Multiplying 1
4 ÷ 1/3
12
1/2 ÷ 1/6
3
Ken is working on a project for social studies. He has a piece of poster board that needs to be divided equally into 1/3 meter sections. The poster board is 4 meters wide. How many sections will Ken have on the poster board?
12 sections
3/4 x 5/12
5/16
3 ÷ 1/6
18
The reciprocal of 2/9.
What is 9/2?
Samantha measured the dimensions of a rectangular poster frame. It was 3/4 meters long and 1/2 meters wide. What is the area of the frame?
3/8 square meters
6/7 x 3/4 = m
m = 9/14
Denise has 4 hours to paint crafts. She would like to spend no more than 1/4 of each hour on each craft. How many crafts can she paint during that time?
16 crafts
4/9 ÷ 2/3
12/18 or 2/3
At Conestogo Public School, 1/30 of the students are on the track team. The track coach offered to buy pizza or subs for everyone on the team. Of the students for whom the coach bought food, 3/5 ordered pizza. What fraction of the students at Conestogo Public School ate pizza?
1/50 of the students
Maria ate 1/4 of a pizza. If there were 20 slices of pizza, how many slices did Maria eat?
5 slices
Find the area of a rectangle with a length of 7/10 meters and a width of 1/2 meters.
7/20 meters
Laura has a 6-foot long piece of ribbon that she wants to cut to make bows. Each piece needs to be 1/3 foot long to make one bow. How many bows will she be able to make?
18 bows
Asher has 1/2 ton of mulch to spread equally in 8 square yards. How many tons of mulch will be spread in each square yard?
1/16 ton
Jessica is dividing 3/4 grams of cashews into 5 plastic bags. What fraction of a gram of cashews will be in each plastic bag?
3/20 grams
John has 15 pounds of steak and cooked 7/10 of the steak. How much steak did he not cook?
4 1/2
James has 72 marbles and 1/6 of them are blue, 1/2 are red, and 1/3 are green. How many more red marbles are their than blue?
24
Ray has 8 pieces of wood to finish building a doghouse. How many pieces of wood will he have if he divides each piece in half?
16 pieces
Ryan has 2/3 of his science project to complete still. He wants to spend an equal amount of time on his science project over the next 3 nights. What fraction of the science project will he complete each night?
2/9
The Great Rope Company sells a rope that is 5 meters long. Juan wants to make sections that are 2/3 meters long. How many sections will Juan be able to make?
7 1/2 sections