One and Two Step Word Problems with Fractions

Paul runs a small farm. After the last harvest, he weighed the amount of squash he collected. He had 42.2 total pounds of green and yellow squash. If yellow squash made up 1/5 of the harvest by weight, how many pounds of green squash did he have? Write your answer as a whole number, decimal, fraction, or mixed number. Simplify any fractions.

David has 3 1/2 cups of blueberries. He uses 1/4 of a cup of blueberries to make a breakfast smoothie. He uses 1/2 of the remaining blueberries to make blueberry pancakes. How many cups of blueberries does he use for the pancakes?

Write your answer as a whole number, fraction, or mixed number. Simplify any fractions.

11 How much longer did Lois play than Souzi?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Gretchen spends 1/2 an hour grooming Hobo and 1/3 of an hour riding Hobo. How much time did she spend with Hobo?

________ hours.

Candice and Chris run a relay race at recess. Candice runs 1 ⅓ of a lap around the track. Chris runs ½ of a lap around the track. How much farther does Candice run than Chris?

________ laps

Tina lives 2 ¼ miles from the library. Sonya lives 3 ½ miles from the library. How much further does Sonya live than Tina?

_________ miles

Daniella made 2 4/5 cups of lemonade on Wednesday and 1 1/2 cups of lemonade on Thursday. How much lemonade did she make on those two days combined?

• 4  2/5 cups

• 4  3/10 cups

• 4  1/10 cups

• 4  1/2 cups

The snow fell in Monroe twice in one day. The city received 3/8 of an inch of snow in the morning and another 1/2 inch of snow in the afternoon. How many inches of snow fell in total in Monroe that day?

• 1/8

• 3/10

• 5/8

• 7/8

Stephanie drew 12 pictures. She drew ⅔ of them in art class. How many pictures did she draw in art class?

• 8 pictures

• 4 pictures

• 6 pictures

• 9 pictures

Two thirds of the students in your class are boys. One eighth of the boys play football. What fraction of the students in your class are boys who play football?

• 3/11

• 1/4

• 1/12

• 1/5