5.NSF.1: +/- fractions
Which of the following is the correct sum of 3/8 + 5/8?
8/8 or 1 whole
What is 1/4 x 3/4?
3/16; it is simplified
Violet bakes cookies for the nursing home. She uses 1/2 cup of sugar for 1 batch. How much sugar does she need for 4 batches?
4×1/2=4/2=2 cups of sugar is needed
Matthew Haselden bought an apple that weighed 0.5 pounds and a pear that weighed 0.05 pounds.
Which fruit is heavier?
The apple is heavier because 5 tenths is greater than 0 tenths.
Lila has 84 pieces of candy to divide evenly among 4 friends.
How many pieces will each friend get?
84/4 = 21 pieces of candy for each friend
Ryker has ½ of a pizza and his friend, Carson, gives him ¼ of a pizza. How much pizza does Ryker have now?
3/4
Multiply the fractions and simplify:
2/5 x 3/5 = _____
6/25; it is simplified
Each brick of the wall Clifton is building weighs 2/3 of a pound. How much do 6 bricks weigh altogether?
2/3 x 6 = 12/3 = 4 pounds
A piece of ribbon tied to a tree in Kacen's back yard is 2.45 meters long, and another piece on the tree outside his front window is 2.5 meters long.
Which ribbon is longer?
The ribbon outside his front window is longer because 5 tenths > 4 tenths
Mrs. Hannah has 384 books and wants to place them equally on 6 shelves.
How many books will be on each shelf?
384/6 = 64 books will be on each shelf
What is ⅔ + ¼ when the fractions have different denominators?
11/12
A recipe for strawberry jam calls for 3/4 cup of sugar. Loren wants to make 2/3 of the recipe because she doesn’t need the full amount.
How much sugar will she use?
2/3 x 3/4 = 1/2 cup of sugar
Each slice of pizza is 3/4 of a foot long. If Jaccari eats 5 slices, how many feet of pizza does he eat?
3/4 x 5 = 15/4 = 3 3/4 feet of pizza is how much Jaccari eats.
A blue race car completed one lap in 1.328 seconds, and the red race car completed it in 1.283 seconds.
Which car was faster?
A factory packs 7,200 basketballs into boxes. If each box holds 80 basketballs, how many boxes are needed?
7,200/80=90 boxes are needed
If a recipe calls for ⅓ cup of sugar and you add another ¼ cup, how much sugar have you used?
7/12 cup
Zy'Rielle drank 3/5 of a bottle of juice during lunch. Later, she drank 1 1/2 times as much juice during dinner.
How much juice did Zy'Rielle drink at dinner?
3/5 x 3/2 = 9/10 bottle of juice was consumed at dinner; it is simplified
A jug in Easton's refrigerator holds 1 1/2 liters of sweet tea. If there are 8 jugs, how many liters of sweet tea are there in total?
1 1/2 x 8= 24/2 = 12 liters of sweet tea are in Easton's refrigerator.
2 PART QUESTION - MUST ANSWER BOTH CORRECTLY TO GET POINTS!
Write the number "five and sixty-two thousandths" as a decimal.
Then compare it to 5.26 using <, >, or =.
5.062
5.062 < 5.26 (because of the tenths place)
A school is taking 1,236 students on a field trip using buses that each hold 50 students.
How many buses are needed to transport the students?
1,236/50 = 24 R 36
The school will need 25 buses (24 buses will have 50 students on them; 1 bus will only have 36 students on it)
Which expression represents the correct addition of fractions?
A) 2/5 + 3/5 = 5/10
B) 2/5 + 3/5 = 1
C) 2/5 + 3/5 = 6/10
D) 2/5 + 3/5 = 7/10
B) 2/5 + 3/5 = 1
A piece of yarn is 5/6 yard long. Mattie needs 2/5 of that length to make a bracelet.
How much yarn will Mattie use for the bracelet?
2/5 x 5/6 = 10/30 = 1/3 yard of yarn is needed
Mariah bikes 2/5 of a mile each lap. She bikes 3 laps in the morning and 4 laps in the afternoon.
How many total miles does she bike in a day?
(2/5 x 3) + (2/5 x 4) = 6/5 + 8/5 - 14/5 = 2 4/5 total miles biked each day by Mariah
2 PART QUESTION - MUST ANSWER BOTH CORRECTLY TO GET POINTS!
Four students recorded how far they jumped in meters:
JR: 2.456 feet
Camille: 2.465 feet
Meredith: 2.546 feet
Ayden: 2.456 feet
a) Who jumped the farthest?
b) Who jumped the same distance?
Meredith jumped the farthest;
JR & Ayden jumped the same distance
At Sabrina Carpenter's concert, the arena has 4,752 seats divided equally into 12 sections. Each section has 3 rows of equal size. How many seats are in each row?
4,752÷12=396 seats per section
396÷3=132 seats per row
There are 132 seats in each row.