Word Problems
Gabby and her friends go to watch a hockey game. The home team scored 2/5 of the game's total goals. If 10 goals were scored in total, what was the final score? Did the home team win?
Final score 6-4; home team loses.
1/4 and 5/10
3/4
There is a bowl of candy. 1/3 of the candies are kitkats, 2/5 of the bowl are smarties, and the remaining are coffee crisps. How much of the bowl is coffee crisps?
4/15
If Mariah Carey is relevant for the November and December before Christmas and also January after, and isn't relevant the rest of the year, what fraction of the year is she irrelevant?
3/4
3/4 of 3/4
9/16
Suppose there were 30 kitkats, how many coffee crisps would there be?
24
Mei mows 5/8 of her lawn. Patricia mows 4/7 of her lawn. Who mowed more of their lawn?
half of 7/8
7/16
Suppose some aero bars were dumped in. Now, only 1/5 of the bowl is filled with smarties instead of 2/5. How many aero bars were added?
90
John watches boats from a bridge. 6/10 of the boats he saw were red. Of the ones that weren't red, 2/5 were blue and the remaining ones were green.
What is the fraction of green boats, and if there were 500 boats, how many were green?
4/25 ; 80 boats
9/10 without 1/3 and 2/8
19/60
Now there are aero bars, kitkats, smarties, and coffee crisps in the bowl. A greedy mother comes and takes out 1/3 of the coffee crisps (because she is addicted). What fraction of the bowl do the kitkats now occupy?
HINT: You do not need to find out what fraction of the bowl the kitkats occupied after the aero bars were added.
15/86
Janine and Kevin are playing a duet on their saxophones. Janine plays for the first 3/4 of the piece, and Kevin plays for the last 7/15 of the piece. What fraction of the piece were they both playing together?
13/60
A quarter of 3/6 and 67/134
1/4
Trick or treaters come by and take 2/3 of the kitkats, 9/10 of the aero bars, and 5/6 of the smarties. They don't take any coffee crisps.
What fraction of the bowl remaining is coffee crisps (for the greedy mom)?
24/49