Multiply Fractions Word Problems

Kai spent 24 days at Grandma's house last summer.

His sister spent ⅜ of that time at Grandma's.

How many days did Kai's sister spend at Grandma's house last summer?

• 6 days

• 9 days

• 14 days

• 64 days

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CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

A recipe calls for 2/5 of a pound of chicken for each person. If there are 8 people to be fed, how many pounds of chicken are required?

• 1/5 pound

• 3 1/5 pounds

• 2 2/5 pounds

• 20 pounds

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CCSS.6.NS.A.1

Jaz read for 4/8 of an hour every day of the week. How many hours does she read each week?

• 3 1/2 hours

• 3 hours

• 2 4/8 hours

• 4 hours

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CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Denis has 100 baseball cards.

1/4 of them are new. How many of them are not new?

• 133

• 1/3

• 25

• 75

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CCSS.5.NF.A.2

CCSS.5.NF.B.3

Rosemary ran 2/3 of mile.

Sophie ran 3 times as far. How far did Sophie run?

• 6/3 miles

• 2 miles

• 3 miles

• 4 miles

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CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.5

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

The Valley High School printed 445 tickets for the school play in Spring.

3/5 of the tickets were sold out by January.

How many tickets remain to be sold?

(Hint: this is a 2-step word problem)

• 200 tickets

• 178 tickets

• 145 tickets

• 175 tickets

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CCSS.7.EE.B.3

Mrs. Corbett signed 1/2 of all the holiday cards and Mr. Corbett signed 3/8 of all of them. Mrs. Smith will sign the rest of them.

If there were 32 cards in all, how many are left to be signed by Mrs. Smith?

• 4 cards

• 12 cards

• 16 cards

• 28 cards

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CCSS.5.NF.A.1

CCSS.5.NF.A.2

To stay healthy, we should drink 6 1/2 glasses of water a day. If we follow this guideline, how much water would we drink in a full week?

• 32 1/2 cups

• 45 cups

• 33 cups

• 45 1/2 cups

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CCSS.7.NS.A.3

Silver City is 30 miles away. Tom has driven 1/5 of the distance. How many miles does Tom have left to drive?

• 6 miles

• 10 miles

• 15 miles

• 24 miles

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

Find 12 x 7/10.

Write in simplest form.

• 8 1/5

• 8 2/5

• 12 7/10

• 9 1/5

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CCSS.4.NF.B.4C

CCSS.4.NF.B.4B