Common Who Da Whatta?
5/6 + 5/12
1 1/4
2/3 x 6/7
4/7
Find the reciprocal of 3 2/3
3/11
Each of the 15 students in Mr. Levek's Social Studies class will give a 1 1/2 minute speech. How long will it take to give all of the speeches?
22 1/2 minutes
3 divided by 5/6
3 3/5
5/8 - 5/24
5/12
5/6 x 9/15
1/2
Write an equivalent expression for 4/5 x 7/8
4/5 divided by 8/7
A container has 3 6/7 pounds of flour.
Mr. Wright gives each member of his cooking class 3/14 pound of flour, which empties the container.
How many people are in Mr. Wright’s class?
18 people
The fraction 34/5 lies between which two whole numbers?
6 and 7
3/5 + 1/3 + 7/10
1 19/30
Louis spent 12 hours last week practicing his instrument. If he spent 1/4 of the time working on playing chords, how much time did Louis spend practicing chords?
3 hours
Donna divided a 4 3/7 pound bag of apples among her 5 friends. How many pounds of apples did each of the five receive?
31/35
Aaron buys a bag of pecans that weighs 4/5 of a pound. Later that week, the bag is 2/3 full. How much does the bag of pecans weigh now?
8/15 pound
5 7/12 - 3 3/4
1 5/6
3 5/12 + 1 3/8 - 7/6
3 5/8
Half of the pizza was broccoli and half was mushroom. George ate 2/3 of the broccoli part and 1/4 of the mushroom part. How much of the pizza did he eat?
11/24 of the pizza
A wire is 4 1/2 feet long is being cut into smaller pieces of wire, each 1 2/5 feet long. How many whole pieces of wire do you have?
3 whole pieces
Ken spent 1/5 of his allowance on a movie, 7/10 on snacks, and 1/20 on games. If his allowance was $20, how much did Ken have left?
$1
Jamal hiked on two trails. The first trail was 5 1/3 miles long, and the second trail was 1 3/4 times as long as the first trail. How many miles did Jamal hike?
14 2/3 miles
What else could you call the least common multiple in an addition or subtraction problem involving fractions?
Finding Common Denominators
Using the distributive property, rewrite the following expression as a sum of two numbers:
7/8(2/5 + 4/11)
7/20 + 7/22
6 4/5 divided by 3 7/2
1 3/65
Yuki has a ribbon that is 11 1/4 feet long. She cuts it into pieces that are each 1 7/8 feet long. She uses three pieces to make a bow. How many bows can she make in all?
2 bows
Eva wants to make two pieces of pottery. She needs 3/5 pound clay for one piece and 7/10 pound of clay for the other piece. She has 3 bags of clay that weigh 4/5 pound each. How many pounds of clay will she have left over?
1 1/10 pounds left over