NCERT Solutions for Class 4

Mathematics
Chapter 9- Halves and Quarters

1. Half-Half If the cats ask you to divide the chapati equally, how will you
divide it?
Ans: First fold the chapati into equal half to get the line and then cut it in two
halves along that line.

2. Half of Half If two more cats come for food, how will you divide one
chapati equally for four cats?
Ans: I will first divide the chapati into half and further divide the halves into its
half.

3. Half of Many Pieces Rani got a chocolate. She divided it equally and gave
half to her friend Reena. • Circle the portion that Reena got. How many
pieces of chocolate are there? _______ How many pieces were left with
Rani? _______

Ans: The portion that Reena got is circled below.

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If Rani divided the chocolate and gave half to her friend then she must be left
with 6/2 = 3 chocolates as there are 6 pieces in the chocolate.

4. Draw different shapes using these triangles. One such shape is shown
here.

Ans: Arrange the tiles in such a way that the 2 sides of the triangle form the one
diagonal of rectangle.

5. In how many different ways can you cut a rectangle into half? • Draw 5
different ways.

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Can you check if they are equal?
Ans: The given rectangles can be divided as follows.

Yes, they are equal.

6. In how many different ways can you cut a rectangle into four equal
parts? Draw 5 different ways.

Can you check if they are equal?

Ans:

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Yes, they are equal.

7. Cutting the Cake Rajni’s father brought a cake. She divided the cake
into 4 equal parts — for herself, her brother Raju, her father and her
mother.

• Colour each share with different colours. • How much does each get?
________
Ans:

There are total of 4 parts. If each of them gets one piece out of four then each
1
one gets of the cake.
4

8. Mother gave her share of cake to Rajni. Now colour the total part that
Rajni will get.

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Ans: The part that rajni gets is colored in red.

9. Out of 4 parts Rajni will get _________ parts, which is equal to half of
2 1
the cake. So, she can write it as or .
4 2
Ans: Rajni will get 2 parts out of 4 , that is equal to half of the cake. So, she
2 1
can write it as either or .
4 2

10. Colour the share Raju got.

Ans: The part that Raju gets is colored in green.

11. How much of the cake do Rajni and Raju together get? Colour their
total share. Altogether they get 3 parts out of 4, so we can write it as
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Ans: If Rajni and Raju together get 3 parts out of 4 parts then we can write it
3
as .
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12. One day he wants to eat pumpkin halwa (sweet dish). He tries to buy a
big pumpkin with only Rs 10. He asks the first pumpkin seller the price of a
1
big pumpkin. First pumpkin-seller— of this pumpkin is for Rs10. This
4
full pumpkin will cost Rs __________.
1
Ans: If the price of th of the pumpkin is Rs 10 then the cost of full pumpkin
4
 4 10
.
 Rs 40
Thus a full pumpkin will cost Rs 40.

13. Kundu walks to the next seller and looks for a pumpkin of the same
size. Kundu — How much of this pumpkin will I get for Rs 10? Second
pumpkin-seller — Half.
• This full pumpkin will cost Rs _________.
Ans: If the cost for half pumpkin is Rs 10 then the cost of full pumpkin
 2  Rs10  Rs20
Thus a full pumpkin will cost Rs 20.

14.Using a price list as given below.

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 Item Prise in Rs(per kg)
Tomato 8
Potato 12
Onion 10
Carrot 16
Pumpkin 4
1
(a) How much does kg of tomatoes cost?
2
1
Ans: If the price of 1kg tomatoes is Rs 8 then the cost of kg tomatoes
2
8
  Rs4 .
2
1
Cost of kg tomatoes is Rs4 .
2

1 1
(b) Which costs more – kg of onions or kg of carrots?
2 4
1
Ans: If the price for 1 kg onions is Rs 10 then the price of kg onions
2
10
  Rs 5 .
2
1
Similarly the price for 1 kg carrots is Rs 16 then the price of kg carrots
4
16
  Rs 4 .
4
1
Therefore, kg of onions will cost more.
2

3
(c) What is the price of kg potatoes?
4
3
Ans: If the price of one kg of potatoes is Rs12 then the price of kg potatoes
4
3
 12   Rs 9 .
4
3
Thus, the price of kg potato is Rs 9.
4

(d) Keerthi is going shopping. She has only Rs 20 with her. Can she buy all
the things in her shopping list?

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Ans: If the cost of 1kg of potato is Rs 12 then the cost of kg potato is Rs 6.
2
If the cost of 1 kg pumpkin is Rs 4 then the cost of 2 kg pumpkin is Rs 8.
1
If the cost of 1 kg carrot is Rs 16 then the cost of kg carrot is Rs 4.
4
The total amount  Rs 6  Rs8  Rs 4  Rs 18 .
Keerthi can buy all of the things of her shopping list.

(e) Make two questions yourself from the price list.

Ans: The two questions are as follows.
1. How much money will she save after buying all the things mentioned in her
list?
2. How many extra potatoes can she buy from the money left?

15. Practice Time: What part of the whole is coloured? Write below each
shape.

Ans: The part coloured is as follows.

Two-fourth Half

16. Practice Time Colour that part of the shape which is written below.

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17. Cut in half. Draw a line which divides these shapes into half.

Ans: The given images have been split as follows.

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18. Colour half the number of shapes as shown here.

Ans:

1
19. Colour of these shapes.
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20. Match the coloured part as shown.

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21. Make the other half of the picture is drawn here. Can you complete
2
the picture by drawing the other half?

Ans:

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22. This is a quarter of a picture. Can you complete it? How many more
quarters will you draw to complete it? ___________

Ans:

23. Half and Quarter of a Metre Using your metre scale, cut a string of one
metre.
1 1 3
• On this string, mark the length metre, metre and metre.
2 4 4
1
• Using your string, draw a line of length metre on the floor. How many
2
centimetres long is the line? ___________ Remember, 1 metre = 100 cm So
1
metre = cm .
2

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1
metre = cm
4
3
metre = …cm
4
1 1 3
Can you see that when we add and we get ?
2 4 4
Ans: 1 metre  100 cm Line of
1 100
metre  cm  50 cm
2 2
1 100
metre  cm  25cm
4 4
3 3
metre  100  cm  75cm
4 4

24. Sharing Milk This bottle is full of milk and it holds one litre. The milk is
1
put into 4 other bottles so that each bottle has litre of milk. Shade the
4
bottles to show the level of milk in each.

Remember, 1 litre = 1000 millilitres . How many millilitres of milk does each
bottle have? _________

Ans:
1 litre  1000 millilitres
Each bottle has 1000 ml  4  250 ml
Thus, each bottle contains 250 ml milk.

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25. Sharing Milk Shan poured 1 litre of milk into two bottles so that the
3 1
first bottle holds litre and the other holds litre.
4 4

Shade the level of milk in each bottle. How many millilitres of milk does
each bottle hold?
Ans: 1 litre  1000 millilitres
3
First bottle has 1000  ml  750ml of milk
4
Second botte has 1000  4  250 ml of milk.

26. Balance the weight.

Ans: We know, 1 kg  1000g .

So, 2kg  2000 g . We can make the combination in several ways:

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1) We can take 500  500  250  250  250  200  50  2000g
2) We can take 500  500  1kg  2000g
3) We can take 1kg  250  250  250  200  50  2000g

27.Balance the weight.

3
In how many different ways can you balance this weight of kg ? (1)
4
………………… (2) ………………… (3) …………………

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Ans: We know 1kg  1000g
Thus,
1
kg  1000  4  250 g
4
3
kg  250 g  3  750 g
4
Below are the possible combinations:
1) 500 g  250 g  50 g  750 g
2) 250 g  250 g  250 g  750 g
3) 250 g  250 g  200 g  50 g  750 g

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28. Practice Time • There are 60 mangoes. of them are ripe. How many
2
1
mangoes are ripe? There are 32 children of them are girls. How many
2
children are boys? There are 20 stars. A quarter of them are red. How
many stars are red? How many are not red? Ravi wants a pencil. It costs
Rs2. He gives a one-rupee coin, one half-rupee coin and one quarter-rupee
coin. Is it enough?

Ans: Number of total mangoes  60

1
If of them are ripe then, the number of ripe mangoes  60  2  30 .
2
Thus, 30 mangoes are ripe.
Total number of children  32
1
If of them are girls then the other half are boys.
2
Number of boys  32  2  16
Thus, there are 16 boys out of 32 children.
Total number of stars  20
If quarter of stars are red then number of red stars  20  4  5 .
Thus, 5 stars are red.
Number of non-red stars  20  5  15
Cost of a pencil  Rs 2
We know, Re1 is equal to 100 paisa. So, Rs 2  200paise .

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Ravi gave:
a) Re1  100 paise ,
1 1 100
b) of Re1  100   50paise .
2 2 2
1 1 100
c) of Re1  100   25paise .
4 4 4
Total amount given by Ravi  100  50  25  175paise .
No, the amount given is not enough. Ravi needs to give 200 paise.

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