Fractions
After basketball practice, 8 players equally shared 3 large bottles of water. What fraction of a bottle did each player get?
What is 3/8?
Richard walked 15.74 miles and James walked 12.98 miles. How many more miles did Richard walk than James?
What is 2.76?
Joan went to the bookstore.
• At this bookstore, 3/4 of the books are fiction.
• Of the fiction books, 1/3 are mystery books.
What fraction of the books at the bookstore are mystery fiction books?
What is 1/4?
A supermarket has 238 large boxes of cereal. Each large box holds 32 small bags of cereal. How many small bags of cereal are in the supermarket?
What are 7,616 bags?
A rope that is 6 meters long will be cut into 24 pieces that are all of the same length. What will be the length of each piece, in centimeters?
(Note: 100 centimeters = 1 meter)
What is 25 centimeters?
A school painted 12 of a wall in its gym with 3 colors. Each color takes up the same amount of space on the wall. What fraction of the wall does each color occupy?
What is 1/6?
Mia wants to buy 3 notebooks for $1.29 each. Which expression shows how to find the total cost?
What is 3 x 1.29?
Mr. Edwards bought a 50-pound bag of flour for his bakery. It was equally divided among 6 days. How much flour was used per day?
What is 8 1/3 pounds?
A sports store has 468 golf balls. They will be put into boxes that hold 18 balls each. What is the minimum number of boxes needed for all of the golf balls?
What is 26?
The length of a shoe is 25 centimeters. How long is the shoe in meters?
(Note: 1 meter = 100 centimeters)
What is 0.25 meters?
Tracie ran a total of 5 3/4 miles on Saturday and Sunday. She ran 1 5/8 miles on Saturday. How many miles did Tracie run on Sunday?
What is 4 1/8?
Alyssa walked 1.34 fewer miles than Emily. Alyssa walked 2.56 miles. How many miles did Emily walk?
What is 3.9 miles?
Three friends equally share 1/2 of a pizza. How much of the pizza does each friend get?
What is 1/6?
What is the width of a figure with a height of 12 units, a length of 9 units, and a volume of 216 cubic units?
What is 2 units?
How many feet are in 2,241 inches?
(Note: 1 foot = 12 inches)
What is 747 feet?
Three pizzas are shared equally among 12 people. What fraction of a pizza will each person get?
What is 1/4?
What is the expanded form for 602.049?
What is
6 × 100 + 2 × 1 + 4 × ( 1/100) + 9 x ( 1/1,000)
What is the value of 1/6 + 1/12 + 2/6?
What is 7/12?
Which expression matches the words “eight less than the product of twelve and four”?
What is (12 x 4) - 8?
Joann has 12 quarts of punch. She wants to transfer the punch into gallon jugs. How many gallon jugs will she need?
Hint: 4 quarts = 1 gallon
What are 3?
A rectangular room is 12 1/2 feet long and 10 1/3 feet wide. What is the area of the room?
What is 129 1/6 square feet?
If Susie has 25.5 cubic feet of soil to divide evenly among 2.5 garden beds, how many cubic feet of soil will she need to fill each bed?
What is 10.2 cubic feet?
What is the area of a square with one side measuring 3/4 foot?
What is 9/16 square feet?
Lou has two sets of numbers.
• The first set starts with 3 and follows a pattern of increasing by 5.
• The second set starts with 39 and follows a pattern of decreasing by 6.
How many numbers do the two sets have in common?
What are 2?
Jack is making a banner for his camp site. He needs 6 yards of fabric. How many feet of fabric does he need?
Hint: 1 yard = 3 feet
What is 18 feet?