Dividing Unit Fractions by Whole Numbers

1/2  ÷  2

• 1

• 1/4

• 1/3

• 4

A pet store had 9 cats to feed. If they only had one-fourth of a bag of cat food and each cat got the same amount, what fraction of the bag would each cat get?

• 36

• 1/5

• 1/32

• 1/36

There is 1/3 of a pan of brownies left.  Four children are going to share it equally.  What fraction of the whole pan of brownies will each child get?

• 7

• 1/12

• 1/7

• 12

1/9 divided by 3

• 1/27

• 23

• 27

• 1/23

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

• 8

• 4/3

• 2

• 15

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

Kimberly has 80 coins in her collection. She shared 1/8 of her collection equally between two friends. How many coins did each friend receive?

• 5

• 10

• 25

• 30

4 friends share 1/2 of a pizza. How much does each friend get?

• 1/6

• 1/12

• 1/8

• 1/10