugar you would need.
What is 5 and 8/11 cups?