Fraction word problems - page 17 of 185
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- Add, sub and div
Find the value of (52 - 14 - 8 - 7)/(15 - 4 * 2) Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
- Tim had
Tim had $360. He spent 1/4 on CD's and 2/3 of the remainder on snacks. What was left in his piggy bank?
- The painter
Alex had 5/6 liter of white paint. He used 1/8 of it to paint the walls and 2/5 of the remaining to paint the fence. How much paint is left?
- Chicken 7
Each serving uses 2/3 of a pound of chicken. Li Sai has 4 1/2 pounds of chicken. How many servings can Li Sai make if they use all the chicken?
- Mariana
Mariana wants to put 6 3/4 feet of border across the top of a wall. She has 3 6/7 feet of border. What fraction of the project can she complete?
- Cereals
Cole and Carl share an 18-ounce box of cereal. By the end of the week, Cole has eaten 1/6 of the box, and Carl has eaten 2/3 of the box of cereal. How many ounces are left in the box?
- Marcellus
Marcellus has two bottles of ketchup that are the same size. One bottle is 1/5 full, and the other bottle is 1/2 full. Can all the ketchup fit into one bottle without the ketchup overflowing?
- Frank's
Frank's mom baked several pies and cut them, so each slice is 1/16 of a pie. Frank plans to eat 8 5/8 pies. How many slices will frank eat?
- Peter 14
Peter bought ¼ kg, and Paolo bought 1 ½ kg of bananas. How much did they pay if each kilo costs Php 24.00?
- Shona and juice
A jug contains 5 1/2 cups of juice. Shona pours 5/6 of a cup into each of the 5 glasses and 3/4 of a cup into one glass. How much is left in the jug?
- A night
A night bus left town by 10:30. It took five and half hours to reach Makurdi and another four and half hours to reach Enugu. At what time did it arrive?
- Lowest terms
What is the sum if the product of 1 3/4 and 2 1/6 is added to the quotient of 1/3 and 8 4/5? Write the solution as a mixed number or a fraction in the lowest terms.
- Apple in a basket
Cristan put 8/20 kg of apple into a basket. Cris put 7/20 kg of oranges, and Vlad placed 4/20 kg of mangoes into the same basket. How many kilograms of fruits were put inside the basket?
- Katy bought
Katy bought 4/5 kg of oranges, 2 1/2 kg of bananas, and 1 1/2 kg of apples every day. How many kilograms of fruit did she buy each day?
- Gemma 2
Gemma works in a bakery. She is making up family boxes of bakery goods. Each box needs 3 loaves of bread—three loaves in a box. If Gemma has 20 loaves of bread: a) How many family boxes can she make? b) How many loaves of bread are left over?
- Mother 16
Mother cooks food in 1 3/4 hours and prepares the children's snack in 4/6 of an hour. How much longer does she cook the food than prepare the children's snacks?
- 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?
- Shandra
Shandra saved $24. She lends 1/3 of her savings to her brother. Shandra wants to buy an $18 bracelet. Will she have enough money to purchase the bracelet? Explain
- Evaluate expression 10
Evaluate expression: (a-b)+c if a=7/10, b=3/5, and c=-1.9. Write your answer as a mixed number in simplest form.
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