Fraction Friday, April 28

At the corner candy store 5/7 of the gum on the shelves is cherry flavored. The store has 175 packs of gum. How many packs of gum are cherry flavored?

Donnie is completely covering a rectangular wall with tiles. The wall is5 1/2 feet long and 7 feet wide. What is the area of the rectangular wall Donnie is covering?

Isa is using a 3/4 cup container to fill a bucket with water. How many cups of water will Isa pour into the bucket if she fills the container 18 times?

At Sarah’s party, the girls ate 3 3/4, and the boys ate 4 7/8 pizzas. How much pizza was eaten at the party?

Tia ran 7/8 mile, turned left, ran 1 1/4 miles, turned right, ran 1 5/6 miles, and stopped. Which method would provide the most reasonable estimate of the total distance, in miles, that Tia ran?

Brad is planting flowers in his garden. He plants 1/3 of the garden with tulips and 1/2 of the garden with roses. How much of the garden does he have left to plant daffodils?

Megan decorated 2/3 of the bulletin board. John decorated 1/6 of the bulletin board. How much more of the bulletin board did Megan decorate than John?

Jan need 1/2 cup of milk to make a batch of pancakes. Jan has a quart of milk, which is 4 cups of milk. How many batches of pancakes could Jan make with this amount of milk?

Three friends were making an art project. They had 1/2 of a container of clay. If the friends shared the clay equally, how much of the original container of clay did they each use?

Two-fifths of the students in Joey’s class are boys. If 1/3 of the boys are wearing sneakers, what fraction of the students are boys wearing sneakers?