Multiplying Fractions
Sarah had a piece of ribbon 1/2 m long. She used 1/3 of it to tie a box. What is the length of the ribbon Sarah used?
What is 1/6 m?
How many 1/2 hour periods make up 4 hours?
4 divided by 1/2 = 8 half hour periods
Samantha bought some stools. 1/3 of them were orange and 1/4 of them were green. The remaining 35 stools were white. How many stools did Samantha buy?
What is 84?
1/3 divided by 8
What is 1/24?
Chef Lieu bought 4/5 lb of eggplant. He cooked 3/4 of it in a dish. How much eggplant did he cook?
What is 3/5 lb?
How many 1/4 lb. bricks can fit in a box that holds 3 lbs.?
3 divided by 1/4 = 12 bricks
Frank spend 3/5 of his money at Best Buy and 1/4 of the remainder at Wawa. He had $90 left. How much money did Frank have to start with?
What is $300?
4 divided by 1/7
What is 28?
Kira ate 1/6 of a pizza and gave 1/5 of the remainder to her nephew. What fraction of the pizza did Kira give to her nephew?
What is 1/6?
Kiera used 6 m of string to tie some packages. She used 1/3 m for tying each package. How many packages did she tie?
6 divided by 1/3 = 18 packages
Cody 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. How much money did he have left?
What is $24?
2 5/6 X 1 7/10
What is 5 7/60?
6 divided by 1/8
What is 48?
This tells the area of a rectangle that measures 1 5/8 m by 1 3/5 m.
What is 1 3/5 meters squared?
Chef Lieu bought 2 kg of beef. He used 4/5 of it to make a stew. How many kilograms of beef did he have left?
What is 2/5 kg?
Nora read 2/5 of a book on Monday. She read 12 pages on Tuesday. If she still had 1/2 of the book left to read, how many pages were in the book (total)?
What is 120 pages?
5 1/2 x 2 3/4
What is 15 1/8?
1/5 divided by 12
What is 1/60?
2/3 of a wall was painted gold. 1/4 of the remaining wall was painted red. What fraction of the wall was painted red?
What is 1/12?
Kevin cuts 6 pieces of tape, each 4/5 m long, from a roll of tape that is 5 m long. How many meters of tape are left in the roll?
What is 1/5 m?
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. How many beads are there altogether?
What is 200 beads?