dividing fractions
1/8 / 5 =
1/40
Two students share 3 granola bars equally. How many granola bars does each student get?
1 1/2 bars
Joe made 3 sandwiches. He cuts each sandwich into halves. How many sandwich haves does he have?
3 / 1/2
Caleb and two friends are sharing 1/2 quart of milk equally. What fraction of a quart of milk does each of the friends get?
1/6 quart
Allison separates 23 stickers into 4 equal parts. How many stickers does she have left over?
3 stickers
Nine boys share 3 pizzas equally. What fraction of pizza each each boy get?
1/3 of a pizza.
Two friends share 1/4 gallon of lemonade equally. What fraction of the gallon of lemonade does each friend get?
1/4 / 2
Jesse is making a pitcher of fruit smoothies that contains 3 cups of orange juice. His measuring cup only holds 1/4 cup. How many times will Jesse need to fill the measuring cup to get the 3 cups of orange juice?
12 times
A concert sold out for 12 performances. Altogether, 8,208 tickets were sold. How many tickets were sold for each performance?
684 tickets
16 / 1/5 =
80
2 1/2 bars
Riley has a piece of wire that is 4 yards long. He cuts it into pieces that are 1/2 yard long. How many pieces of wire does Riley have?
4 / 1/2
Aidan buys one package each of 2-pound, 3-pound, and 4-pound packages of ground turkey to make turkey burgers. How many 1/3-pound turkey burgers can he make?
27 turkey burgers
Juliette spends $6.12 at the store. Morgan spends 3 times as much as Juliette. Jonah spends $4.29 more than Morgan. How much money does Jonah spend?
$22.65
1/8 / 12 =
1/96
6 girls share 4 sandwiches equally. What fraction of a sandwich does each girl get?
1/3 of a sandwich
3 / 1/10
Mrs. Lee has 12 pounds of modeling clay. She divides the clay into 1/2-pound blocks. If Mrs. Lee sets aside 6 of the blocks and gives the rest to the students in her art class, how many 1/2-pound blocks of clay does Mrs. Lee give to her class?
18 blocks that are 1/2-pound each
Taylor is building doghouses to sell. Each doghouse requires 3 full sheets of plywood which Taylor cuts into new shapes. The plywood is shipped in bundles of 14 sheets. How many doghouses can Taylor make from 12 bundles of plywood?
56 doghouses
Brianna has a sheet of paper that is 6 feet long. She cuts the length of paper into sixths and then cuts the length of each of these 1/6 pieces into thirds. How many pieces does she have? How many inches long is each piece?
18 pieces
4 inches
Addie brought 9 pounds of oranges and 7 pounds of cherries to make fruit salad for a fundraiser. She wants to package an equal amount of fruit salad into each of 12 containers. How much fruit salad should Addison put in each container?
1 1/3 pounds
Rose reads 1/3 of a book every day. Victoria reads 1/4 of a book every day. They each need to read 4 books for class. How long would it take each to read 4 books?
Rose = 12 days
Victoria = 16 days
Tony and Mary are working on a craft project. Mary has 3 yards of ribbon and Tony has 4 yards of ribbon. They cut all the ribbon into pieces that are 1/4 yard long. How many pieces of ribbon do they have?
28 pieces
Elizabeth uses 23.25 ounces of granola and 10.5 ounces of raising for 15 servings of trail mix. If each serving contains the same amount of trail mix, how much trail mix is in each serving?
2.25 ounces