The document contains 12 word problems involving fractions. The problems cover a range of topics including calculating amounts of ingredients, distances, speeds, costs, percentages, and more. The majority of the problems can be solved by setting up one or more fraction equations and solving for the unknown value.
The document contains 12 word problems involving fractions. The problems cover a range of topics including calculating amounts of ingredients, distances, speeds, costs, percentages, and more. The majority of the problems can be solved by setting up one or more fraction equations and solving for the unknown value.
The document contains 12 word problems involving fractions. The problems cover a range of topics including calculating amounts of ingredients, distances, speeds, costs, percentages, and more. The majority of the problems can be solved by setting up one or more fraction equations and solving for the unknown value.
The document contains 12 word problems involving fractions. The problems cover a range of topics including calculating amounts of ingredients, distances, speeds, costs, percentages, and more. The majority of the problems can be solved by setting up one or more fraction equations and solving for the unknown value.
of gumdrops and five-eighths of a pound of chocolates. How many pounds of candy does she have? 2. Jose has 1 /2 kilogram of beets and 3 /8 kilogram of tomatoes. How many more kilograms of beets than tomatoes does he have?
1. John has 8 /9 yard of black trim and 3 /4 yard of violet trim. If he has a total of 1 8 /9 yards of trim, how many yards of trim are neither black nor violet? 2. Paul has 1 /4 yard of purple beads and 1 /3 yard of violet beads. If he has a total of 2 1 /3yards of beads, how many yards of beads are neither purple nor violet?
Fractions
1. Mr. Hawkins had received two hundred fifty acres as his headright when he came to the Plymouth Colony. He gave one-eighth of his land to his brother. How many acres did he have left?
2. Savannah and her father went to Paulo's Pizzeria for pizza with everything except anchovies. The pizza was divided into eight slices. Savannah's father ate half of the pizza. Savannah ate the rest. How many slices of pizza did Savannah eat?
3. Zachary made a list of five different kinds of brownies: chocolate chip brownies, Rocky Road brownies, brownies with walnuts, peanut butter swirl brownies, and butterscotch brownies. He asked seventy-eight students to choose their favorite brownie from the last. Two- thirteenths of the students liked peanut butter swirl brownies the best. Three-thirteenths of the students preferred Rocky Road brownies. Chocolate chip brownies were the favorite of 7/39 of the students. 8/39 of the students just loved brownies with walnuts and the rest of the students liked butterscotch brownies best. How many students preferred butterscotch brownies?
5. Sydney likes to ice skate better than roller skating. She said she could go faster on ice skates. If it takes her ninety-six seconds to skate around an ice rink that is one-fourth of a mile around, how long would it take her to skate four miles? Round your answer to the nearest minute.
6. Eric made a chart to show the cost of a typical lunch at his school. According to the chart each meal costs the school $2.83 to make. The price charged for the meal is $2.98. There are 231 students in the school. One-seventh of the students receive free lunches and the rest of the students pay full price. What is the difference between the cost of one hundred thirteen lunches and the amount of money paid for the lunches?
Fractions Complete. 1. Anna's recipe for apple fritters makes eighteen fritters and uses two- thirds of a cup of milk. Anna wants to make six fritters. How much milk will she need?
2. Natalie is making chocolate milkshakes for Nicole's birthday party. There will be fourteen people at the party. It takes a third of a cup of milk to make one chocolate milkshake. How many cups of milk will it take to make fourteen milkshakes?
Complete. 3. A recent forest fire near Littleville destroyed four-fifths of the trees in Bigtree National Forest. The forest covers 4920 km 2 . There is now about 30 tons of salvageable wood per km 2 in the burned area. The part of the forest that was not destroyed by fire will not be open to the salvagers. Assuming the trees are evenly distributed throughout the park, about how long will it take to remove all the salvageable wood at a rate of 53 1/2 tons per day? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
4. One-third of the class grew peas, one- third grew carrots, and one-third grew beans. The class consisted of 63 students of which five- sevenths were girls. The teacher chose the three groups to be as equal in their boy-girl composition as possible. How many boys and girls were assigned to each team?
Complete. 5. In a creek bed, 1/6 of the gravel is less than 5 mm in diameter and 2/3 of it is between 5 and 10 mm in diameter. What fraction of the gravel is greater than one centimeter in diameter?
6. Feldspar is a common mineral on earth. By some estimates, feldspar makes up three-fifths of the mineral mass in the crust. Convert this fraction to a percent.
Complete. 7. A bus is making a trip from Bigtown to Megacity. The average round trip speed is always 54 MPH on this journey. The round trip distance is 120 miles. At Megacity the bus waits exactly 29 minutes and then returns to Bigtown. If the bus has completed 5/6 of this entire journey, how long has it been since it left Bigtown on the way to Megacity? Round your answer to the nearest minute.
8. Two objects (very tiny space ships actually) hit a wall. Object one applied a force of 7/13 of a Newton to the wall and object two applied a force of 3/7 of a Newton. Prove which one applied the larger force. (force = mass x acceleration)
Complete. 9. Six moles of silver nitrate followed by three moles of silver chloride are added to a vat containing 60 L of water. Of the silver that was added, what fraction came from the silver nitrate?
10. If a solution of MgCl is 1/2 M, what will its concentration be if it is diluted by 29%? Express your answer as a fraction.
Complete. 11. Twelve people have signed up for the bowling tournament at Snookie's Bowling Alley and Arcade. This is about 9/16 of the maximum number of people allowed in the tournament. How many more can still sign up?
12. The Floop family went to a hockey game last weekend. They spent $12 on food, $41 on souvenirs, and$9 on drinks. What fraction of their expenditures was spent on drinks?