Sunday, May 24, 2015

Fraction Word Problems



1. There are 24 hours in a day and scientists tell us that we should sleep for 3/8 of the day. How much time should we spend sleeping?

2. The National History Museum has a collection toy 125 dinosaurs. George has collected 3/5 of this amount. How many dinosaurs has George collected?

3. Peter is 160cm tall and his brother Tom is 7/8 as tall as him. How tall is Tom?

4. Skateboards cost £36 each in my local store. The shopkeeper says if I buy one I can buy another for only 7/9 of the normal price. How much would a second skateboard cost?

5.On the Maths worksheet, there were 72 word problems to solve. Students had to work in pairs.

John did 2/3 and Mark did 1/4 of the problems.

a. How many problems did they do in total?
b. How many problems did each student solve? 

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