Multiply/Divide Fractions #1
Jamar has a 8 ft. long wooden board that he needs to cut into pieces for his treehouse. If the boards he needs to cut are 1/6 of a foot long, how many boards can he get out of what he has?
What is 48 pieces.
Jason has 1/2 of a pizza and wants to share it equally among 4 people. How much of a pizza will each person get?
What is 1/8
4/5 times 1/3
What is 4/15
To multiply two fractions together you follow this process
What is multiply the numerators together and multiply the denominators together
6 divided by 1/4
What is 24
At summer camp, the field hockey game is 1/4 hours. The counselors have set aside 4 hrs for games to be played. How many games can be played in that time?
What is 16 games.
Tina is using ribbon to make bows. If Tina needs 1/5 of a foot of ribbon to make each bow and she has 2 feet of ribbon, how many bows can she make?
What is 10.
1/8 divided by 2
What is 1/16.
Change 4 and 3/4 to an improper fraction.
What is 19/4
2/3 divided by 4
What is 2/12 (50 extra points if you put 1/6)
JJ is spending 3/4 of his allowance at the mall. Of the money spent at the mall, 1/2 is spent on new earphones. What part of his allowance did he spend on earphone?
What is 3/8 of his money.
Three friends buy a pack of donuts. There are 12 donuts in the package and each friend will receive 1/3 of the package. How many donuts will each friend receive?
What is 4
To change 4 into a fraction you would follow this process.
What is put a one below the 4
AJ is organizing his movie collection. He discovers that 5/8 of his movies are action movies. If he has 46 movies, about how many are action movies?
What is about 30 movies.
There are 95 students at Maxwell Elementary school. 4/5 of them attend the behavior reward party at the end of the school year. How many students get to attend the party?
What is 76
4 divided by 1/5
What is 20
To divide fractions you follow this process
What is keep the first fraction, change the sign to multiply, flip the second fraction over.
5/6 X 3/5
What is 15/30 (50 extra points if you put 1/2)
A bag contains 50 pieces of candy. If 2/5 of the pieces are red, how many pieces are NOT red?
What is 30 pieces.
Mr. Wilson bought a bag of bird seed and put 1/2 of it in his bird feeder. The other half he split evenly among his 4 pet birds. How much bird seed to each of his pet birds receive?
What is 1/8
Change 36/5 into a mixed number.
What is 7 and 1/5