grade 5,word problem fraction

© 2007 1 – 2010 tutorco.com Solve the following questions: Question 1. Mindy baked a dozen cookies. She ate 2. She gave 2 to Missy, 2 to Cindy, and 2 to Shelly. What is the fraction for the number of pieces that are left? Question 2. Write a fraction bigger than 1/2 and smaller than 1. Question 3. The mother hen has ten female chicks and five male chicks. What fraction of the chicks are males? Question 4. Out of 5/3 of the chocolate bar that Joey had, he gave 1/3 to his sister. How much chocolate bar was left with him? TOPIC: FRACTION 5/6/4/S © 2007 2 – 2010 tutorco.com Question 5. Sally walked 4/5 of a mile before lunch and 6/5 of a mile after lunch. How far did she walk in all? Question 6. There are twenty-six pencils on the table. Eight of the pencils are sharp. What fraction of the pencils is not sharp? Question 7. I bought 5/2 gallons of paint but used only 2/4 gallons. How much paint do I have left? Question 8. Anna had 3/4 dozen eggs. She used 7/12 dozen for breakfast. How many dozen did she have left? © 2007 3 – 2010 tutorco.com Question 9. Jenny had a whole pie. She cut it into 8 pieces. She ate one piece and gave Karen and Candy 2 pieces each. What is the fraction of the pie that is left? Question 10. Tom bought a board that was 7/8 of a yard long. He cut off 1/2 of a yard. How much board was left? Question 11. Amy, Jasmine, Katrina and Myra each walked from their houses to the mall. Amy walked 1/2 mile, Jasmine walked 1/4 mile, Katrina walked 3/4 mile, and Myra walked 5/8 mile. List these distances in order from greatest to the least. Question 12. William measured the two bugs he found. The cricket was three-fourths of an inch long. The ant was one-eighth of an inch long. How much longer was the cricket than the ant? © 2007 4 – 2010 tutorco.com Solve the following : 1. Danielle ate five-sevenths of her orange before lunch and oneseventh of her orange after lunch. How much of her orange did she eat in all? 2. There are ten pieces of pizza. Brian ate one-tenth of the pizza for dinner. He ate four-fifths of the pizza for a bedtime snack. How much of the pizza is left? 3. On Friday Devin ate seven-tenths of a pound of cherries. On Saturday he ate half of a pound of cherries. What was the total weight of the cherries Devin ate? 4. There are nine pieces of pizza. Cameron ate two-ninths of the pizza for dinner. He ate twothirds of the pizza for a bedtime snack. How much of the pizza has he eaten in all? 6. Sydney's pencil is six and a half inches long. Danielle's pencil is seven and one-twelfth inches long. How long are the two pencils altogether? 6. Jennifer made a cake. She used one and a half cups of white flour and three cups of whole-wheat flour. How much flour did she use in all? 7. Abigail walked a mile in nineteen and one-fifth minutes. It took Morgan only fourteen and a half minutes. How much long did it take Abigail to walk a mile? 8. Jordan made a snack of peanuts and M&Ms®. He used three and one-fourth cups of peanuts and one and a half cups of M&Ms®. How much snack did Jordan make? © 2007 5 – 2010 tutorco.com