+/- Fractions
Mañuela bought 11/12 yard of polka dot fabric and 7 /9 yard of flowered fabric. Which fabric did she buy more of?
Polka Dot Fabric
Round to the nearest whole. 523.65
524
84 X 19
1, 596
Rebecca has 21 math problems to solve. She has solved 2/7 of them. How many problems has she solved?
6 Problems
There are 5,280 feet in a mile. There are 3 feet in a yard. How many yards are there in a mile?
1,760 Yards
Mrs. Spencer’s class is signing up to play sports. 8 /26 of the students want to play soccer and 12 /26 want to play basketball. The rest of the students want to play baseball. What fraction of the students wants to play baseball?
6/26 of the students
Round to the nearest tenth: 75.391
75.4
Every month, Paolo earns $40 for walking his neighbor’s dog after school. How much does he earn from this job in one year?
$480
5/16 X 2/25
1/40
A carousel factory has 1,252 carousel horses. 48 horses are placed on each carousel. How many carousels can the factory build? How many horses will be left over?
26 carousels with 4 horses left over
Last year my elm tree was 8 5/6 feet tall. This year it is 101 /12feet tall. How much did it grow in one year?
1 1/4 feet
4,000- 2,197.83
1,802.17
Kamini needs to know the area of her yard so that she can buy the right amount of grass seed. The yard is 26 feet by 19 feet. What is the area of Kamini’s yard in square feet?
494 Square Feet
12 X 2 3/4
33
A Ferris wheel holds 48 people. There are 823 people with tickets to ride the Ferris wheel. How many times will the Ferris wheel need to be run to give everyone a ride?
18 times
Luis rode his bicycle 2 3 /10 miles before lunch. He rode 1 1 /4 miles after lunch. How far did Luis ride altogether?
3 11/20 Miles
Yoshi saved $1,238.46 for a vacation in Mexico. While in Mexico, she spent $975. What amount of money did Yoshi not spend?
$263.46
Simon sold bottles of water at the marathon on Saturday for $0.75 per bottle. He sold 43 bottles. How much money did he earn?
$32.25
The Patel family went apple picking. The number of red apples they picked was 2 2/9 times the number of green apples they picked. If they picked 45 green apples, how many red apples did they pick?
100 Red Apples
Lauren has 9.9 meters of ribbon. She is cutting it into 100 equal pieces. How long would each piece of ribbon be?
0.099 meters long
7 8/9 + 9 7/8
17 55/72
Write the following number in standard form:
two hundred ten thousand, fifty and nineteen hundredths
210,050.19
An elephant eats about 2,500 pounds of food in 10 days. About how much food does an elephant eat in 1,000 days?
250,000 Pounds
Tuesday at the zoo, 5 /12 of the visitors were adults. Of these adults, 3 /10 were men. What fraction of the people who visited the zoo on Tuesday were men?
1/8
This year Martin earned $1,615 mowing lawns, shoveling driveways, and doing yard work. This is 19 times as much as he earned last year. How much did Martin earn last year?
$85