Twelve children on a basketball team will share 5 chocolate bars. What fraction of a chocolate bar will each child get to eat?
10/24
It takes 2 ⅓ yards of denim to make one pair of jeans. How many yards would it take to make 5 pairs of jeans?
11 ⅔
Mr. Jordan started his trip home with ¾ of a tank of gas. When he arrived home, he had ⅛ of a tank of gas. How much gas did he use during his trip?
⅝
There is of a bag of popcorn. If 3 people equally distribute the bag, how much of the bag will each person receive?
⅙
A fruit farm is kilometers wide. Its length is
times as long as it is wide. What is the area of the farm?
16 ½ km
Fabian and his three friends are participating in a relay race, the total length of the race is 1/2 of a mile. How far will each person run?
1/8 of a mile
Matt is filling containers of rice. Each container holds 1/4 of a kilogram of rice.
If Matt has 7 kilograms of rice, how many containers can he fill?
28 containers
Billy has 1/4 of a kilogram of trail mix. He wants to share it equally between himself three friends.
How much trail mix would they each get?
1/16 of a kilogram
The penguin nursery is open two times a day: 2/3 hour at noon and 5/12 hour in the afternoon. How much time is the penguin nursery open every day?
1 ¹⁄₁₂ hours
Tommy will spend 1/5 of his time this weekend studying for his 4 final exams.
What fraction of the weekend will he spend studying for each of his 4 exams if he spends the same amount of time studying for each exam?
1/20
Astronaut Peggy Whitson has spent 377 days in space, the most for any woman. How many weeks is this?
53 and 6/7 weeks
Mrs. Amy has 5 bunches of grapes, which she is serving as a snack to a group of children. Each serving is 1/4 of a bunch.
How many children can get a serving of grapes as a snack?
20 children
Jade is making a square birthday card. She is going to put a ribbon border on each of the 4 equal sides.
Jade has a piece of ribbon that is 33 inches long. If she uses all of the ribbon, how many inches of ribbon can Jade put on each equal side?
8 ¼ inches
Ms. Andrews is whipping up three pizzas for family night and plans to use of a pound 1/3 of shredded cheese. How much cheese did she sprinkle on each pizza?
1/9 of a pound
Sally follows her grandmom’s recipe and makes a batch of 15 cupcakes. She requires of a 1/3 pack of sugar per batch. How much sugar is needed for each cupcake?
1/45 of a pack
Jasper’s lawn is ¾ of an acre in size. The fertilizer bag states that 5 ½ bags are required for 1 acre. How many bags does Jasper need to fertilize his lawn?
4 ⅛
Some students in Ms. Jackson’s class collected 24 books for a book drive. The 8 students each collected an equal number of books. What equation would you use to solve this problem?
24 ÷ 8 = 24/8 = 3 books each
Two kinds of fish can be found in a small tank that is 5⅐ feet long. The blue fish is 3/15 feet long and the orange fish is 7/10 feet long. How much longer is the orange fish?
A small tank contains liters of water. The capacity of a large tank is 6 times more than the small tank. What’s the capacity of the large tank?
32 liters
Three friends shared a pizza. Oliver ate 1/4 of the pizza, Leon ate 1/6 of the pizza, and Ben ate 1/3 of the pizza. How much of the pizza is left?
1/4 is left
Elaine is making 2 batches of cupcakes. Each batch calls for 5/6 cups of sugar. Elaine has 19/6 cups of sugar in the cupboard. How much sugar will Elaine have left after making the cupcakes? Enter the answer as a fraction.
1 ½ cups will be left
George mowed 1/5 of the yard. Summer mowed some too. If 2/3 of the yard is mowed after they finished, how much did Summer mow?
7/15
Mary spent 1/2 of her money on pens, 1/3 of her money on pencils, and 1/8 of her money on markers. What fraction of her money is left?
1/24
Avery is making 2 batches of cookies. Each batch calls for 3/2 cups of flour. Avery has 19/5 cups of flour in the cupboard. How much flour will Avery have left after making the cookies?
4/5 cups
Two families, the Smiths and the Taylors, go to a restaurant for a meal. At the end of the night, when they pay their $150 bill, they decide to split the bill equally between the two families. Mr Smith pays for his family's half of the bill. The Taylor family, however, decide to split their half of the bill between each of their family members, each member paying ⅓ of their family's bill.
How much will the Smiths pay?
How much will each member of the Taylor family pay?
Smiths will pay $75
Each member of the Taylors will pay $25