Multiplying and Dividing with Fractions - Word Problems

Ivan uses his truck to take oranges to the fruit juice processing plant. His truck can carry 1/4 ton at one time. If he needs to take 3 tons of oranges to the plant, what fraction of the oranges will be taken on each trip?

1/12

Harrison spends 1/3 of the day doing chores. He has 5 chores in all. What part of the day does he spend on each chore?

1/15

A pizza is cut into eight equal pieces. Each slice is then cut in half to create two smaller equal pieces. What fraction of the total pizza does one of the smaller pieces represent?

1/16

Jenny bought 1/6 lb. of jelly beans to share equally with 3 friends. How much does each person get, including Jenny?

1/18

What is the quotient when 1/8 is divided by 50?

1/400

Patrick ate 3/5 of a small pizza on Friday night. For lunch on Saturday, he ate 1/2 of the leftover pizza. How much pizza did he eat for lunch on Saturday?

1/5

Two friends shared 1/3 of a gallon of water equally. How much water did each friend get?

1/6

Kim and Scott have two glasses of milk. The glasses are the same size. One glass is 1/12 full. The other glass is 1/6 full. The milk is divided equally between Kim and Scott. How much of a glass of milk will each of them have?

1/8

A truck is carrying machine parts. It has 48 tons of parts that are packed in 1/2-ton boxes and 36 tons of parts that are packed inspace 1/4-ton boxes. How many boxes is the truck carrying in all?

240

On a rainy day, Parker and his mom watched movies for 2 2/3 hours. They played games for 1 1/4 times as long as they watched movies. How many hours did Parker and his mom play games?

3 1/3

Nancy had 1 1/2 boxes of bubble gum. Each box had 1/2 grape flavor and 1/2 strawberry flavor. How much of the gum was grape flavored?

3/4

Darren has 1/2 of a box of doughnuts. He eats 3/4 of them. What fraction of the whole box of doughnuts did Darren eat?

3/8

Which expression gives the same result as 36 divided by 1/3?

36 x 3

Lydia has 6 1/2 bags of gumballs. In each of the bags, 3/4 of the gumballs are red. If Lydia removes all the red gumballs, how many bags of only red gumballs can Lydia make?

4 7/8

Samantha has 16 cups of ice cream. What is the greatest number of 1 over 3-cup servings that Samantha can make from 16 cups of ice cream?

48