Dividing Fractions Word Problems

Mr. Olson has a 6 pound bag of candy. He wants to make treat bags for his students that each contain 1/4 pound of candy. How many treat bags can he make?

• 20 bags

• 24 bags

• 26 bags

• 10 bags

Jonah has 1/2 of his book left to rread. He has 5 days left to finish reading the book before he has to return it to the library. What fraction of the book does he need to read each day so that he finishes it before he has to return it to the library?

• 1/5

• 1/6

• 1/12

• 1/10

Lese has 1/3 of a bag of sprinkles to decorate cookies with. She wants to split the sprinklesequally among 18 cookies. What fraction of the bag of sprinkles will she use on each cookie?

• 1/11

• 1/54

• 1/36

• 1/24

Karl cut 4 apple pies into pieces thatwere each 1/6 of a pie. How many servings did he cut the pies into?

• 20 servings

• 10 servings

• 24 servings

• 18 servings

Sonia has 2 gallons of milk in her fridge. She uses 1/10 of a gallon of milk for her breakfast each morning. How many days will her milk last?

• 20 days

• 10 days

• 5 days

• 15 days

8 pizzas were being shared equally among the kids in the math club. Each kid got 1/3 of a pizza. How many kids were in the math club?

• 24 kids

• 20 kids

• 26 kids

• 28 kids

How many 1/4 cup servings are in an 8 cup bag of granola?

• 2 servings

• 8 servings

• 32 servings

• 36 servings

Denny picked 1/3 gallon of blueberries. He split the blueberries equally into 3 containers. What fraction of a gallon is in each container?

• 1/9 gallon

• 1/6 gallon

• 1/12 gallon

• 1/8 gallon

Jamala has 1/5 of a box of cookies she wants to sharethem equally with her sister. What fraction of the box of cookies will her sister get?

• 1/2 of the box

• 1/8 of the box

• 1/4 of the box

• 1/10 of the box

After Andrea's birthday party she had 1/4 of her cake leftover. She wanted to share the leftover cake equally among herself and her 2 sisters. What fraction of the cake did each sister receive?

• 1/8

• 1/12

• 1/10

• 1/6