Simplifying Fractions
The simplified form of 2/3.
What is 2/3?
2 times 2/3.
What is 4/3?
OR
What is 1 1/3?
A factory makes sheet of metal that are 1/8 of an inch thick. A worker at the factory makes a stack of 10 sheets. The height of the stack, in inches.
What is 5/4 of an inch?
or
What is 1 1/4 inches?
1/10 of 20.
What is 2?
The number of children wearing white shoes, if there are 18 children, 4/6 of whom are wearing white shoes.
What is 12?
The simplified form of 6/10.
What is 3/5?
1/3 times 5.
What is 5/3?
OR
What is 1 2/3?
Cattle get 3 bales of hay each day. Horses get 1/3 as much hay as the cattle get. The amount of hay horses get each day.
What is 1 bale of hay?
2/3 of 12.
What is 8?
The number of blue ink pens in a drawer, if there are 12 pens and 2 quarters of them are blue.
What is 6?
The simplified form of 4/12.
What is 1/3?
4 times 3/4.
What is 3?
Julie picks 5 barrels of tomatoes in her garden. Axle picks 7/8 as many tomatoes as Julie did. The number of barrels of tomatoes Axle picked.
What is 35/8?
OR
What is 4 3/8?
11/17 of 51.
What is 33?
85 cars in a parking lot, eight-seventeenths of which are blue. The number of blue cars in the parking lot.
What is 40?
The simplified form of 34/60.
What is 17/30?
7/5 times 10.
What is 14?
Vincent spend 92 hours studying math last year. 3/4 of that time was spent studying Algebra. The number of hours Vincent spend studying Algebra.
What is 69 hours?
2/11 of 3.
What is 6/11?
3/7 of the 42 people at the beach are wearing sunglasses. The number of sunglasses on the beach.
What is 18?
The simplified form of 21/56.
What is 3/8?
41/52 times 4.
What is 41/13?
A factory makes sheet of metal that are 3/10 of an inch thick. A worker at the factory makes a stack of 61 sheets. The height of the stack, in inches.
What is 183/10 inches?
OR
What is 18 3/10 inches?
3/14 of 2.
What is 3/7?
The number of bent nails in a tool box if five-thirteenths of the 26 nails are bent.
What is 10?