Marcela Gutierrez

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Math 1300 – Fractions Activity 8/28/2020 Friday August 28, 2020
10:00 am

1. Identify the numerator and denominator for each fraction.

5 24 x Numerator: 24
a) Numerator: 5 b)
12 67 m Denominator: 67
Denominator: 12

2. Write a fraction that represents the shaded area.

a) b) 4/9 c)
5/8 5/9

3. A box contains 7 orange balls, 8 green balls, and 4 red balls. What fraction of the box
is made up of red balls?
4/19

4. What fraction of a week is Wednesday?

5. Five friends are making three pizzas. If they all want an equal amount of pizza, how
much pizza do they each get?

3/5
Simplify if possible.

0 0 -43 -3 Undefined
6. 7. 1 8.
-19 -43 0

Proper and Improper Fractions

9. Label the fractions as proper or improper.

8 33
a) b) Proper
proper
31 34

Directions: Convert the mixed number to an improper fraction.

14
10. 9 167/17
17

Directions: Convert the improper fraction to a mixed number.

23
11.
4
Simplifying Fractions

Directions: Determine if the numbers are divisible by: 2, 3, 5 and/or 10.

12. 31 Not divisible by any 13. 7212 2&3
number.

14. Alina baked 129 cupcakes for her 43-guest party. Can Alinas’ guests enjoy
evenly the cupcakes? 43 129

Prime Factorization

Directions: Determine whether the number is prime, composite, or neither.

15. 19 Prime 16. 23 Prime
17. 59 Prime 18. 1 Neither

Directions: Determine whether the factorization represents the prime

factorization. If it is not, explain why.
19. 98 = 2 × 49 20. 60 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 5
No, 49 is not prime. Yes

Find the prime factorization.

21. 136 22. 210
Equivalent Fractions and Simplifying are equal in value.
They represent the same part of the whole.
Directions: Determine if the fractions are equivalent by simplifying.
Not Equivalent
5 15 2 18
23. = 24. =
8 24 3 21

Directions: Simplify the fraction to lowest terms.

15 72 x 16ab
25. 26. 27. -
24 60 x 2 12a

Applications of Simplifying Fractions

28. A two-year college employs 210 mathematics professors. 126 mathematics

professors are employed in the South Campus of the two-year college. What
fraction of the professors work at the South Campus?
The chart shows the number of movies a film company produced in 5 years.

29. What fraction of the movies was

Movie Production
produced in the fourth year? 19
20
16

Number of Movies
15
15 13
12

10

0
1 2 3 4 5
Year
30. What fraction of the movies was
produced in the fifth year?