Math 1
Identify the key word: Mrs. Jenkins had 24 tickets. Mckenna had 12 tickets. How many more does Mrs. Jenkins have than McKenna?
What is "how many more"?
What does this key word mean to do? "slitting up"
What is divide?
A farmer had 16 sacks of corn, to which he adds 7/9 of a sack. How many sacks of corn does he have now?
151/9
Mia mixed 6 bars of dark chocolate with 7/4 bars of white chocolate to coat strawberries. How many bars of the two chocolates did she mix in all?
31/4
Christopher filled a large pitcher with 8/3 glasses of guava juice and 4 glasses of cantaloupe juice to make a melon guava smoothie. How many glasses of juice was the pitcher filled with?
20/3
A crayon is 3 inches long. A pencil is 5/2 inches longer than the crayon. What is the length of the pencil?
11/2
Cynthia used 7 tubes of glow in the dark colors to paint the moon and the star in her bedroom and 4/5 of a tube to paint her lamp shade. How many tubes of paint did she use in all?
39/5
A meeting that Layla participated in lasted for 3 hours. If the meeting went on for 5/6 of an hour longer than scheduled, how long was the meeting planned for?
13/6
Denver’s closet is 8 feet tall while his younger brother’s is 23/4 feet tall. What is the dierence between the heights of the two closets?
9/4
Clara usually walks briskly to the farmers’ market, and it takes her 22 minutes.Today she walked leisurely, and it took 61/2 minutes. How much more time than usual did her take to reach the market today?
17/2
Susan had 4 boxes of cereal in her pantry. If she went through 7/2 boxes in a month, how many boxes of cereal remain?
1/2
Abigail has lovely, lustrous black hair that is 32 inches long. She asks the hairdresser to cut off of 1/4 the total length of her hair. How many inches does the hairdresser cut?
8
Adam needs to drive a distance of 372 miles to attend a seminar in New York. He stops over to grab a quick bite after he 1/3 covers of the total distance. How many miles has Adam driven?
124
Caleb’s vegetable garden yielded 23 pounds of bell peppers. He gave 2/3 of the yield to his neighbor, Jacob. How many pounds of bell peppers did Jacob receive?
46/3
Trinity High School printed 445 tickets for the school play in Spring. If 3/5 of the tickets were sold by January, how many tickets were sold?
267
Lilian, a teenager, earned 585 in a fortnight by babysitting for her friends and family. She spent 5/9 of the money on a laptop. How much did the laptop cost?
325
Anne buys 3 Barbie dolls to gift her little cousins. If she uses 2/3 of a roll of gift wrap to pack the dolls, what fraction of the gift wrap does she use to pack each doll?
2/9
Drake uses 9/4 cups of sugar to make 9 mugs of brownies. How much sugar is required to make one brownie?
1/4
Sean and his sister, Betty, mow 8/9 of the total area of their lawn. If they divide the chore equally, what fraction of the total area does Sean mow?
4/9
Jane eats 2/3 of a cup of cereal for breakfast every day. If the box contains a total of 24 cups, how many days will it take to finish the cereal box?
36
Lucy bought 28/3 pounds of blueberries at the farmers’ market, which she kept in 7 bags each holding an equal quantity. How many pounds of blueberries were in each bag?
4/3