Dividing
Fractions
Fractions
2/3 div 1/4
2 2/3
Nehemiah has 4/5 of a gallon of paint that he wants to use to paint his bird houses. He has 6 bird houses. How much of the gallon of paint will Nehemiah use for each bird house?
4/30 or 2/15 gallon of paint
5/6 div 5/7
1 5/30 or 1 1/6
Dyson has 5 pounds of candy. He wants to pit 1/4 of a pound into small goodie bags for his friends. How many bags of candy can he make?
20 bags of candy
1 1/2 div 1 1/3
1 1/8
Christian baked cookies. Each dozen cookies has 2 2/3 cups of sugar. She used 10 cups of sugar. How many dozens of cookies did she make?
3 6/8 or 3 3/4 dozen cookies.
2 1/4 div 1 2/3
1 7/20
Romeo had 12 1/2 bags of soil. He wants to put the soil into 6 different pots. How much soil will each pot get?
2 1/12 bags of soil
3 4/5 div 3 3/4
1 1/75
Aaron wants to make a dog house. Aaron knows that the area of the dog house needs to be 12 1/5 feet. The length of the dog house is 3 1/2 feet. What is the width that the dog house needs to be?
Hint: A = L x W W= A divided by L
3 17/35 feet