involving Fractions

(6) Solving Word Problems

Solve the word problems.
slices. Her
65. Helen cut astrawberry cake into 10equal children ate 4
What fraction of the cake was left?

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66. Benson cut a bar of chocolate into 12 equal pieces. He gave 1

pieca:
George, 2 pieces to Isabella and 4 pieces to Marc. What fraction nf
chocolate was left?

DLAT

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67. Violet cut a large pizza into 20 egual slices.

2more slices than Anna. Anna ate 2 slices. ree
What fraction of the pizza was let?

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198) MathernatiCs Tutor 3B

 68.
Daniel cut an apple pie into equal pieces to share with his brothers, Tim
and Alex. Tim then cut his share of the pizza into equal pieces so that he
and his 3 friends will get get?
a piece each. What fraction of the original pízza
did each of Tim's friends

Darie! Tim

Alex

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2 3
69. Pauline spent 5
of her money on a dress and 10
of her money on a
handbag. What fraction of her money did she spend altogether?

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rest in a stamp
of his stamps to his brother and kept the
6
70. Ryan gave
album. What fraction of his stamps did he keep?

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Chapter 11: Fractions 199

 Of
71 George read of storybook. lsabella read the same
2
storybook.
fraction of the storybook did Isabella read more than George?
w

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1
72. Theresa completed of a jigsaw puzzle in the morning. She
12 completes
of the same jigsaw puzzle in the afternoon. What fraction of the jiosa
puzzle had she completed?

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73. Martha had 3 kg of barley. She used 1

A kg to make a barley drink. How
4

many kilograms of barley had she left?

RLEY

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200) Mathematics Tulor 3B

 5 milk while her
drank Iof
carton of milk. Her son 12
bought a
Sandra much milk did they drink altogether?
Iof milk. How
1
74. daughterdrank 3

Milk/

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1
kg. The mass of the empty tin is kg.
o8

of biscuits is 5
75. The mass of a tin biscuits.
10
Find the mass of the

B5Cuit

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76. Eric spent 1 3

5
of his money on a T-shirt and 10
of it on a football. What
Traction of his money was left? Leave your answer in its simplest form.

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Chapter 11: Fractions

201
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77. Elizabeth had some flour. She used 3
of the flour to bake a cake 1
and 12
of it to make some muffins. What fraction of the flour was left?

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78. Jack cut a pizza into 12 equal slices. How many slices should he eat ifhe 8
1
wants to eat of the pizza?

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1 of it and
79. Lisa bought a cake which was cut into 8 equal slices. She ate 4
1
her brother ate of it. Howmany slices of the cake were left?

slices

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202) Mathenatics Tutor 3B

 1
Tom cut a watermelon into 9 equal slices. His family ate 3
of the watermelon
80. 2
and he gave of the watermelon to his friends. How many slices of
watermelon were left?

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7 1
bought a m of string. He used m of it to tie some parcels and gave
81. Ivan 4
1
some of it to Jack. If Ivan had 2
m of string left, find the length of string
Jack received.

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1
82. Agnes bought some sugar. She used of it to make some cookies, 5 of
fraction
it to make some tarts and of it to make some cupcakes. What
of the sugar did she use altogether?
SUGAR)

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Chapter 11: Fractions 203

 83. Simon bought 1 /of orange juice. He drank in the
morning His
drank some orange juice. If there was
7
12
of orange juice left,. brothe
orange juice did Simon's brother drink?

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1
kg of flour to bake a cake
kg of flour in a tin. Lisa used
5
84. There were 12
3
How much flou
kg of flour and poured it into the tin.
1
She then bought 2

is there in the tin in the end?

FLOUR

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(204) Mhathemalics Tutor 3B

 7 of a cake. Marc ate
Peter ate of the same cake. Ben ate of the
12 12
85.
cake. What fraction of the cake was left? Leave yOur answer in its
same
simplest form.

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1
86. Anne, Ben and Charlie shared a chicken pie. Anne ate 12
of it. Ben ate 3
5
of it and Charlie ate of it.
12

(a) Who ate the most pie?

(b) What fraction of the pie was left? Leave your answer in the simplest
form.

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(b)

Chapter 11: Fractions 205

 1 1
87. A red ribbon is m long. Apink ribbon is m shorter than
9
the red
(a) Find the length of the pink ribbon. ritkr;
(b) Find the total length of both ribbons.

Ans:(a)
(b)
2
88. Cindy bought an ice-cream cake. Her family ate 3
of it and her friends a
5 of it.
(a) What fraction of the cake was eaten?
(b) What fraction of the cake was left?

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(b)
(z00) Mathenatics Tulor 38
 KING

SKI
ORNER
Ell in the missing numerators and denominators

6 10
(a) 15 (b) 12 19 (c)

2 Fil in the missing fractions.

1 1
(a) 2
1 12

2 1
(b) |+ =1 - &

7 1. 1
(c) 12

2 1
(d) 1 5 +
10

3
Find the possible values of X and Y. X and Yare whole numbers
1
1
4

X= and Y

Chapte 11: Fractions 207

 4.
represents 24 cars, then

(a) represents cars and

(b) represents Cars.

5. Anne bought a cake. She cut the cake into equal

slices. Her family ate
of the cake. She gave 2 slices to her
friends and had 4 slices left. How
many slices of cake did she have at first?

Slices
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208) Mathematics Tutor 3B
 6

1
Iam thinking of a fraction. It is greater than but
6

smaller than What fraction am Ithinking of? Leave

James 2

your answer in the simplest form.

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7.

Iam also thinking of a fraction. It is greater

1
than but smaller than 1 . What fraction Amy
4 2

am I thinking of?

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Chapter 11: Fractions 209

 3
8. Karen wanted to buy of a chocolate cake but the
4

portion shown below. What fraction of the cake was she

bakery ony han,
short of?

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9.
Fiona bought a packet of flour.
She used 1 of it to
and make some pancake:
3 of it to make some
cookies. If she had 175 g of flour left,
flour did she buy? how mu

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210)
Mathematics Tutor 3B
 shopkeeper had 80 toys
soldiers. He
10 children. He then packed the rest into 7 gave away 52 toy soldiers to his
A
equal boxes He sold 2 boxes What
fraction of the shopkeeper's toy soldiers were sold?

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1 5
11. Patricia bought a bag of beads. 6
of the beads were purple. of them
12
1
were pink and of them were white. The rest of the beads were red. Which
3

colour bead did she have the most?

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Chapter 11: Fractions211

 Tim wrote down the fraction on a piece of paper. When
12 he adds
whote number to the numerator and denominator. the Ihe sar a
fraction
What number is added to both the numerator and
denominator?becomes

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13. James had a bag of
marbles. He had twice as many blue as
He had thrice as many
green as red marbles. What green marbles.
were blue? fraction of his marbles

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