Division + length - practice problems
Number of problems found: 331
- Divide 46
Divide 1111 in the ratio of 8:3 . - A rope
A 75m piece of rope needs to be cut in a ratio of 1:4. What is the length of each piece? - Handmade scarves
Chelsea is sewing handmade scarves for her sisters and friends. She has 4 ⅚ yards of material and needs ⅞ of a yard for each scarf. How many scarves can she make with the existing material? - A picture crop
Mr. Paul has a picture that measures 4 by 12 inches. It must be reduced so that the longest side measures 4 inches to fit in the school newspaper. Find the length of the shorter side of the picture once it has been reduced.
- The row
The row of shrubs will be 20 feet long. Maya planted three sets of shrubs. One shrub needs to be 7 1/2 feet from the other shrub. How can you use fractions to show how far apart each shrub is from each other? - A string A string 2 4/5 m long is cut into 6 pieces. How long is each piece?
- The bedroom
The area of the rectangular bedroom is 136 5/8 square feet. If its width is 12 3/4 feet, find its length in simplest form. - A tree
A tree grows 1 3/4 ft per year. How long will it take the tree to grow from a height of 2 1/4 feet to a height of 37 feet? - Seeds 6
In his garden, Thomas plants carrot seeds 1/4 inch deep and bean seeds 7/8 inch deep. What expression can be used to find how much deeper Trey planted the bean seeds than the carrot seeds?
- Miss Susan
Miss Susan cuts a board that is 16 feet long into 3 equal pieces. Then realizes that the pieces she cut each need to be 1 and 1/4 feet longer. How long does each piece of board need to be? - Comparing by height Ira is 1 2/5 m tall. Her mother is 4/5 m as tall as Ira. How many times is Ira's mother taller than her?
- Bookshelf 3
How many 1/35-inch thick books can fit on a 1 4/12-inch long bookshelf? - Sona takes
Sona takes 4/5 of a mile every day. What part of her walk has she completed after walking 3/5 miles? - Bird houses
Lucy is in charge of a nature camp this summer. She will be making birdhouses with her campers. She has 5 boards that are each a meter long. Each birdhouse requires 1/4 meter of wood. How many birdhouses can she make out of her wood?
- Josiah Josiah is building a birdhouse and has a piece of wood that is 18 feet long. He needs 1 7/8 foot long pieces. How many smaller pieces can he cut?
- Rhara Rhara must cut a string of 6 2/3 meters into lengths of 1/3 meters. How many pieces of string will she have?
- Tie rope Fred was learning to tie rope. He had 5 1/2 feet of rope. If each knot took up 4/5 of a foot of rope, how many knots could he make?
- An electrician 5
An electrician has 4.1 meters of wire. How many strips 7/10 m long can he cut? - A shelf A shelf is 40 3/4 cm long. Books are 1 9/10 cm wide. How many books will fit on this shelf?
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