1. Which of the following is not a fraction equivalent to 3/4?

A. 6/8 B. 9/12 C. 12/18

D. 21/28 E. 27/36

2. Solve: 0.25 + 0.65

A. 1/2 B. 9/10 C. 4/7

D. 2/9 E. 5/16

3. Which of the following statements is false?

A. In the fraction ½, one is the numerator. B. When 4.89 is rounded to the ones place, the answer is 5. C. Ten thousandths place is located 5 places to the right of the decimal D. 7/6 is described as an improper fraction.

E. 331/3 % is equivalent to

4. Find the square of 25/9

A. 5/3 B. 3/5 C. 7 58/81

D. 15/2 E. 650/81

5. Sarah needs to make a cake and some cookies. The cake requires 3/8 cup of sugar and the cookies require 3/5 cup of sugar. Sarah has 15/16 cups of sugar. Does she have enough sugar, or how much more does she need?

A. She has enough sugar. B. She needs 1/8 of a cup of sugar. C. She needs 3/80 of a cup of sugar. D. She needs 4/19 of a cup of sugar. E. She needs 1/9 of a cup of sugar.

6. There are 8 ounces in a 1/2 pound. How many ounces are in 7 3/4 lbs?

A. 12 ounces B. 86 ounces C. 119 ounces

D. 124 ounces E. 138 ounces

7. If the value of x and y in the following fraction are both tripled, how does the value of the fraction change? XZ Y

A. increases by half B. decreases by half C. triples

D. doubles E. remains the same

8. Which of the following fractions is the equivalent of 0.5%

A. 1/20 B. 1/200 C. 1/2000

D. 1/5 E. 1/50

Fractions Problem Solving Questions- 1

1. Order the following fractions from the smallest to the largest:

½, ¾, ¼, ⅛, ⅞,

2. Sarah has 348 gel pens. She gives ¾ of them away. How many does she give away?

3. Rachael has 5 packets of 20 biscuits. She puts three tenths of them on a plate. How many biscuits are on the plate?

4. James buys 65 sweets. He eats 4/5 of them. How many does he have left?

5. Robert has 816 marbles. He puts ⅜ of them in his pocket for a game. How many does he put in his pocket?

6. A small bag of flour is 3kg and a large bag is 9kg. What fraction of the large bag is the small bag?

7. I have £10. I give £6 to my friend Lucy. What fraction of £10 have I given her?

8. What fraction of 1 meter is 25cm?

9. What fraction of £2 is 40p?

10. I have 608 sweets I eat three quarters of them. How many have I eaten?

11. 4/7 of the birthday cake was eaten on your birthday. The next day your dad ate 1/2 of what was left. You get to finish the cake, how much is left?

12. The grocery store parking lot will hold 1000 vehicles. 2/5 of the parking spaces are for cars. When you went to buy groceries, there were 200 cars and some trucks in the parking lot. The parking lot was 3/4 full. How many trucks were in it?

13. Justin is making snowballs to build a fort on the winter break. Justin can build 15 snowballs in an hour but 2 snowballs melt every 15 minutes. How long will it take him to build 210 snowballs?

14. The recipe for mint chocolate ice cream requires 2 1/4 cups of cream for 5 people. You need ice cream for 8 people. How much cream will you need?

15. Sam gave Jen 1/2 of his crayons. Jen ate 1/2 of the crayons. and gave the rest to Kyle. Kyle kept 8 of the crayons. and gave the last 10 to Kim. How many crayons. did Jen eat?

16. Jeff has 1/2 pizza left in the fridge. At breakfast he at 1/3 of it. What fraction of the original pizza does he have left for lunch?

17. 5 hockey pucks and three hockey sticks cost $23. 5 hockey pucks and 1 hockey stick cost $20. How much does 1 hockey puck cost?

18. This year, your brother Jack will be 2 years from being twice as old as your sister Jen. The sum of Jack’s age and three times Jen’s age is 66. How old is Jen?

19. Parents donated fudge for the fund raiser for your classroom. 40 pounds of chocolate fudge sold for $2.15 per pound and vanilla fudge sold for $190. per pound. Your class made $158.20. How many pounds of fudge were sold?

20. One of your friends is heading north for a holiday and the other friend is heading south. If their destinies are 1029 miles apart and one car is traveling at 45 miles per hour and the other car is traveling at 53 miles per hour. How many hours before the two cars pass each other?

21. Dana needs 300 pickets for her colorful picket fence. She wants equal amounts of each of her 4 selected colors. She already has 32 red, 26 green, 9 yellow and no blue. How many more of each color does Dana need to buy? If the bulbs cost 25 cents and you get 20% off if you purchase 50 or more of the same color and 30% off if you purchase 60 or more of one color, how much does Dana need to spend? Show your work.