Mixed Numbers
Turn 2 3/9 to an improper fraction.
What is 21/9?
Compare the two fractions. Identify which one is greater:
1/2 ___ 3/4
What is 1/2 is less than 3/4?
Solve. Be sure to simplify the answer if possible.
5 - 1 1/3 = ____
What is 3 2/3?
Solve and reduce if necessary.
5/6 X 1/2 = _____
What is 5/12?
Solve for the variable. Think: What do I have to multiply 3 times to get 18? Whatever you do in the denominator must be done in the numerator.
2/3 = x/18
Solve for x.
What is x = 12?
Solve 32/8.
What is 4?
Leslie said 4/10 is equivalent to .40 because there are 40 hundredths in 4 tenths. Is Leslie correct or incorrect?
What is she is correct?
Solve. Reduce the sum if possible.
5/10 + 3/5 = ______
What is 1 1/10?
Solve. 10 is 2/5 of what number?
What is 25?
Solve for the variable. Think: What do I have to multiply 2 times to get the product of 4?
1/2 = x/4
Solve for x.
What is x = 2?
What is 83/9?
Compare 3/4 and 6/8.
What is 3/4 and 6/8 are equivalent?
Ms. Mowery mixed 2/3 can of yellow paint and 1/5 can of red paint to make orange. How much of a can of orange paint did she make?
What is 13/15 can of orange paint?
4/5X=40
What is 50?
Solve for the variable. Think: What do I have to multiply 3 times to get a product of 30?
3/4 = 30/x
Solve for x.
What is x = 40?
What is yes. Brian 197 divided by 8. He got a quotient of 12 with a remainder of 2. So, his mixed number is 12 2/8 which he simplified to 12 1/4 by dividing the numerator and denominator by 2.
Compare 1 1/2 and 1 3/9.
What is 1 1/2 is less than 1 3/9?
Ms. A had 6 cups of flour to make two cakes for her twins birthday. When she went to make the cake she there was 5/6 of flour missing. How much flour does Ms. A have of flour?
What is 5 1/6 cups of flour?
Solve.
5/8 of 160 = ____
What is 100?
Solve for the variable. Think: What do I have to multiply 25 times to get a product of 50?
x/25 = 24/50
Solve for x.
What is x = 12?
When trying to find the improper fraction for 4 1/8, Lupita did the following equation for the numerator: (8 X 4 X 1) = 32. She then wrote the improper fraction as 32/8 and simplified to 4. Is Lupita correct? Why or why not? If why not, what is the correct answer?
What is no. Instead of multiplying the number in the numerator, she needed to add the '1' to the product of 8 times 4. This would give her 33 instead of 32. So the improper fraction would be 33/8.
Mrs. A asked the class to put the following fractions in order from least to greatest: 6/10, 1/4, 7/8, 3/5
What is the order of these fractions?
What is: 1/4, 6/10 & 3/5 (same 24/40) and 7/8.
1 1/2 - 1/4 = _____
What is 1 1/4?
Find 32 is 2/8 of what number?
What is 128?
Ms. A gave the following problem:
1/3 = 3/9 = x/15 = 7/21 = 9/y
What is the number for x and what is the number for y? How did you figure this out.
What is x = 5 and y = 27? Answers will vary for the explanation.