Operations with Decimals
Dividing Fractions
GCF/LCM
Sample PE ?'s
100

What is the sum of 10.4 and 18.34

What is 28.74

100

2/3 divided by 2.


2/6 or 1/3

100


An art teacher has two pieces of ribbon measuring 48 cm and 72 cm. She wants to cut both ribbons into smaller pieces of equal length with no ribbon left over. What is the greatest possible length of each piece?


  • A. 144 cm
  • B. 12 cm
  • C. 6 cm
  • D. 24 cm


24 d

100

Maria is preparing prize bags for a school event. She has 60 pencils and 84 erasers. She wants to make the greatest possible number of identical prize bags using all of the pencils and erasers. What is the greatest number of prize bags Maria can make? How many pencils will be in each bag? How many erasers will be in each bag?

GCF = 12

5 pencils

7 erasers

200

4.87 X 1.6

What is 7.792

200

8 divided by 1/2

What is 16

200

Maya has 24 apples and 36 oranges. She wants to make identical fruit baskets using all the fruit with none left over. What is the greatest number of baskets she can make, and how many of each fruit will be in each basket?

GCF = 12

apples 2

oranges 3

200

Brooklin  has 4 3/4 cups of oatmeal. She is dividing the oatmeal into 1/3 cup servings.


Brooklyn can make ____ full servings. She will have _____ oatmeal left over.

14

1/4 serving left

300

2,480 divided by 40

What is 62

300

4/7 divided by 2/3


12/14 or 6/7

300

Least Common Multiple of

9 and 6

18

300

Elena is tracking her reading time over the weekend. She sets a goal to read for a total of 6.5 hours on Saturday and Sunday.The table below shows the number of hours Elena reads each day.

Day                    Hours Read  

Saturday                   3.8

Sunday                   2.85 

Complete the statement by selecting the correct options.

Elena [did / did not] reach her goal, because she read [more / less] hours than 6.5.

Elena did reach her goal, because she read more hours than 6.5.

Explanation:

  • Total hours read: $3.8 + 2.85 = 6.65\text{ hours}$

  • Comparison to goal: $6.65 > 6.5$ (She read 0.15 hours more than her goal).

400

What is the value of the expression 250.8 divided by .50?

What is 501.6

400

Reagan has 2 3/4 yards of ribbon. Each bow needs 3/8 yards of ribbon. How many ribbons can she make?

What is 7 1/3

400

What is the GCF of 10,30,45

What is 5

400

The garden club is preparing seedling trays for their annual plant sale. They plan to put 15 seedlings in each tray. They want to beat last year's sale of 850 seedlings. Their goal this year is to sell 1,120 seedlings.

Can the amount of seedlings they want to sell this year be divided evenly among the trays if they put 15 seedlings in each tray and do not want any partially filled trays? If not, how many seedlings will be left over?

No. 1,120/15 = 74 with 10 left over

500

Jason has $58.47 on his credit card and $26.30 in cash. 

How much more money is on Jason's credit card than in cash?

What is $32.17

500

3 1/2 divided by 2/5

35/4 or 8 3/4

500

Hot dog buns come in packages of 8, while hot dog patties come in packages of 12. What is the smallest number of packages of each you must buy to have an equal number of buns and patties?

LCM 24

Bun packages 3

Patty packages 2

500

Leo is cutting a 3/4 yard piece of ribbon into equal strips to make decorative bows. Each bow requires 1/8 yard of ribbon.

Use the number line below to find how many bows Leo can make.

<---|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|--->    0      1/4             1/2             3/4              1

3/4 divided 1/8 = 6 bows