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Find The Reciprocal
Vocabulary
Divide Whole Numbers by Fractions
Divide Fractions by Whole Numbers
Dividing Fractions Word Problems
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Find the reciprocal of 1/5
What is 5?
100

The number in a division problem that you are splitting up (the first term in the division problem)

What is the Dividend?

100
1 ÷ 1/2
What is 2?
100
1/3 ÷ 4
What is 1/12?
100

A chef had 7 potatoes. How many bowls of mashed potatoes could he make if each bowl used one-fifth of a potato?

What is 35 bowls?

200

Find the reciprocal of 8

What is 1/8?

200

The number that tells you how many parts to divide a number into (the second term in a division problem)

What is the Divisor?

200
3 ÷ 1/4
What is 12?
200
1/2 ÷ 5
What is 1/10?
200

A container of 7 metal beams weighed one-sixth of a ton. If every beam weighed the same amount, how heavy was each?

What is 1/42 tons?

300

Find the reciprocal of 2/6

What is 3?

300
The answer to a division problem
What is the Quotient?
300
5 ÷ 1/3
What is 15?
300
1/4 ÷ 7
What is 1/28?
300

A bulldozer could carry one-eighth of a ton of sand. If a park needed 3 tons of sand, how many loads would the bulldozer need to carry?

What is 24 loads?

400

Find the reciprocal of 4/16

What is 4?

400
The name of the number that is formed when the numerator and denominator in a fraction are switched
What is the reciprocal?
400

4 ÷ 2/6

What is 12?

400

4/8 ÷ 6

What is 1/12?

400

Damien ran 3/4 of a mile. Each lap around the track is 1/8 of a mile.

How many laps did Damien run?

Damien ran 6 laps

500

Find the reciprocal of 3/15

What is 5?

500

In the expression below, what do we call the numbers being divided? 

18/3

What is the dividend?

500

7 ÷ 7/8

What is 8?

500

2/9 ÷ 2

What is 1/19?

500

Hector has 5/6 of a bag of trail mix. He gives Justice 1/3 of the bag each time he fills a snack container.

How many full containers can Hector give Justice?

What is 2 1/2 containers?