Equivalent Fractions
Craig is tiling the floor of his bathroom. He wants 1/4 of the tiles to be brown. What other fractions can represent the part of the tiles that will be brown?
Any fractions that are equivalent to 1/4
Darcy bought 1/2 pound of cheese and 3/4 pound of hamburger for a barbecue. Write a comparison sentence using these fractions.
1/2 < 3/4
What is the product of 2 x 3/5? Please give your answer in simplest form.
6/5 = 1 1/5
Jack has a jar of wax that is 1/6 full. His dad gives him a second jar of wax that is 4/6 full.
Give an equation to show the amount of wax that Jack has.
1/6 + 4/6 = 5/6
Jen is making a recipe for pancakes. The recipe calls for 4/10 kilogram of flour and 12/100 kilogram of sugar. If Jen measures correctly, what is the decimal for the amount of flour and sugar that Jen will have?
0.52
In the school chorus, 2/12 of the students are fourth graders. In simplest form, what fraction of the students in the school chorus are fourth graders?
1/6
Fill in the boxes to make a chain of equivalent fractions-
1/2 = _ /10 = _ / 100
2/3 = _ /9 = _ / 12
3/4 = _ /8 = _ /100
5, 50
6, 8
6, 75
Theo is comparing shark lengths. He learned that a dogfish shark is 3/5 meter long. A blue shark is 5 times as long as a dogfish shark. What is the length of a blue shark?
15/5 = 3 meters long
Henry ate 3/8 of a sandwich. Keith ate 4/8 of the same sandwich. How much more of the sandwich did Keith eat than Henry?
1/8 more
Which inequalities are true?
a. 0.21 < 0.27
b. 0.4 > 0.45
c. $3.21 > $0.20
d. 1.9 < 1.90
e. 6.2 > 6.02
A
C
E
Tell whether the fractions are equivalent or not equivalent
3/12 ____ 1/4
3/5 ____ 9/10
5/6 ____ 10/12
6/10 _____ 5/8
equal
not equal
equal
not equal
Theo has 2/3 yard of blue fabric and and 3/4 yard of red fabric. He wants to compare the amounts of blue and red fabric that he has.
2/3 < 3/4
Mr. Combs uses 5/8 a tank of gas to drive to and from his job. How many tanks of gas does Mr. Combs use in 5 weeks?
Mr. Combs will use 125/8 or 15 5/8 tanks of gas.
Ivan biked 1 2/3 hours on Monday, 2 1/3 hours on Tuesday and 2 2/3 hours on Wednesday. What is the total number of hours Ivan spent biking?
Ivan spent 6 2/3 hours biking.
Gene lives 0.6 mile from school. Kate lives 0.51 mile from school. Who lives closer? What are the decimals written as a fraction?
Kate, 6/10 and 51/100
Geoff is making gift bags for his friends. There are stickers in 1/4 of the gift bags. If Geoff makes 12 gift bags, how may will contain stickers.
3
Suiki rode her bike 4/5 mile. Claire rode her bike 1/3 of a mile. Compare how far they rode their bikes.
4/5 > 1/3
How would you write 4 x 2/5 as a product of a whole number and a unit fraction?
8 x 1/5
Ashton went shopping for 3 1/4 hours Saturday morning. That afternoon she went back out shopping again. She shopped for a total of 9 1/2 hours. How long did Ashton shop that afternoon?
Ashton shopped 6 1/4 hours that afternoon.
5/10 + 18/100 = Give your answer as a decimal
68/100 = 0.68
Frank has two same sized rectangles divided into the same number of equal parts. One rectangle has 3/4 of the parts shaded, and the other has 1/3 shaded.
Into how many parts could each rectangle be divided.
12 because 12 is a common multiple of 3 and 4.
Ramon is having some friends over after a basketball game. Ramon's job is to make vegetable dip. The ingredients are given.
3/4 cup parsley
1/3 cup dill
6/8 cup scallions
5/8 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/12 cup lemon juice
Order the fractions from least to greatest.
1/12, 1/3, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 6/8
Sara is making 4 batches of granola bars. She adds 7/8 cup of peanuts to each batch. Her measuring cup holds 1/8 cup. How many times must Sara measure 1/8 cup of peanuts to have enough for the granola bars?
4 x 7/8 = 28/8
Sara will need to measure 1/8 cup 28 times.
During March, it rained 4 5/8 inches. During January, it rained 3 4/8 inches. So far for the year, it has rained 12 3/8 inches. How many inches of rain fell in February?
4 2/8 inches of rain fell in February.
Ryan sold a jigsaw puzzle at a yard sale for three dollars and five cents. List 3 ways to represent this number.
$3.05
3.05
3 5/100