Mixed Word Problems 1
Josef has 2 2/3 bags of popcorn. Edo has 1 ¾ bags of popcorn. How much do they have together?
4 5/12
Mrs. Campbell is making holiday treats. She needs 5 cups of flour. She has 1 1/3 cups of flour. How much more flour does she need?
3 2/3
Mrs. Campbell made cookies. One recipe calls for 3 ¼ cups of flour. The second recipe calls for 2 1/5 cups flour. How much flour did she use in all?
5 9/20
Hannah counted 21 pieces of candy. She ate 4/7 of the candy. How much candy did she eat?
12
3/8 of a garden is planted with flowers.
The rest is left empty. What is 2/3 of the empty part? Give your answer in simplest form.
5/12
Jennifer's family has to travel 78 1/5 miles to see her grandmother. They have already traveled 32 1/3 miles. How much farther do they have to go?
45 13/15
Jordyn has a jumprope that is 6 1/3 feet long. Taylor's jumprope is 4 2/3 feet long. How much longer is Jordyn's rope?
1 2/3 ft
Ben and Daniel wanted to see who was taller. They had their mom measure their heights with a yardstick. Ben was 52 3/8 inches tall, and Daniel was 48 1/3 inches tall. How much taller is Ben than Daniel?
4 1/24
Objects on Neptune weigh about 4/5 of their weight on Earth. If a dog weighs 40 pounds on Earth, how much would it weigh on Neptune?
32
2/7 of a ribbon is painted red.
The remainder of the ribbon is not painted. Find 3/4 of the remainder.
Give your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
15/28
Ms. Jones has 4 2/3 lbs of potatoes. She used 1/3 of the potatoes. How many lbs of potatoes did she use?
1 5/9
If one batch of cookies calls for 1 2/3 cups flour, how much flour will you need for 8 batches?
13 1/3
Before she went to the hairdresser, Sheila's hair was 7 1/2 inches long. When she left the salon, it was 5 1/4 inches long. How much of her hair did Sheila cut off?
2 1/4 inches
Casey has won ¾ of her hockey games. She has played 24 games. How many has she won?
18
1/3 of the audience at a school play were adults. 3/5 of the remainder were girls, and the rest were boys. There were 36 boys at the play. How many people were at the play altogether?
There were 135 people at the play.
Neo is making samples of one of her fashion designs. She has 14 yards of fabric. Each sample takes 2 ¼ yards of fabric. How many samples can she make?
6
Lilli bought 14 yards of material to make chair cushions. She cut the material into pieces 1 ¾ yards long to make each cushion. How many cushions did Lilli make?
8
A group of Boy Scouts are cutting rope to prepare for their next rock climbing activity. They have 24 ft of rope, and each Boy Scout will need 3 1/5 ft of rope for his gear. How many Boy Scouts will get their rope?
7 1/2 ft
Most people dream about ¼ of the time they sleep. How long will you probably dream tonight if you sleep 8 hours?
2 hours
In a club, 4/7 of the members are adults, and the rest are children. 1/2 of the adults and 2/5 of the children wear hats. What fraction of the total members wear hats?
16/35 of the members wear hats
A pot of chili holds 10 2/3 cups. Each portion is 3/4 cup. How many portions of chili does the big pot hold?
8
Bev wants to make 2 1/2 recipes of play clay for her daughter's birthday party. If each recipe calls for 3 2/3 teaspoons of salt, how much salt will she need?
9 1/6
Somchai had 8 3/4 kg of flour. He sold 2 1/2 kg of flour in the morning and 3 2/5 kg of flour in the afternoon. He used 1/3 of the remaining flour. How much flour did he have left?
1 9/10 kg
Ms. Campbell had 18 lbs of oranges. She gave away 5/6 of the oranges. How much did she keep for her family?
15 lbs
Mrs. Tan baked some cookies. 4/9 of the cookies were chocolate chip, 1/3 were oatmeal, and the rest were peanut butter cookies. There were 180 more chocolate chip cookies than peanut butter cookies.
How many oatmeal cookies did Mrs. Tan bake?
270 oatmeal cookies