Fractions of a Set Word Problem

How much of the Kit-Kat bar did Doug get to eat?

• 1/4

• 2/4

• None

• 3/4

Simon has 1/5 of a gallon of cranberry juice, 1/3 of a gallon of apple juice, and 7/10 of a gallon of grape juice. How much juice does Simon have?

• 9/30

• 1/2

• 1  7/30

• 1  13/30

A batch of oatmeal cookies calls for 3/4 cup of oatmeal. Ellen is making 4 1/2 batches of cookies. How many cups of oatmeal will she need?

• 3

• 3  1/8

• 3  3/8

• 4   4/6

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

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

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

You have 2/3 of a pumpkin pie left over from Thanksgiving. You want to give 1/2 of it to your sister. How much of the whole pumpkin pie will this be?

• 1/5

• 1/4

• 1/3 

• 1/6

How many hamburgers are there?

• 10 hamburgers

• 2/20 hamburgers

• 8 hamburgers

• 14 hamburgers