Divide Decimals
Jessica is making small bags of dried fruit from a large bag of dried fruit that weighs 5.46 pounds. If she puts the same amount of dried fruit in each of 6 bags, how much will each bag weigh?
0.91 pounds
A school bought 1,000 erasers as part of an order for supplies. The total cost of the erasers was $30. What was the cost for 1 eraser?
$0.03
Wade used 2/3 gallon of yellow paint and 1/4 gallon of white paint to paint his dresser. How many gallons of paint did Wade use?
11/12 gallon
Addison bought 5/6 yard of ribbon. She used 1/4 yard of the ribbon to decorate her scrapbook. How much ribbon did she have left after decorating the scrapbook?
7/ 12 yards
14/24 yards
*If solved correctly you may get another answer which would be an equivalent fraction to 7/12 yards*
Winnie bought tomatoes that cost $0.84 per pound. She paid $3.36 for the tomatoes. How many pounds of tomatoes did she buy?
4 pounds
Tanya baked 100 cupcakes one morning in a bakery. She used 64 ounces of frosting to decorate the cupcakes. If each cupcake had the same amount of frosting, how much frosting did Tanya put on each cupcake?
0.64 ounces
Ken bought 3 3/4 pounds of apples at the farmers’ market. Nick bought 2 1/8 pounds of apples. How many pounds of apples did Ken and Nick buy?
5 7/8 pounds
Mr. Barber uses 7/9 yard of wire to put up a ceiling fan. He uses 1/ 3 yard of wire to fix a switch. How much more wire does he use to put up the fan than to fix the switch?
4/9 yard of wire
Mac has a piece of ribbon that is 30.5 yards long. The length is just enough ribbon to make 5 bows that are the same size. How long is the ribbon that he uses for each bow?
6.1 yards
Georgia wants to find the total of 2/3 cup of blueberries and 5/8 cup of raspberries. What is the least common denominator of the fractions?
24
Sal's cat weighed 6 3/4 pounds last year. Then the cat gained 1 1/2 pounds. How much does the cat weigh now?
8 1/4 pounds
Ray saw an American alligator at a zoo that measured 12 11/12 feet long. The record length of an American alligator is 19 1/6 feet long. How much longer is the record alligator than the alligator Ray saw?
6 1/4
6 3/12