NF3:
Fractions as Division
Fractions as Division
After basketball practice, 8 players equally shared 3 large bottles of water. What fraction of a bottle did each player get?
3/8
What is the value of n in the equation shown?
1/4 + n = 11/12
2/3
A rectangular room is 12 1/3 feet long and 10 1/3 feet wide. What is the area of the room
129 1/6
Mr. Wilson bought a bag of birdseed and put half of it in his bird feeder. He split the other half equally among his 4 pet birds. How much of the bag did each bird get?
1/8 bag
Olivia had a piece of wire that was 5 7/8 feet long. She cut a 1 2/16 foot section from the wire. Which measurement is closest to the length of the piece of wire remaining?
5 feet
Three pizzas are shared equally among 12 people. What fraction of pizza will each person get?
1/4
Tracie ran a total of 5 3/4 miles on Saturday and Sunday. She ran 1 5/8 miles on Saturday. How many miles did Tracie run on Sunday?
4 1/8
Jessica has a rectangular walkway that is 21 yards long and 2/3 yard wide. What is the area of Jessica's walkway in square yards?
14
Five friends shared 1/5 kilogram of almonds equally. What fraction of a kilogram of almonds did each friend eat?
1/25
Jimmy and his friends at pizza after the game Friday night. On Saturday, Jimmy saw there were 1 1/8 pizzas left. He ate 3/4 of the pizza for lunch. How much pizza was left?
3/8
Mrs. Sandhir's fifth grade class has 19 students. The students share 6 pizzas, and each student receives an equal amount. What fraction of pizza will each student receive?
6/19
Trisha bought a carton of orange juice. She drank 1/3 of the carton on Monday and 5/12 of the carton on Tuesday. What fraction of the carton did Trisha Drink?
3/4
Joan went to the bookstore
- at this bookstore, 3/4 of the books are fiction
- of the fiction books, 1/3 are mystery books
What fraction of the books at the bookstore are mystery fiction?
1/4
A tunnel is 1/4 mile long. There are 6 lights in the tunnel placed equal distances apart. Write an equation and solve for a solution that shows the distance in miles, d, between the lights in the tunnel?
d= 1/4 / 6
d=1/24
Three friends equally share 1/2 of a pizza. How much of the pizza does each friend get
1/6
Amanda buys a 30 pound bag of potting soil. She puts an equal amount of potting soil into each of 8 flower pots. How many pounds of soil does Amanda put in each pot?
3 3/4 pounds
Devon measures and records his height every year. This year, as a fifth grader, his height is 4 2/3 feet. He has grown 1 1/6 feet since he was in second grade. What was Devon's height when he was in second grade?
3 1/2 feet
Sarah's class collected 2/3 box of canned goods for the food drive each day for 5 days. Sarah calculated that the total number of boxes collected is 5 2/3 boxes. Is this calculation correct?
No
Patrick has a bucket that holds 1/2 of a gallon of water. How many buckets would he need to fill a tub that holds 10 gallons of water?
20 buckets
A bill at a restaurant for $28 needs to be evenly split between 5 people. What fraction would help you solve this problem?
28/5
Jason spent 5 hours during the weekend practicing his 3 sports activities. He spent an equal amount of time on each activity. How long did he spend on each activity?
1 2/3 hours
Antonio sold 3 1/4 baskets of apples on Friday and 6 1/2 baskets of apples on Saturday. He used the equation below to show how to find the total number of baskets of apples he sold on the two days.
3 1/4 + 6 3/6 = 9 4/6
Which sentence describes the error in Antonio's equation?
a. He added instead of subtracting
b. He used incorrect equivalent fractions
c. He used mixed numbers instead of whole numbers
d. He put the fraction after the whole number instead of before it
b. He used incorrect equivalent fractions
Marcus plays basketball for 8 hours each week. His friend Jose spends (b) hours each week playing basketball. Select all values for b where Jose plays more hours of basketball than his friend Marcus.
a. 7/4
b. 3/4
c. 2 1/2
d. 1/20
e. 1/2
A and C
a. 7/4
c. 2 1/2
Mrs. Thomas had 1/2 gallon of apple juice. She poured all of the juice into five glasses, with the same amount in each glass. How much juice did Mrs. Thomas pour into each glass?
1/10 gallon
In an office building, 3 people from a cleaning service have to clean 8 rooms. They want to split the number of room equally. What is the fraction that represents the total number of rooms each person will clean.
8/3