Fraction Word Problems

Number of problems found: 627

Milk crates
A farmer sells milk in crates that hold 15 bottles. She has 34,125 bottles of milk. How many crates can the farmer fill?
Answers
After the history test, Michaella discovered that the ratio of her correct and incorrect answers is 5: 3. How many correct answers did Michaella have in the test, if she had 6 incorrect answers?
Borrowing bicycle
Jakub lent a bicycle to friends who wanted to ride it. For a three-hour bike ride, Jakub received 2 chocolates. Yup. If you wanted a bike for 2 hours, you had to give Jakub 12 candies. Peter gave Jakub 1 chocolate and 3 candies. How long can Peter ride Ja
A quotient
$fractions_2$ What is the quotient of 3/10 divided by 2/4 as a fraction
A bucket
A bucket has 4 liters of water in it when it is 2/5 full. How much can it hold?
Integer add to fraction
$fractions_1$ 7 is added to the sum of 4/5 and 6/7
Pizza palace
Josh is at Enzo's pizza palace. He can sit at a table with 5 of his friends or at a different table with seven of his friends. The same size pizza is shared equally among the people at each table. At which table should Josh sit to get more pizza? (write a
An electrician
An electrician needs 1 1/3 rolls of electrical wire to wire each room in a house. How many rooms can he wire with 6 2/3 rolls of wire?
Divide in ratio
Line segment AB 12 cm long divide in a ratio of 5: 3. How long are the individual parts?
From a
From a 1 meter ribbon, Ericka cut 2/4 meter for her hat and another 1/4 meter for her bag. How long was the remaining piece?
Library
New books were purchased for the library. Five-eighths were professional books, one-fifth were encyclopedias, and 231 books were dictionaries. How many professional books were there?
Spending
Peter spends 1/5 of his earnings on his rent and he saves 2/7. What fraction of his earnings is left?
The tourist
The tourist walked a quarter of the way on the first day, a third of the rest on the second day, and 20 km on the last day. How many km did he walk in three days?
Simplest form
Find the simplest form of the following expression: 3 to the 2nd power - 1/4 to the 2nd power
Drawing from a hat
When drawing numbers from a hat from 1 to 35, we select random given numbers. What is the probability that the drawn numbers will be divisible by 8 and 2?
Job applicants
Job applicants: three-fourths of applicants had experience for a position. The number that did not have prior experience was 36. How many people applied for the job?
Grandma
We're going to Grandma. We still have 24 km left. How far does Grandma live if we have traveled from the total distance: half, a third, a fifth?
Iron pole
The iron pole is in the ground 2/5 of its length, partly above the ground 1/3 is yellow, and the unpainted section is 6 m long. How long is the entire column?
Ducats
The king divided the ducats to his three sons in a ratio of 2: 5: 4. How many ducats the king divided them if the youngest received 260 ducats, which was the least of all sons.
Tourist route
How long is the tourist route when tourists crossed four-sevenths of the way on foot, crossed the bus twice less than on foot and passed the last 14 kilometers by boat.