grade4,word problem of 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 4/6/5/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. Jose watched fifty planes land. Half of them were from Skyway Airlines. How many planes were from Skyway Airlines? 2. Jessica has fifteen dolls. Fourfifths of the dolls have brown hair. How many of her dolls don't have brown hair? 3. There are seventy-two students in our class. Eight-ninths of the students are boys. How many girls are in our class? 4. There are fifty-six kittens in the box. One-fourth of the kittens are male. How many of the kittens are male? 5. Thomas bought thirty sheets of paper. He has used two-thirds of the paper. How many sheets of paper are left? 6. Ashley has forty-five notebooks. Two-fifths of them are for school. How many of the notebooks are for school? 7. Miss Lee has thirty plants. Threefifths of them have flowers. How many of her plants don't have flowers? 8. There are forty cows in the field. Half of the cows are black and white. How many of the cows are not black and white?