Find The Reciprocal
The number in a division problem that describes the number of groups or size of groups.
What is the Divisor?
What is the Quotient?
1/3 ÷ 1/4
What is 1 1/3?
A chef had 7 potatoes. How many bowls of mashed potatoes could he make if each bowl used 1/5 of a potato?
What is 35 bowls?
The number that tells you the whole amount that is being split up.
What is the Dividend?
3 ÷ 3/4
What is 4?
1/2 ÷ 2/5
What is 1 1/4?
How many 1/4 pound hambugers can be made from 2 1/2 pounds of ground beef?
What is 10 hamburgers?
The answer to a division problem that can tell us the size of our groups or the number of groups.
What is the Quotient?
1/4 ÷ 1/2
What is 1/2?
A zookeeper is 6 1/4 feet tall. A young giraffe at the zoo is 9 3/8 feet tall. How many times as tall as the zookeeper is the giraffe?
What is 1 1/2 times as tall?
Find the reciprocal of 2 3/4
What is 4/11?
The name of the number that is formed when the numerator and denominator in a fraction are switched
What is the reciprocal?
4 1/2 ÷ 1/6
What is 15?
3/8 ÷ 1/6
What is 2 1/4?
Jay is cutting a roll of cookie dough into slices that are 3/8 inch thick. If the roll is 10 1/2 inches long, how many slices can he cut?
What is 28 slices?
Find the reciprocal of 3 1/2
What is 2/7?
The step by step process used to divide fractions. This includes multiplying by the reciprocal.
What is the algorithm or standard algorithm?
7 1/3 ÷ 1/8
What is 58 2/3?
5/9 ÷ 7/8
What is 40/63?
Lena has painted 3/4 of a room. She has used 1 1/2 gallons of paint. How much paint will she need for the whole room?
What is 2 gallons of paint?