Fraction Stuff
2/3 of the class wore their hair in pigtails for kickball. Of the 2/3 wearing pigtails, 1/6 were boys. What fraction of the class were boys with pigtails? Reduce your fraction.
1/9
Garrett was cutting a piece of wood that was 1.6 meters by 2.3 meters. He was building a new tree house in his back yard. He never fell out of the tree which was good because if he did..it would hurt 100 times more than if he fell off of his chair. What is the area of his piece of wood?
3.68 meters
18 divided by 6 x (4-3) + 6
9
5.63 x 10^4
5630
Reduce these fractions:
3/15 2/12 4/10
1/5 1/6 2/5
Fernando had 3 1/3 cups of doritos for snacks. He ate the same snack for 2 1/2 days. How many cups of doritos did he eat after the days were over? You must reduce your answer
8 1/3 cups
Graham had five dollars to spend at the Dollar General. He wanted to buy cards for his family. He did not buy the candy that was $1.16. However, he did buy three cards that cost $.79 each. How much change did he receive?
$2.63
8 x (3 + 8/2) -4
52
4.38 divided by 10^2
.0438
Matthew found a leaf for his famous collection. He noticed that it only had one pair of parallel sides and it was a four sided shape. He was so excited! He ran into his house and placed it in a hierarchy. What label did he put it under
Quadrilateral (duh)
Trapezoid
For each day of the week (7 days), Nolan ate 1/3 of an apple. How many apples had he eaten by the end of the week?
2 1/3 apples
4 x 100 + 3 x 1 + 5 x 0.01 + 6 X 0.003
403.053
a. 6 x 3 - 20
b. 6 divided by 3 - 20
c. 20 - 6 x 3
d. 20 + 6 x 3
c.
Mason had 4 meters of rope and he wanted to cut 25 centimeter pieces for an art project. How many centimeter pieces would he cut if there are 100 centimeters in a meter. If there are not that many, then I don't know what Mason will do for his art project.
16
Victoria had 8 1/3 inches of hair. She decided to cut most of it off herself and create a mullet. She cut off 4 3/4 inches. How much hair did she have left?
Be sure your answer is a mixed number and reduced!
55/12
4 7/12 inches
This one..I did in my head so double check my math.
8 children from Mrs. Sumner's class went to see Aladdin. They split 1/2 tub of popcorn. What fraction represents the portion of the tub of popcorn that each children devoured with extra butter on top?
1/16
12.8
12 - 5 + 6 x 3 + 20
45
Laurel had 192 ounces of books that she had written. Her publisher really needed to know how many pounds of books that she planned on sending in the mail. If there are 16 ounces in a pound, how many pounds of books will she be sending. This is before the days when she could just share it through a Google Doc.
12 pounds
Sofia was elated! She found a present for her brother to wrap for his birthday. She had to find a very special box for the shape of the present. It was a parallelogram with four equal sides and no right angles. What was it?
Rhombus
How many 1/4 cup servings can Devin get from 5 cups of sody pop? She loves sody pop and Peppa Pig. Peppa Pig weighs 80 ounces.
20 servings
Which is greatest?
50 hundredths
324 thousandths
16 tenths
4 hundredths
16 tenths
Write an expression for the quotient of 10 and 5 subtracted by 1
(10 divided by 5) -1
but you do not need parentheses
Payton had 362 inches of silly string that he was shooting at his siblings. His mom made him clean it up and put it in feet. She only allowed him to keep the rest of the string for himself. How many inches of string will he get to keep if there are 12 inches in a foot. If there are not 12 inches in a foot, then he can't have any string.
2 inches
(Poor Payton..he shouldn't have made a mess)
Ryan had 354 cases of Pop Rocks. In each case there are 23 packets. How many packets are there?
8,142