Multiply Whole Number and Fraction
Fraction Word Problems
Multiply Fractions
Area and Perimeter
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Ms. Johnson made 36 cupcakes for her 5th-grade class. Some of the cupcakes were chocolate, and some were strawberry. If 23 of the cupcakes were chocolate, how many strawberry cupcakes were there?
Answer: 13
100
Zoey and KaMya shared a pie. There were six slices. Zoey ate 2/6 of the pie.
How much pie did KaMya eat?
Answer 4/6
200
Jayceon is making doughnuts. If the recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar, and each cup of sugar weighs 23 pounds, how many pounds of sugar did he use?
Answer 1 1/3
200
Ray and Lynn are getting some of their father’s sheep. Ray is getting 14/21 of the sheep. What fraction of sheep is Lynn getting?
answer: 7/12
300
Ms. Johnson brought cookies to her class. Each student can eat 1/4 of a bag of cookies. She has 24 students in her class. How many bags of cookies does Ms. Johnson need to bring?
Answer 6
300
Jase and four friends each ate a half of a pizza.
In fraction form how many whole pizzas did they consume all together?
Answer 5/2
300
Without multiplying, tell which product is larger and why.
5 × 1/3 or 5 × 2/3
5 × 2/3 because 1/3 is less than 2/3.
300
The width of a rectangle is 3/5 of a foot and the length is 8 feet. What is the area?
Answer: 4 4/5 ft2
400
At a party, there are 8 children. Each child will eat 3/12 of a pizza. How many pizzas are needed for the party?
Answer: 2 pizzas
400
AJ and nine of his teammates each ate a half of a pizza, how many whole pizzas did they consume all together?
5
400
Without multiplying, tell which product is smaller and why.
6 × 3/4 or 3 × 3/4
3 × 3/4 because 3 is less than 6.
400
You are going to tile your bathroom floor which is rectangular in shape. You lay 28 tiles down where each tile is 1.5 square feet. What is the area of the floor?
42 square feet
500
Cameron is making quarter pound hamburgers for his friends at a cookout. How much hamburger meat will he need in all to make the hamburgers for himself and his five friends?
6/4 pounds, or 1 2/4 pounds, or 1 1/2 pounds
500
This visual fraction model represents the multiplication problem 4 × 2/3. Which of these visual fraction models results in the same product?
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Answer
500
Without multiplying, tell which product is larger and why.
6 × 1/2 or 4 × 1/2
6 × 1/2 because 6 is greater than 4.
500
You removed a rectangular concrete pad from your backyard and are now trying to sod it. You lay down 20 pieces of sod where each one was 2.5 square feet. What is the area of the area you are resoding?
50 square feet