Multiplying Fractions
Dividing Fractions
Basic Problems
Divide or Multiply?
Model Drawing
100
1/4 of 8/9
What is 2/9?
100
1/3 divided by 2
What is 1/6?
100
Sarah had a piece of ribbon 1/2 m long. She used 1/3 of it to tie a box. This gives the length of the ribbon used.
What is 1/6 m?
100
This tells how many 1/2 hour periods make up 4 hours.
What is 8?
100
Samantha bought some stools. 1/3 of them were orange and 1/4 of them were green. The remaining 35 stools were white. This tells the number of stools that Samantha bought.
What is 84?
200
1/3 of 6/7
What is 2/7
200
4/9 divided by 8
What is 1/18?
200
Chef Lieu bought 4/5 kg of eggplant. He cooked 3/4 of it in a dish. This tells how much eggplant he cooked.
What is 3/5 kg?
200
This tells how many 1/4 lb. bricks there are in a box holding 3 lbs. of bricks.
What is 12?
200
Tom Hoerr spend 3/5 of his money in a tie shop and 1/4 of the remainder in a joke shop. He had $90 left. This tells how much money he had at first.
What is $300?
300
9/10 X 5/12
What is 3/8?
300
4 divided by 6/7
What is 4 2/3?
300
Kira ate 1/6 of a pizza and gave 1/5 of the remainder to her nephew. This tells the fraction of the pizza that the nephew got.
What is 1/6?
300
Kiera used 6 m of string to tie some packages. She used 2/3 m for tying each package. This tells how many packages she could tie.
What is 9?
300
Paul spent 2/5 of his money on a book and the remainder on a gift. He spent $8 more on the book than on the gift. This tells how much money he had left.
What is $24?
400
5/6 X 7/10 X 3/15
What is 7/60?
400
3/4 divided by 5/8
What is 1 1/5?
400
This tells the area of a rectangle that measures 5/8 m by 3/5 m.
What is 3/8 meters squared?
400
Chef Lieu had 2 kg of beef. He used 4/5 of it to make a stew. This tells how many kilograms of beef he had left.
What is 2/5 kg?
400
Roosevelt read 2/5 of a book on Monday. He read 12 pages on Tuesday. If he still had 1/2 of the book left to read, this tells how many pages were in the book (total).
What is 120 pages?
500
11/13 X 26/27 X 9/18
What is 11/27?
500
5/8 divided by 2/5
What is 1 9/16?
500
2/3 of a wall was painted gold. 1/4 of the remaining wall was painted red. This tells the fraction that was painted red.
What is 1/12?
500
Kevin cuts 6 pieces of tape, each 4/5 m long, from a roll of tape that is 5 m long. This tells how many meters of tape are left in the roll.
What is 1/5 m?
500
1/4 of the beads in a box are blue. There are 24 more purple beads than blue beads. The remaining 76 beads are pink. This tells how many beads there were altogether.
What is 200 beads?
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