Cookin' up fractions
There was 5/8 of a pie left in the fridge. Daniel ate 1/4 of the leftover pie. How much of a pie did he have?
5/32 of the pie
A baker is making croissants. He has 18 pounds of dough. Each croissant is made from 1/8 pounds of dough. How many croissants can he make?
18 divided by 1/8
Keep change flip
18 times 8
The baker can make 144 croissants.
There are about 795 houses in this region. The average family size is 6 people. There are about __________ people living in the region.
a. 4,800 b. 5,000 c. 5,500
1. 4,800
Of the 95 children in 6th grade, 3/5 went to holiday parties. How many students went to holiday parties in all?
95 x 3 / 5 = 57 57 students went to holiday parties.
Suppose you want to buy three loaves of bread that cost $1.50 each and a jar of peanut butter that costs $4. A jar of jelly is $2.75, but you don’t need any jelly. You have $10. How much money will you have left over?
The jelly is extra information. 10.00 – 3 x 1.50 – 4.00 = 10.00 – 4.50 – 4.00 = 1.50. You have $1.50 left.
Olivia took out 8 glasses and poured juice from the pitcher. The capacity of each glass is 3/10 liter. If there was enough juice for 6 glasses, how much juice was there?
1 4/5 liter
The kitchen assistant is helping the chef to serve soup. The chef made 3 pots of soup and the assistant is putting 1/16 cups of cream on top of the soup in each bowl. There are 12 cups of cream. How many bowls of soup can the assistant help prepare?
The assistant can help prepare 192 bowls of soup.
In a town, there are 1,349 families. If there are on average two children attending elementary school from each family and each school can accommodate 220 children, the minimum number of elementary schools needed in the region is __________.
a. 6 b. 9 c. 13
c.13
Amy has 72 sweets in a bag. She keeps ¼ of them for herself and shares the rest with friends. How many sweets will she give to her friends?
She keeps 72 x 1/4 = 18 sweets. She gives away 72 – 18 = 54 sweets. She gives away 54 sweets.
The star running back on our football team got most of his total yardage running. The rest was catching passes. He caught passes for 60 yards. His total yardage was 150 yards. The running back for the other team got 200 yards. How many yards did the star running back on our football team get running?
The other team is extra information. 150 – 60 = 90 He got 90 yards running.
Pam baked some cupcakes for her friends. She baked 24 cupcakes. Each cupcake is 2/15 pound. If she packed 6 cupcakes in each box, what is the weight of each box?
The weight of each box is 4/5 pounds.
According to the food label on a box cookies, each box has 16 servings and each serving contains 4 cookies. The weight of the box of cookies is kilograms. What is the weight of each cookie?
Each cookie weighs 1/128 kilograms.
In 2017, a survey finds that there are 34 babies born for every 1,000 families in a city. Among these babies, 20 of them are boys. There are 88,326 families in this city in 2017 and the total number of girls born in this year is about __________.
a. 1,200 b. 1,500 c. 1,800
a.1,200
A train arrives at the station with 150 passengers on board. 2/5 of the passengers get off the train in Seattle, and then 35 passengers board the train. How many passengers are on the train when it leaves the station?
150 x 2/5 = 60 people get off. 150 – 60 + 35 = 125 125 passengers are on board the train when it leaves the station.
The average temperature in Lincoln in July is 85 degrees. Last Wednesday, it was 90 degrees. Today it was 15 degrees cooler than last Wednesday. What was the temperature today?
The July temperature is extra information. 90 – 15 = 75 It was 75 degrees today.
According to a recipe, each batch of pancake mix can make 12 pancakes. Kathy is making 3 batches for a brunch party. If each batch needs 7/12 cups of milk, how much milk does she need in total?
She needs 1 3/4 cups of milk in total.
Grandma made an apple pie. Josh and his brother Joe finished 4/5 of it. Then, three friends came over and shared the leftover pie. How much of the pie did each friend eat?
Each friend ate 1/15 of the pie.
The population of a city is 67,721 and the neighboring city has a population of 52,103. The difference between two cities is __________.
a. 13,000 b. 14,000 c. 16,000
c.16,000
30 people watched the soccer game last night. Tickets cost $2.75 each. Half of these fans bought a program at $1.50 each. How much money was collected?
30 x 2.75 = 82.50 collected for tickets. ½ of the people bought a program, so 30 * 1/2 = 15 bought programs. 15 x 1.50 = 22.50 collected for programs 82.50 + 22.50 = 105 They collected $105.
Martin has a business washing cars. Last year he washed 20 cars a week. This year, he wants to increase his business to 1,200 cars a year. How many cars will he have to wash each month on average?
100 per month
There are 7/8 kilograms of salt in the kitchen. Mrs. Jackson used 2/5 of the salt when she was preparing dinner. How much salt did she have left?
She had 19/40 of a kilogram of salt left.
Each batch of cupcake mix requires 1/3 of a cup of milk. According to the recipe, the batch can make 12 small cupcakes or 8 large cupcakes. If Emma makes a batch of large cupcakes, how much milk is used for each cupcake?
1/24 cup of milk is used for each large cupcake.
In 2016, the population of a region was 91,274. In 2017, the population was increased by 6,015. In 2017, the population was about __________.
a. 85,000 b. 97,300 c. 99,800
b.97,300
Dean buys 25 stickers on Monday and 17 on Tuesday, On Wednesday he gives 1/6 of his stickers to Jack. How many does he have left?
25 + 17 = 42 total stickers.
He gave away 42 x 1/6 = 7. 42 – 7 = 35. He has 35 stickers left.
In track last week, the boys ran sixteen laps. The girls ran four more laps. Each lap is a quarter of a mile. How many miles did the girls run?
The girls ran 16 + 4 = 20 laps. 20 x ¼ = 20/4, which reduces to 5. The girls ran 5 miles.