Converting Improper Fractions
Miss Casey is giving out new pencils. She has 16 pencils total. 4 of them are black, 7 are pink, and 2 are purple. If she gives out the black and purple what fraction did she give out? What is the equivalent decimal?
6/16 = 0.375
Nicole is baking cookies. She bakes 10 chocolate chip cookies, 3 sugar cookies, and 5 oatmeal cookies. What fraction of the cookies are chocolate chip and oatmeal? What is the equivalent decimal?
15/18 = 5/6
0.83
Grace Li is eating watermelon. It is cut into 16 pieces. If she eats half of the watermelon what fraction tells me how much is left? What is the equivalent decimal?
8/16 = 1/2
0.5
Chloe is making bracelets with color beads. She has 9 yellow beads, 8 blue beads, 4 green beads, 7 pink beads, and 8 white beads. She used half of the blue beads and 5 of the pink beads. What fraction tells how many beads she has used so far? What is the equivalent decimal?
9/36 = 0.25
Grant is cleaning out his garage. There are all sorts of balls that his mom wants him to sort through. He has 4 footballs, 2 soccer balls, 8 basketballs, 22 tennis balls, and 5 baseballs. Grant decides 3 basketballs, 14 tennis balls and 2 soccer balls are flat and can be thrown away. What is the fraction that shows how many balls were thrown out and what is the fraction that shows how many balls he's keeping?
Thrown away: 19/41
Keeping: 22/41