Numerator & Denominator
What is the numerator in 6/11?
Answer: 6
Which is greater — 3/9 or 7/9?
Answer: 7/9
Are 1/2 and 4/8 equivalent?
Answer: Yes
A pie is cut into 6 equal slices. You eat 2 slices. What fraction of the pie did you eat?
Answer: 2/6 or 1/3
What is the denominator in 8/15?
Answer: 15
Which is greater — 1/6 or 1/3?
Answer: 1/3
Are 2/3 and 4/9 equivalent?
Answer: No
A class of 18 students voted on a field trip. 11 students voted yes. What fraction voted yes?
Answer: 11/18
In the fraction 9/13 what does the denominator tell you?
Answer: The whole is divided into 13 equal parts.
Which is greater — 5/8 or 3/8?
Answer: 5/8
Write a fraction equivalent to 1/3.
Answer: Any correct equivalent such as 2/6 or 3/9
A garden has 15 flowers. 7 of them are red. What fraction of the flowers are not red?
Answer: 8/15
In the fraction 4/7 what does the numerator tell you?
Answer: You have 4 out of 7 equal parts.
Which is greater — 1/4 or 1/7?
Answer: 1/4
Write a fraction equivalent to 3/5.
Answer: Any correct equivalent such as 6/10 or 9/15
A bag of 20 candies has 9 chocolate and the rest are fruity. What fraction of the candies are fruity?
Answer: 11/20
Write a fraction where the numerator is 5 and the denominator is 12.
Answer: 5/12
Order these from least to greatest: 4/11, 9/11, 2/11
Answer: 2/11, 4/11, 9/11
Are 5/10 and 1/2 equivalent? How do you know?
Answer: Yes. 5/10 simplifies to 1/2 because 5 divided by 5 is 1 and 10 divided by 5 is 2.
A bookstore has 24 books on a display shelf. 3/8 of them are on sale. How many books are on sale?
Answer: 9 books