Fractions 1
A group of 8 hikers has 7 pounds of trail mix. How many pounds of trail mix does each hiker get?
7/8 pounds
A forest preserve posts a mile-marker sign every 1/4 mile. How many markers are there along a 5-mile trail?
20 signs
What is the area of a rectangle that is 6 7/8 inches by 7 1/2 inches?
51 9/16 square inches
Jen and Tina are painting a fence. Jen paints 2/3 of a fence and Tina paints 5/6 of a fence. How much more of a fence does Tina paint than Jen?
5/6-2/3 = 1/6 more of the fence
A baker makes 6 loaves of bread using 7 pounds of dough. If each loaf is the same weight, how many pounds is each loaf of bread?
7/6 or 1 1/6 pounds
What is the quotient of 8 divided by 1/3?
24
Daria spends 1/4 of her tickets at the fair on rides. Of those tickets she spends 5/6 on roller coasters. What fraction of her tickets does she spend on roller coaster rides?
1/4 X 5/6 = 5/24 of her tickets.
Jayden uses 3 3/4 cups of wheat flour and 5 1/8 cups of white flour to make bread. How many cups of flour does Jayden use in all?
8 7/8 cups
A basketball league orders 50 new basketballs for the 8 teams in the league. Each team gets the same number of basketballs. How many basketballs does each team get?
Each team gets 6 basketballs with 2 basketballs left over.
In Felicia's garden, 1/3 of the flowers are tulips. She plants 3 different colors of tulips. What fraction of Felicials flower garden is each color of tulip?
1/9
Danny walked 18 miles last week. He walked 1/6 of the distance on Monday. How many miles did he walk on MOnday?
18 X 1/6 = 3 miles.
Fran has 2 5/6 pounds of modeling clay. She uses 1 5/9 pounds of clay to make a bowl. How much clay does Fran have left?
1 5/24 pounds
A pitcher holds 56 ounces of lemonade. Alice pours an equal amount into each of the 6 glasses until the pitcher is empty. How much lemonade does she pour into each glass?
9 2/6 or 9 1/3 ounces
Clancy made 50 wood carvings to sell at a craft show. He sold the same number of wood carvings each of the 6 days. Did Clancy sell all of his wood carvings? If not, how many were remaining?
No. 50 divided by 6 = 8 carvings every day with a remainder of 2 carvings.
what is the area of the rectangle that is 3 5/8 feet by 3 feet?
10 7/8 square feet
Angela walked for 7/10 hour yesterday and 5/8 hour today. For about how long did Anglela walk in the two days.
Between 1 hour and 1 1/2 hours.
A restaurant serves its slices of pizza as 1/6 of a whole pizza. How many slices of pizza can the restaurant serve from 2 whole pizzas?
12 slices
Helena has 1/4 of a jigsaw puzzle left to build. Sh wants to finish the puzzle by completing the same amount every day for the next 3 days. How much of the puzzle should she complete each day.
1/12 of the puzzle each days. 1/4 dividedd by 3 = 1/12
A caterer provides 10 pounds of coleslaw for an event. They plan to serve 1/6 pound in each serving bowl. If they use 1/8 pound of coleslaw in each bowl instead of 1/6 pound, how many more bowls of coleslaw can they serve? Explain.
20 more bowls. Using 1/6 pounds is 10 divided by 1/6 = 60 bowls. Using 1/8 pounds is 10 divided by 1/8 = 80 bowls. 80-60 = 20 more bowls.
Charlie jumped a distance of 8 1/2 feet. His younger browther jumped 3 5/6 feet and then jumped 2 1/4 feet. Who jumped farther. How much farther?
Charlie jumped 2 5/12 feet farther.