TRUE or FALSE
True or False.
If the denominator is greater than the numerator, the fraction is greater than one.
False.
Simplify the fraction.
15 / 20 ; divide by 5
3 / 4
Represent the following fraction.
1/3
Visual shown should be similar to three boxes and one shaded to represent 1/3.
Calculate the fractions
5/10 - 4/10 =
= 1/10
What do fractions express?
True or False?
A fraction never expresses an exact number of units?
False
Simplify the fraction
6 / 8
3 / 4
Write an equivalent fraction for …
2 / 3
Possible answers
4 / 6 ; 6/ 9 ; 8 / 12 ; 10 / 15
Calculate and Simplify.
2/9 + 5/18 =
= 1 / 2
What is an Improper Fraction?
A fraction with a numerator equal to or greater than the denominator
Ex. 7/5
True or False.
One third of two is the same as two thirds.
True
Simplify the fraction.
14 / 28
1 / 2
What fraction of a minute is 15 seconds?
15 / 60 = 1 / 4
Find the common denominator of
1/2 , 3/4 , 5/8
The common denominator is 8
A hotel has 80 rooms. 20% of which are empty. What fraction of the rooms are empty? How many are empty?
1/5 of the hotel’s rooms are empty. There are 16 empty rooms.
True or False.
The common denominator must be a multiple of all of the denominators?
True
Calculate by reducing to a common denominator.
3/8 - 1/6 =
9 / 24 - 4 / 24 = 5 / 24
Write in the missing term.
2/ 12 = x / 18
X = 3
Add and find the sum using the common denominator
1/4 + 3/10
Common denominator = 20
= 11/20
At a summer camp, there are 280 people and 3/7 of them are Spanish. How many Spanish campers are there?
There are 120 Spanish campers.
True or False: Are the fractions equivalent?
2 / 5 and 6 / 15
Yes / True
Simplify the fraction.
30 / 75
2 / 5
Order the fractions from smallest to largest.
1/3 ; 2/7 ; 4/10 ; 3/11
3/11 < 2/7 < 1/3 < 4/10
Place fractions in order from smallest to largest
3/2 ; 3/4; 5/8
5/8 < 3/4 < 3/2
I’ve taken 3/5 of the money that was in my piggy bank and there are still 14 euros left. How much money was there before I opened it?
There were 35 euros in the piggy bank.