Dividing Whole Numbers by Fractions
Carmen was trying to collect 5 pounds of cans to recycle. If she collects one-half of a pound each day, how many days will it take to collect 5 pounds?
What is 10 days?
A farmer was dividing up his one-fifth of an acre of land between his 3 children. Since each child got the same amount of land, what fraction of the acre did each get?
What is 1/15 of an acre?
Paigee was swimming laps in the pool. She swam a total of 1/4 kilometer in 10 laps. What was the length of each lap she swam?
1/40 Kilometer
A container of 2 metal beams weighed one-seventh of a ton. If every beam weighed the same amount, how heavy was each?
What is 1/14 of a ton?
You have just bought 6 pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream for a party you are having. If you serve each of your guests 1/4 of a pint of ice cream, how many guests can you serve?
What is 24?
A group of 9 friends bought a one-fifth of a pound of bubblegum. If they split it equally, how much would each friend get?
What is 1/45 of a pound?
Tony hiked 4 miles. Each day he hiked 1/3 mile. How many days did he hike?
Morgan said one-third divided by four is the equation to solve the problem.
Brandon said four divided by one-third is the equation to solve it. Who is correct? What's the answer?
Who is Brandon?
You and your friend are making an art project. The art teacher has given you 1/6 of a foot of tape. How many feet of tape will each of you receive if you both get the same amount? Victroia says this can be solved by dividing one-sixth by two. Drew says it should be solved by dividing two by one-sixth. Which student set up the problem correctly?
Who is Victoria?
One-fourth of all of the pictures Kamari posts to Instagram are of her dogs.
She takes an equal number of pictures of all 3 of her dogs: Duchess, Snickers and Choo Choo.
If Kamari has posted 480 pictures on her Instagram, how many pictures are of Snickers?
What are 40 pictures?
Braylon and Chris each ran laps around the track. Braylon completed his run in 16 minutes.
Chris completed his run in 3/4 of the amount of time of Braylon’s run. What was Braylon’s time?
What is 12 minutes?