Multiplication and Division of Fractions

Valerie bought a 9 ft piece of ribbon from which she wants to cut into 2/3 ft pieces. How many 2/3 ft pieces can Valerie cut?

• 13

• 6

• 9

• This is not possible.

Sergio has 3/4 lb of peanuts. He divides them into 1/16-lb snack bags. How many bags does he fill?

• 4

• 12

• 13

• 20

Hope has 6 rattle snakes. She has 1/2 a bag full of dead roaches to equally distribute between 6 rattle snakes. What fraction of the bag of roaches does each snake get.

• 1/6

• 1/12

• 8 1/2

• 3/35

A pallet holding 5 identical crates weighs ¼ ton.  How many tons does each crate weigh? 
See picture for what a pallet is. 

• 20 

• 40 

• 1/20

• 1/40

Multiply the fractions:- \(\frac{9}{11}\times\frac{3}{5}\)

When your dividing a fraction, what would you change the operation to?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Stay as division

What is 3/4 divided by 1/4?

• 3

• 2/4

• 5/8

• 10/20

True or False, 3/10 divided by 1/3 equals 9/10?

• False

• True

Freida has 3/4 gallon of water with fertilizer for her seedlings. She is giving each seedling 1/8 of a gallon of the water. How many seedlings can she water?

A pitcher of water contains 1/4

liters of water. The water is poured equally into 5 glasses. How much liter of water is poured to each glass?

What expression would match the story problem?