Hmmm... do I multiply or divide?
Four friends share 6 sheets of poster board equally. How many sheets of poster board does each friend get?
1 1/2 sheets
Sean divides 8 cups of granola into 1/4 servings. How many servings of granola does he have?
32
Two friends share 1/2 of a pineapple equally. What fraction of a whole pineapple does each friend get?
1/4 of a pineapple
Four students share 20 pieces of drawing paper equally. How many pages does each student get?
5 pages
58.7 x .43
25.241
John bought 9 pounds of turkey at the grocery store. He cooked 4/5 of the turkey. How many pounds did he cook?
7 1/5 pounds
Sixty students were scheduled to attend a field trip. 1/12 of the students were sick and could not attend. How many students could not attend?
5 students
Amy has a board that is four feet long. He cuts the board into pieces that are each 1/6 foot long. How many pieces does Amy have?
24 pieces
Sixteen giant cookies are shared among 12 students. How much did each student receive?
1 1/3 of a cookie
104.6 - 58.93 =
45.67
During flu season, only 1/6 of the students were absent at school. 3/5 of those students were absent for more than 3 days. How many were absent for more than 3 days?
1/10 of the students
Tom bought 48 new trading cards. Three-fourths of the cards are baseball cards. How many baseball cards did he buy?
36 baseball cards
Aaron runs 8 miles each morning. On Saturday, he was only able to run 2/3 of the distance he normally runs. How far did he run on Saturday?
5 1/3 miles
Shawna has 3 adults and 2 children coming over. She is going to serve 2 small apple pies. If she plans to give each person, including herself, an equal amount of pie, how much pie will each person get?
1/3 of a pie
One week a company filled 546 boxes with pencils. Each box held 38 pencils. How many pencils did the company pack in boxes that week?
20, 748 pencils
A restaurant served 18 pounds of beef during the dinner rush. 4/5 of the beef was served with another type of meat. How much beef was served with another type of meat?
14 2/5 pounds
Joe has 12 pounds of modeling clay. He divides the clay into 1/2 pound blocks. If Joe sets aside 6 of the blocks and uses the rest of the blocks, how many blocks does he use?
18 blocks
1/10 of the school's students were scheduled to attend a field trip. 1/2 of those students were sick and could not attend. What fraction of the students DID ATTEND the field trip?
19/20 of the students attended
Quinn bought 9 pounds of oranges and 7 pounds of cherries to make fruit salad for a fundraiser. She wants to package an equal amount of fruit salad into each of 12 containers. How much fruit salad should be put in each container?
1 1/3 pounds of fruit
Joe wrote 3 x 47 as 3 x 40 + 3 x 7. What property did he use to rewrite the expression?
Distributive property
Tim has a piece of string that is 125 inches long. For a science experiment, he divides the string equally among 8 groups of students. How much string will each group get?
15 5/8 of an inch
Tim bought 1/2 pound of ham at the grocery store and 1/4 pound of turkey. He cook 1/3 of the meat for a picnic. How much meat did he cook?
1/4 of the meat
Sam bought 6 pineapples at the grocery store and ate 1/3 of the pineapples. Rob bought 5 pineapples at the grocery store and at 1/2 of the pineapples he bought. Who ate more?
Rob - he ate 2 1/2 pineapples, while Sam ate 2 pineapples.
Six students share 15 mini blueberry muffins equally and eight students share 20 mini apple muffins equally. Kara is in both groups of students. What is the total number of muffins she gets?
5 muffins
17632 / 19 =
928