Word Problems
Melissa had 2 1/4 cans of paint. Then she used 1 1/8 cans of the paint. How much paint does Melissa have left?
1 1/8 cans
You must solve this with a model!
2/3 x 1/2
1/3
4 7/12 + 2 5/6 - 11/12
8 1/12
Molly used 1 8/10 cup of milk to make chocolate milk, and Time used 1/5 of a cup less than Molly. How much milk did they use altogether?
3 2/5 cups
Lindsey read 2/5 of a book on Monday. She read 12 pages on Tuesday. If she still had 1/2 of the book to read, how many pages were there in the book?
120 pages
Julie went to a school fair. She spend 3/8 of her money on food, 1/2 of her money on games, and the rest on rides. What fraction of her money did Julie spend on rides?
1/8 of her money
You must solve this with a model!
1/2 ÷ 3
1/6
5 3/8 + 3 3/4
9 1/8
Hannah bought a roll that contained 6 1/3 feet of ribbon. She has used 3 5/6 feet of ribbon from the roll. How much ribbon is left in the roll?
2 1/2 feet of ribbon left
1/4 of the beads in a box are red. There are 24 more yellow beads than red beats. The remaining 76 beads are blue. How many beans are there altogether?
200 beads altogether
Tammy used 8/10 quart of water for her lemonade and used 3/5 quart less water for her tea. How many quarts of water did she use in total?
1 quart
You must solve this with a model!
5 ÷ 1/4
20
1 1/2 x 4 1/3
6 1/2
1/4 are mystery fiction books
After paying $30 for a shirt, David had 3/5 of his money left. How much money did he have at first?
$75
Sheldon and his three friends pick 17 pints of strawberries. They eat 2 of the pints on the way home from the strawberry patch and then divide the rest evenly among them. How many pints of strawberries does each person get?
3 3/4 pints
You must solve this with a model!
3/4 x 1/31/4
112 1/3 - 109 3/8
2 23/24
Eight gardeners equally share 1/2 of a pile of pine needles. What fraction of the pile does each gardener receive?
1/16 of the pile
Ryan withdrew 1/4 of his savings from the bank. He spent $450 of it and had $150 left. How much money was his total savings in the bank at first?
$2400
A rectangular room is 12 1/2 feet long and 10 1/3 feet wide. What is the area of the room?
129 1/6 square feet
You must draw a model to solve this!
6 ÷ 2/3
9
11 3/4 x 10 1/2
123 3/8
Darice had 5 feet of ribbon. She needs 1/3 foot of ribbon to make an ornament. How many ornaments can she make with the amount of ribbon she has?
15 ornaments
Nicole bought 6 m of cloth to make a skirt and 3 shirts. She used 1 3/4 m for the skirt and 3/4 m for each shirt. How much cloth did she have left?
2 m