Dividing Whole Numbers by Unit Fractions: Fun Challenges!

If you have 12 apples and you want to share them equally among 1/4 of a group, how many apples does each person get?

• 3 apples

• 0 apples

• 6 apples

• 12 apples

A baker made 15 cookies and wants to pack them into boxes that hold 1/3 of a cookie each. How many boxes does he need?

• 15

• 30

• 60

• 45

There are 20 students in a class, and each student needs 1/5 of a pizza for lunch. How many pizzas should the teacher order?

• 2 pizzas

• 4 pizzas

• 3 pizzas

• 5 pizzas

A gardener has 18 flowers and wants to plant them in rows where each row has 1/2 of a flower. How many rows can he plant?

• 9

• 72

• 18

• 36

If a teacher has 24 pencils and gives each student 1/6 of a pencil, how many students can receive pencils?

• 96

• 48

• 144

• 72

A recipe calls for 10 cups of flour, but you only want to use 1/10 of that amount. How many cups of flour will you use?

• 10 cups

• 1 cup

• 5 cups

• 2 cups

A farmer has 30 eggs and wants to put them in cartons that hold 1/3 of an egg each. How many cartons does he need?

• 75

• 45

• 60

• 90

If a library has 36 books and each shelf can hold 1/4 of a book, how many shelves are needed?

• 72

• 180

• 144

• 36

A toy store has 48 toys and wants to display them in groups of 1/8 of a toy. How many groups can they make?

• 24

• 384

• 96

• 192

If a chef has 50 grams of sugar and uses 1/5 of it for a recipe, how much sugar does he use?

• 10 grams

• 5 grams

• 15 grams

• 20 grams