Fractions - math word problems

  1. Garden
    garden_18 The rectangular garden has dimensions of 27 m and 30 m. Peter and Katka split it in a ratio of 4:5. How many square meters did Katkin measure part of the garden?
  2. Water 31
    water3_6 Richard takes 3 1/6 liters of water before noon and 2 3/5 liters of water after noon. How many litres of water does Richard consume a day ?
  3. Orchard
    jablone_8 One-eighth of the trees in the fruit plant in winter froze and one-twelfth of damaged disease and pests. Healthy trees remained 152. Is it enough to supply 35 trees to restore the original number of trees in the orchard?
  4. Savings
    savings Eva borrowed 1/3 of her savings to her brother, 1/2 of savings spent in the store and 7 euros left. How much did she save?
  5. Pupil age
    age_6 I am a pupil of the primary school, I spent 1/4 of my age on the exercise of parents with children, 1/3 on drawing, 1/6 on flute. I did not have a ring for the first three years of my life and never went to two rings at once. How old am I?
  6. Lemonade
    lemonade How many 1/4 cup servings are in 2 and 1/3 cups of lemonade?
  7. Cakes
    buhty_1 1/3 poppy cake, 1/3 apple, 15 pieces of cheese. How many are totally cakes?
  8. The pole
    tlf_pillar The telegraph pole is supported by a 4 m bullet at 3/4 of its height, the end of which is at a distance 2.5 m from the pole post. Calculate the height of the telegraph pole.
  9. Rainfall
    rain_6 A rectangular garden of 25m in length and width 20m in width fall 4mm of water. Express by a fraction in basic form what part of the 60-hectolitre tank we would fill with this water.
  10. Fraction and a decimal
    numbs_11 Write as a fraction and a decimal. One and two plus three and five hundredths
  11. Seamstress
    textiles_2 The seamstress cut the fabric into 3 parts. The first part was the eighth fabric, the second part was three-fifths of the fabric and the third part had a length of 66 cm. Calculate the original length of the fabric.
  12. Equation 15
    eq222_4 Solve equation with variables on both sides:
  13. Brick weight
    bricks_2 Half the weight of a brick plus 20 pounds is equal to 1/3 the weight of the brick plus 30 pounds. How much does the brick weigh?
  14. Mixed2improper
    zlomky_8 Write the mixed number as an improper fraction. 166 2/3
  15. Pamela
    penize_48 Lara Pamela spends her salary of 3000 for food, clothing, recreation and savings, which are in the ratio of 48:20:15:37, respectively. How much does he spend for savings?
  16. Red balls
    gule_3 In the bag there are 3 red, 12 blue and 8 green balls. How many red balls we must be attached to the bag if we want the probability of pulling out the red balls was 20%?
  17. Tailor 5
    textiles_1 A tailor uses 13/4m of cloth to stitch a skirt. How many metres of cloth is needed to stitch 16 skirts?
  18. Icecreams
    zmrzlina_4 Karthik bought 30 icecreams for his birthday .2/5 of them are chocolate icecreams. Find the number of chocolate icecreams he bought?
  19. Pears
    hrusky_4 There were pears in the basket, I took two-fifths of them, and left six in the basket. How many pears did I take?
  20. Boys and girls
    children_16 There are 28 girls in the hall. 5/7 of all children are boys. How many children and how many boys are there?

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