Division of Fractions Word Problems

Molly has 10 feet of ribbon. She is making ornaments. Each ornament uses 1/5 foot of ribbon. How many ornaments can Molly make?

• 15

• 50

• 2

• 1/2

George has ½ gallon of blue paint. He needs to paint 8 chairs. How much paint can George use on each chair?

• 16 gallons

• 4 gallons

• 1/4 gallon

• 1/16 gallon

Joseph has 1/3 of a pizza left over. She cuts it into 3 equal slices. Each of the slices is what fraction of the entire Pizza?

• 1/6

• 1/9

• 3/9

• 3/3

Molly has 3 pounds of blueberries. She is freezing the berries into 1/2 pound portions. How many smaller portions of blueberries will Molly make?

• 5

• 6

• 2 ½

• 1/6

Peter has 8 gallons of water. He drinks 1/5 gallon per day, how long will the water last?

• 1/40 day

• 13 days

• 40 days

• 1 3/5 days

There are 9 people at a party, each person wants pizza. Only 4/6 of a pizza is left. How much pizza will each person get if they split it evenly?

• 4/54

• 4/15

• 2/27

• 36/6

I have 9  1/2 cookies. I have to split the cookies evenly among 20 people. How much does each person get?

• 19/40

• 18/40

• 1/2

• 380/2

Max and Lucy ate 3/12 of a turkey. They both split the left overs evenly. How much will each person take home? 

• 9/36

• 3/24

• 9/24

• 1/8

Jenesia wants to split 8/15 of a bag of pumpkins seeds with Juliana. How much do they each get?

• 1  1/15

• 8/30 

• 4/15

• 9/17

There is 95  3/5 pieces of oak wood, 65  7/10 pieces of birch wood, and 197 49/50 pieces of spruce wood. 5 people need the oak wood for a boat. The oak wood needs to be evenly split among the 5 people. How much oak wood does each person get?

• 19 1/5

• 19 3/25

• 478/5

• 455/5