Fractions All Operations With Word Problems

There are seven gloves in the lost & found box. There are two blue gloves, three green gloves, one black glove, and one brown glove. What fraction of the gloves are black?

• 1/7

• 2/7

• 3/7

• 6/7

Gene ate 2/8 of the pizza pie. Tommy ate 1/8 of the pizza pie. What fraction of the pizza pie was eaten altogether?

• 5/8

• 4/8 or 1/2

• 2/8 or 1/4

• 3/8

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

Denis has 100 baseball cards.

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

• 133

• 1/3

• 25

• 75

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

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

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

Find 12 x 7/10.

Write in simplest form.

• 8 1/5

• 8 2/5

• 12 7/10

• 9 1/5

Marty made two types of cookies.  He used 2/3 cup of sugar for one recipe and 1/4 cup  of sugar for the other.  How much sugar did he use in all? 

• 5/12

• 3/7

• 11/12

• 1/3

Pam walks 7/8 of a mile to school.  Paul walks 1/2 of a mile to school.  How much farther does Pam walk than Paul? 

• 3/8

• 4/5

• 1 3/8

• 3/4