Word Problems 1
Mia has 1/3 of a chocolate bar. She wants to share it equally among 4 friends. How much chocolate will each friend get?
1/12
A baker has 5 cakes and serves slices of 1/3 cake to each customer. How many customers can be served?
15
A 10-pound sack of flour is divided into bags, each holding 1/8 pound. How many bags are filled?
80
A baker has 1/5 of a cake left and wants to divide it among 4 people. How much cake will each person get?
1/20
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A chef has 1/5 of a cup of sugar and needs to divide it into 2 bowls. How much sugar will each bowl get?
1/10
A bottle holds 1/2 of a gallon of juice. If this juice is poured equally into 3 glasses, how much juice does each glass hold?
1/6
A tub of ice cream weighing 7 pounds is served in portions of 1/3 pound each. How many servings are made?
21
An apple is cut into slices that are 1/8 of the apple. Each slice is shared equally among 9 people. What fraction of the whole apple does each person get per slice?
1/72
What do you call the numbers at the top and bottom of the fraction line
numerator - top
denominator - bottom
A 1/6 meter-long rope is cut into 3 equal pieces. How long is each piece?
1/18
There are 9 pounds of flour, and each bag holds 1/5 pound. How many bags can be filled?
45
A 12-meter rope is cut into sections, each 1/4 meter long. How many sections are there?
48
A painter uses 1/10 of a gallon of paint for each fence panel. If 5 panels are painted, how much paint is used in total?
1/50
KCF
A 6-liter jug of water is poured into containers, each holding 1/2 of a liter. How many containers can be filled?
12
A ribbon is 1/8 of a yard long. It is cut into 2 equal pieces. How long is each piece?
1/16
A pie is cut into 1/5 size slices. If each slice is shared equally among 2 people, how much of the pie does each person get?
1/10
A 15-gallon water tank is filled using a jug that holds 1/3 How many times must the jug be filled to fill the tank?
45
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A shelf is 8 feet long. Each book takes up 1/4 foot of space. How many books can fit on the shelf?
32
Alex has 1/2 of a pizza and needs to share it equally among 15 friends. How much pizza will each friend get?
1/30
A gardener has 9 pounds of seeds and packs them into bags, each holding 1/6 pound. How many bags are packed?
54
A box holds 10 candles, each measuring 1/9 of a foot. If the candles are arranged end to end, how many candles fit in a 10-foot space?
90
write your own fraction word problem and solve
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