Generate Equivalent Fractions: Multiply
Wayne bought a box of muffins. Four sixths of the muffins are blueberry. Write a fraction equivalent to 4/6.
Possible Answers: 2/3 or 8/12 or 12/18 or 16/24 or 20/30
Sara bought a piece of ribbon that was 6/10 meter long. Write the length as an equivalent fraction.
3/5
Robert needs 3/8 stick of butter to make muffins and 2/3 stick of butter to make cookies. Which recipe uses more butter?
The cookie recipe uses more butter. 2/3 > 3/8
Angie has a box that is ¾ foot long. Which fraction is equal to the length, in feet, of the box?
A: 6/12
B: 8/12
C: 9/12
D: 11/12
C: 9/12
Mt. Etna is a volcano that measures 10,925 feet above sea level at its highest point. This is 11,664 feet less than the height of the world’s highest volcano. What is the height, in feet, of the world’s highest volcano?
2,589 feet.
A librarian said one half of the books checked out yesterday were nonfiction. What is a fraction that is equivalent to 1/2?
Possible Answers: 2/4 or 3/6 or 4/8 or 5/10
Laurie says summer is 1/4 of the year. Maria says summer is 3/12 of the year. Who is correct?
Both are correct. Summer lasts 3 months out of 12 months in the year. 1/4 is an equivalent fraction for 3/12.
Jordan has 5/8 can of green paint and 3/6 can of blue paint. If the cans are the same size, does Jordan have more green paint or blue paint?
Jordan has more green paint because 3/6 = 1/2 and 5/8 is greater than 1/2.
Jason has a red pail and a blue pail that are the same size. The red pail is 3/5 full with water. The blue pail is 9/10 full with water. If the pails are the same size, which pail has more water?
The blue pail. 9/10 > 3/5
Each team in a football league had 53 players on it. There are 32 teams in the league. How many total players are in the league?
There are 1,696 total players.
One sixth of the vegetables planted in a garden are carrots. Write 3 fractions equivalent to 1/6.
Possible Answer: 2/12 and 3/18 and 4/24
One song was on the Billboard Top 100 chart for 30 days out of 100. What are two equivalent fractions for 30/100?
15/50 and 3/10
Juan read 5/6 of an hour. Larissa read for 7/8 of an hour. Who read for a longer period of time? Explain.
Larissa read for longer. 7/8 = 21/24 and 5/6 = 20/24. 21/24 > 20/24
Pauline has two sticks. One is 4/10 meter long. The other is 9/100 meter long. Which stick is bigger.
4/10 > 9/100
Jordan and Sara are reading different books. Jordan’s book has 70 pages. The number of pages in Sara’s book is a factor of the number of pages in Jordan’s book. How many pages could be in Sara’s book?
A: 17
B: 35
C: 140
D: 170
B: 35
A gardener decides to use fractions to plant vegetables. She decides to plant:
1/6 carrots
1/4 tomatoes
4/12 peppers
3/12 beans
Which vegetables take up the same amount of space in the garden?
Tomatoes and Beans take up the same amount of space because 1/4 = 3/12.
In early May, Fairbanks, Alaska, has daylight for 18/24 hours of the day. What are two fractions equivalent to 18/24?
9/12 and 6/8 and 3/4
Jackson played a video game for 1/6 hour. Hailey played a video game for 1/3 hour. Who played the video game for a greater amount of time?
Hailey. 1/3 = 2/6 and 2/6 > 1/6
In each box of bananas, 2/10 of the bananas are already ripe. How many bananas are already ripe in a box of 30 bananas?
6 will already be ripe in a box of 30 bananas.
Divide 5,917 by 4.
1,470 R1
Three eighths (3/8) of the students in Mrs. Mull’s class ride the bus. If there are 24 students in the class, how many students ride the bus?
3/8 = 9/24, so 9 students ride the bus.
Cindy is using division to write a fraction equivalent to 30/100. She tried to divide the numerator and denominator by 3 and got stuck. What advice would you give her?
I would tell Cindy to choose a number that is a common factor of the numerator and denominator so she can divide both evenly. 3 is a factor of 30, but not a factor of 100.
Isabella’s father is building a model dinosaur with small pieces of wood. He wants to organize the pieces by putting them from smallest to largest. Put the fractions in order from least to greatest: 4/10, 1/5, 5/20, and 4/5.
I used a common denominator of 20:
4/10 = 8/20 ; 1/5 = 4/20 ; 5/20 ; 4/5 = 16/20.
So the order from least to greatest is:
1/5, 5/20, 4/10, 16/20
In a box of 24 chocolate pieces, 2/3 of the pieces have peanuts in them. How many of the chocolate pieces have peanuts in them?
16 pieces have peanuts.
Peter, Ingrid, and Anna collect posters. Peter has 14 posters. Ingrid has 6 more posters than Peter. Anna has 3 times as many posters as Ingrid. How many posters do Peter, Ingrid, and Anna have altogether?
94 posters.