Fraction Word Problems All Operations

Jason is having a pizza party for his birthday. If he is having 20 friends over and they each eat 3/8 of a pizza, how many pizzas should he order for the party?

Ricky needed to buy the ice cream for his family dinner. He wants to buy enough ice cream so each of the 18 guests can have 3/4 of a pint of ice cream. How many pints should he buy?

• 14

• 24

Josie collected 2/3 of a bin of cans to recycle. Dianne collected 9 times as many bins as Josie. How many bins of cans did Dianne collect?

• 6

A recipe calls for 4/5 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of rice. How much more milk than rice is needed?

• 3/10

• 7/20

• 9/20

• 4/10

Logan collected 18 ten-dollar bills while selling tickets for a show. He gave 1/6 of the bills to the theater and kept the rest. How much money did he keep?

• $150

• $165

• $132

• $155

Herald was making a recipe that needs 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and 1/8 cup of olive oil. How much oil does it need in all?

• 3/8 cup of oil

• 5/8 cup of oil

• 4/7 cup of oil

• 3/4 cup of oil

Drew ate 1/3 of a cake for breakfast and 2/5 of the cake for lunch. How much cake did Drew eat?

• 1/15 of a cake

• 10/15 of a cake

• 3/8 of a cake

• 11/15 of a cake

Andrew ran 1/3 of a mile and swam 5/6 of a mile. How much farther did he swim than run?

• 5/18 of a mile

• 1/2 of a mile

• 4/3 of a mile

• 3/6 of a mile

A pet store had 4 cats to feed. If they only had 1/5 of a bag of cat food and each cat got the same amount, how much would each cat get?

• 1/20 of a bag

• 20 bags

• 4/5 of a bag

• 5/4 bags

A store had 4 boxes of video games. How many days would it take to sell the games if each day they sold 1/5 of a box?

• 1/20 of a day

• 20 days

• 4/5 days

• 5/4 days