Fraction worksheet word problems 1

1. Sujith travels one-third of a distance. If the distance is 12 km, then find the remaining distance that he would have travelled
(in km).

2. The total strength of a class is 36 students. If three-fourth of the students is taking an examination from the class, then how
many students are not taking the examination?

3. Anil travels from place A to place B and Akhil travels from place B to place A. Anil travels onethird of the distance and Akhil
travels one-fourth of the distance. The distance travelled by Anil is one kilometer more than the distance travelled by Akhil.
What is the distance between place A and place B? (In km)

4. Three friends A, B and C have some money. If A has 3/10 of the total money, B has 7/15 of the total money and C has 7/30
of the total money. Who has the biggest share of the money? If the total money is ` 1500, then how much money does A
have?

5. There are 125 balls in a basket. Out of which, 15 are white, 25 are brown, 35 are green, and the remaining are pink in
colour. Find the share of the balls for each color in the basket.

6. Joshna and Vijay have some chocolates. The number of chocolates with Joshna is two-third of the number of chocolates
with Vijay. If Vijay gives five chocolates to Joshna, then both will have equal number of chocolates. How many chocolates does
Joshna have?

7. Priyanka spends 2/15 of her income on clothes, 1/9 of her income on entertainment, 4/15 of her income on rent, 1/3 of the
income on food and she saves the remaining amount of `10,500. What is the income of Priyanka?

8. A rope of length 18 -1/ 2 m is cut into equal pieces of 1- 7 /30 m each. Find the number of pieces.

9. Mr Perfect earns `54000 per month. He spends 2/15 of his earnings on house rent, 4/9 of his earnings on other household
items and saves the remaining. What fraction of amount is the savings in his earnings?

10. The cost of one dozen oranges is `43- 1 /2 . Find the cost of 2- 1/ 3 dozen of oranges

11. A water bottle is 3/ 5 full and 1 /7 of the water is drawn. How much water is remaining in the bottle?

12.Ravish had 20 pencils, Shikha had 50 pencils and Priya had 80 pencils. After 4 months, Ravish used up 10 pencils, Shikha
used up 25 pencils and Priya used up 40 pencils. What fraction did each use up? Check if each has used up an equal fraction of
their pencils?

13,Isha read 25 pages of a book containing 100 pages. Nagma read ½ of the same book. Who read less?

14. Amit was given 5/7 of a bucket of oranges. What fraction of oranges was left in the basket?

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15)If a boy works for six consecutive days for 8 hours ,72 hours,8 4 hours, 64 hours,64 hours and 7 hours respectively. How
much money will he earn at the rate of Rs. 36 per hour?

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16)A student bought 43m of yellow ribbon, 66m of red ribbon and 39m of blue ribbon for decorating a room.How many
metres of ribbon did he buy?

17)In a business , Ram and Deepak invest 3/5and 2/5 of the total investment. If Rs.40,000 is the total investment, calculate
the amount invested by each?

18)Geeta had 30 problems for homework. She worked out 2/5 of them. How many problems were still left to be worked out
by her?

19)A picture was marked at Rs. 90. It was sold at of ¾ of its marked price. What was the sale price ?
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20)Mani had sent fifteen parcels of oranges. What was the total weight of the parcels, if each weighed 102kg?

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21) A rope is 252m long. How many pieces 12m each of length can be cut out from it ?

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22)The heights of two vertical poles , above the earth’s surface are 14 m and 22 m respectively. How much higher is the
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second pole as compared with the height of the first pole ?

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23)Vijay weighed 652kg. He gained 15kg during first week, 14kg during the second week, but lost 5/16kg during the third
week.What was his weight after the third week ?

24)A man spends 2/5of his salary on food and 3/10 on house rent, electricity, etc. What fraction of his salary is still left with
him?

25)Shyam bought a refrigerator for Rs.5000. He paid 1/10 of the price in cash and the rest in 12 equal monthly installments .
How much he had to pay each month ?

26)A lamp post has half of its length in mud, and 1/33 of its length in water.

(i) what fraction of its length is above the water ?

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(ii) if 3 m of the lamp post is above the water, find the whole length of the lamp post.
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27)I spent 3/5of my savings and still have Rs. 2,000 left. What were my savings ?

28)In a school , 4/5of the children are boys . If the number of girls is 200, find the number of boys.

299)If 4/5of an estate is Rs. 42,000, find the worth of the whole estate. Also,find the value 3/7 of it.

30) After going 3/4of my journey , I find that I have covered 16 km. How much journey is still left ?

31)When Krishna travelled 25 km, he found that 3/5of his journey was still left. What was the length of the whole journey?

32)From a piece of land, one-third is bought by Rajesh and one - third of remaining is bought by Manoj. If 600m2 land is still
left unsold ,find the total area of the piece of land.

33)A boy spent 3/5 of his money on buying cloth and 1/4of the remaining on buying shoes. If initially he had Rs. 2400, how
much did he spend on shoes ?