Dividing Fractions Word Problems

It is spaghetti night at Monica's house! She has 1/2 cup of grated cheese to sprinkle equally over 3 bowls of spaghetti. How many cups of cheese does she put in each bowl?

• 1/2

• 1/6

• 1/12

• 2

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

CCSS.5.NF.B.7

Nolan is knitting hats for his friends. He has 2 balls of yarn. He uses 1/3 of a ball for each hat. How many hats can Nolan make?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

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CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

At the Middletown Middle School fun run, teams compete in a relay race. Each person runs 1/2

of a mile, and the race is 2 miles long. How many people are on each team?

• 1/4

• 2

• 6

• 4

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

After a snowball fight, Kenneth made 4 mugs of hot chocolate to help everyone warm up. He had 1/2

of a cup of marshmallows and put the same amount in each mug. How many cups of marshmallows did Kenneth put in each mug of hot chocolate?

• 8

• 1/8

• 1/2

• 1/16

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CCSS.5.NF.A.2

CCSS.5.NF.B.3

CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

At Soup-er Hero's Soup Shop, they serve 2 different kinds of soup for lunch. Both soups have black beans in them. There is a 1/2-pound bag of black beans in the pantry to split equally between the soups. How many pounds of black beans go into each soup?

• 1/8

• 1

• 1/3

• 1/4

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CCSS.5.NF.A.2

CCSS.5.NF.B.3

Carly is helping refill empty ketchup bottles at her uncle's diner. Each bottle can hold 1/9 of a gallon of ketchup. She has a huge container with 2 gallons of ketchup in it. How many bottles can she fill?

• 18

• 17

• 16

• 15

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

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CCSS.5.NF.B.6

Latrell is making chocolate chip pancakes for his whole family. He wants to make sure that there is 1/4 of a cup of chocolate chips in each pancake. He has a 5-cup bag of chocolate chips. How many pancakes can Latrell make?

• 17

• 18

• 19

• 20

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.5.NF.B.3

Kelsey is adding sprinkles to the top of some ice cream sundaes she made for her parents. She has 1/8 of a cup of sprinkles to use equally over 2 sundaes. How many cups of sprinkles does she put on each sundae?

• 1/5

• 1/8

• 1/16

• 16

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

CCSS.5.NF.B.7

Diego has 6 cups of flour to use for making biscuits. Each biscuit needs 1/3 of a cup of flour. How many biscuits can Diego make?

• 15

• 16

• 17

• 18

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.6