Pre_Al_1_5_S

© 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 1 Q1. A class has 20 girls and 30 boys. What part of the class are boys? Q2. At my birthday party, the girls ate pizzas and the boys ate 7 pizzas. How many pizzas were eaten at my party? Q3. I bought 2 gallons of paint but I only used gallons of the paint. How much paint do I have left? Q4. My recipe calls for cups of white flour and 2 cups of whole wheat flour. How much flour do I need in total for my recipe? PRE ALGEBRA TOPIC: FRACTIONS Pre/Al/1/5/S © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 2 Q5. My dog is 5 years old. My cat is 4 years younger than my dog. How old is my cat? Q6. During the pie eating contest my dad ate 5 pies and my mom ate 2 pies. How many pies did they eat altogether? Q7. I need to drink 8 cups of water and 2 cups of milk every day. How much fluid do I have to drink? Q8. Stewart won 50 dollars and Edward won 30 dollars in a race. What was the total cash prize in the race? © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 3 Q9. Mr. Mark’s family went for a trip. To make the journey interesting, they traveled first 53 1/4 km by car and the remaining 10 2/3 km by horse ride. What was the total distance of the trip? Q10. Mr. White and Co. has total profit of 6/7 of million dollars. The spinning department gave a profit of 1/2 of million dollars and weaving department gave a profit of 1/4 of million dollars. Find the fraction of profit from other departments. © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 4 Q11. Three friends Christ, Marx and Davey participated in gun shooting events. Each of them was given 10 chances. They hit the targets 3 times, 2 times and 4 times respectively out of 10 chances each. Find the total targets hit by them in fraction. Q12. A side of an equilateral triangle is 3/11 feet. Find the perimeter of a triangle. Q13. The length and width of a rectangle is 3/2 cm and 1/2 cm respectively. Find the perimeter of a rectangle. Q14. Sam celebrates his birthday with two small cakes. 7 people attended the birthday party. What fraction of cake each one will receive excluding Sam? © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 5 Q15. Nick and Robert have worked together and completed 3/4 of work in a day. Robert has done 2/5 of work. Find the work done by Nick. Q16. Mr. Briar, principal of Edward Public School, collects funds for School development. 2/3 of funds are collected from school students and 1/6 of funds are collected from school development charity and the rest are collected from Public. What fraction of funds collected from public? Q17. Anne has 1 pizza, Emily has 1 3/4 of pizza and Julie has 1/7 of pizza. Find the total number of pizzas. © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 6 Q18. To make a milk shake, 2 gallons of milk, 1/7 of gallons of essence and 3/4 of gallons of fruit juice were required. Find the total gallons of milk shake made out of it. Q19. Harris has to travel 2 2/3 of a mile. He walked 1 1/3 of the distance and the remaining by car. Find the distance covered by car. Q20. Kate and Tony took part in running race. They covered a distance of 5/8 yards and 8/9 yards respectively. Find the distance between these athletes. © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 7 Q21. An ornament is made of gold and copper. Its total weight is 96 g. If of it is copper, find the weight of gold in it. Q22. There are 500 oranges in a box. Of them are bad and are kept for some guests. How many can be used? Q23. A man spends of his money and still has $ 80 left with him. How much money he had first? © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 8 Q24. After going of my journey, I find that I have covered 12 miles. How much distance is still left? Q25. In a school, of the children are boys and the number of girls are 100. Find the number of boys. Q26. In a garden, are mango trees; are banana trees and the rest are orange trees. If the orange trees are 65 in number, find the total number of trees in the garden. © 2009 -2011 tutorco.com 9 Q27. A sum of money was divided between Stewart and Robert so that Stewart gets of the whole money. If he gets $ 20,000; how much was the total money? And, how much does Robert get? Q28. Sam had 120 teddy bears in his toy store. He sold of them at $12 each. How much did he receive? Q29. Martha spent of her allowance on food and shopping. What fraction of her allowance had she left? Q30. of a group of children were girls. If there were 24 girls, how many children were there in the group?