Fractions I
Three pizzas are shared equally among 12 people. What fraction of a pizza will each person get?
¼
Richard walked 15.74 miles and James walked 12.98 miles. How many more miles did Richard walk than James?
2.76 miles
A sports store has 468 golf balls. They will be put into boxes that hold 18 balls each. What is the minimum number of boxes needed for all of the golf balls?
26
Joan went to the bookstore.
At this bookstore, 3/4 of the books are fiction.
Of the fiction books, 1/3 are mystery books.
What fraction of the books at the bookstore are mystery fiction books?
1/4
A rectangular room is 12 ½ feet long and 10 ⅓ feet wide. What is the area of the room?
129 ⅙ square feet
After basketball practice, 8 players equally shared 3 large bottles of water. What fraction of a bottle did each player get?
3/8
Mia wants to buy 3 notebooks for $1.29 each. Which expression shows how to find the total cost?
3 × 1.29
A supermarket has 238 large boxes of cereal. Each large box holds 32 small bags of cereal. How many small bags of cereal are in the supermarket?
7,616 bags
Trisha bought a carton of orange juice. She drank ⅓ of the carton on Monday and 5/12 of the carton on Tuesday. What fraction of the carton did Trisha drink?
¾
A rope that is 6 meters long will be cut into 24 pieces that are all of the same length. What will be the length of each piece, in centimeters?
(Note: 100 centimeters = 1 meter)
25 centimeters
Three friends equally share ½ of a pizza. How much of the pizza does each friend get?
1/6
Regina has 3 bags of marbles. There are 25 marbles in each bag. She wants to put an equal number of marbles into 5 bags. Which expression would show how many marbles can go in each bag?
(25 × 3) ÷ 5
Mr. Edward bought a 50-pound bag of flour for his bakery. It is equally divided among 6 days. How much flour was used per day?
8 ⅓ pounds
Eight gardeners equally share ½ of a pile of pine needles. What fraction of the pile does each gardener receive?
1/16
The length of a shoe is 25 centimeters. How long is the shoe in meters?
(Note: 1 meter = 100 centimeters)
0.25 meters
A school painted 1/2 of a wall in its gym with 3 colors. Each color takes up the same amount of space on the wall. What fraction of the wall does each color occupy?
1/6
Fred bought a shirt and a wallet for a total of $34.26 before tax. The price of the wallet was $15 less than the price of the shirt. What was the price of the shirt?
$24.63
t+w=$34.26
w=t-15
t+t-15=$34.26
A business has 384 cases of water. There are 42 bottles of water in each case. How many bottles of water does the business have?
16,128 bottles
Mr. Wilson bought a bag of birdseed and put half of it in his bird feeder. He split the other half equally among his 4 pet birds. How much of the bag did each pet bird get?
⅛ bag
Mr. Parker is graphing a quadrilateral. He wants the quadrilateral to be a trapezoid. He has already graphed vertices at (1, 1), (3, 3), and (5, 3). Which choice is a point that could be the 4th vertex?
(5, 1)
Tracie ran a total of 5 ¾ miles on Saturday and Sunday. She ran 1 ⅝ miles on Saturday. How many miles did Tracie run on Sunday?
4 ⅛
Alyssa walked 1.34 fewer miles than Emily. Alyssa walked 2.56 miles. How many miles did Emily walk?
3.9 miles
A factory delivered 284 boxes of books to stores. There are 20 books in each box. How many books did the factory deliver?
5,680 books
Which expression matches the words “eight less than the product of twelve and four”?
(12 × 4) – 8
A pattern of ordered pairs is shown.
(0, 1), (2, 4), (4, 7), (6, 10)
The pattern continues. What is the eighth ordered pair in the pattern?
(14, 22)