Dividing and Multiplying Fractions Word Problems

Coach Peters has 12 gallons of water to fill buckets for field day.  If each bucket needs ⅓ of a gallon to fill, how many buckets can he fill?

• 3/12 bucket

• 12 and ⅓ buckets

• 36 buckets

• 4 buckets

16 friends share 4 Pop-Tarts equally.  what fraction of a Pop-Tart does each friend get? 

• 4

• 2/4

• 1/8

• 1/4

Zavier, Adiel, Stacy and Russell share three bags of candy equally.  What fraction of a bag does each boy get?

• 3/4 bag

• 4/3 bags

• 3/7 bags

• 1 and ⅓ bags

Which scenario can be represented by 10 ÷ ⅕ ?

• Franny has a piece of ribbon that is 10 inches long.  She cuts it into 5 pieces.

• Franny has a piece of ribbon that is 10 inches long.  She cuts it into pieces that are 1/5 in long.

• Franny has a piece of ribbon that is 1/5 inch long.  She cuts it into 10 pieces.

• Franny has 10 pieces of ribbon.  Each piece is 1/5 inch long.  

A moving company had one-sixth of a ton of weight to move across town. If they wanted to split it equally amongst 4 trips, how much weight would they have on each trip?

• 6

• 1⁄ 24

• 24

In Maddie’s garden, 1/3 of her plants are tomatoes. Of those tomatoes, 2/5 of them are ripe. What fraction of the plants are ripe tomatoes?

• 2/8

• 3/15

• 3/8

• 2/15

Natalie bought 10 pizzas for a party. When the party was over, she noticed 1/5 of the pizza was gone. How much pizza did everyone eat at the party?

• 1/2 of pizza

• 2 pizzas

• none

• 1/5 of pizza

Chloe had 3/4 of a pizza left. Addie ate 1/6 of Chloe's pizza. How much pizza did Addie eat?

• 3/24 or 1/8 of the pizza

• 4/10 of the pizza

• 18/4 of the pizza

• 4/18 of the pizza

Two-thirds of the students in your class are boys. One-eighth of the boys play soccer. What fraction of the kids in your class are boys who play soccer? 

• 3/11

• 1/4

• 1/12

• 1/5

Hadley has a 1/2 kilogram of popcorn.  She divides the popcorn into 3 equal bags.  How many kilograms of popcorn are in each bag?

• 3

• 1/6

• 6

• 3/9