Fraction Add, Sub, and Mult WPs

In preparation for a picnic, Simon made a salad with 1/4 of a bag of iceberg lettuce and 5/8 of a bag of romaine lettuce. How many bags of lettuce did Simon use in all?

What operation is this question asking you to do?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

In preparation for a picnic, Simon made a salad with 1/4 of a bag of iceberg lettuce and 5/8 of a bag of romaine lettuce. How many bags of lettuce did Simon use in all?

• 3/8 bag

• 4/8 bag

• 6/8 bag

• 7/8 bag

Vale made cookies. She used 3/4 of a cup of flour and 5/8 of a cup of sugar. How much more flour than sugar did Vale use?

What operation should we use to solve this problem?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

Paula made cookies. She used 3/4 of a cup of flour and 5/8 of a cup of sugar. How much more flour than sugar did Paula use?

• 6/8 cup

• 3/8 cup

• 2/8 cup

• 1/8 cup

Brian had 1/2 of a pizza pie left over from a party. The next day he ate 3/5 of his leftovers. How much pizza did he eat the next day?

Which operation do you need to solve?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

Brian had 1/2 of a pizza pie left over from a party. The next day he ate 3/5 of his leftovers. How much pizza did he eat the next day?

• 4/7 of a pizza pie

• 3/10 of a pizza pie

• 4/5 of a pizza pie

• 3/7 of a pizza pie

Marai and Jayniah made a stir-fry for dinner. They used 1/6 of a pound of bell peppers, 1/3 of a pound of mushrooms, and 1/6 of a pound of snow peas. How many pounds of vegetables did they use in the stir-fry? Answer MUST be written in simplest form.

• 2/3 pound

• 5/6 pound

• 1/3 pound

• 4/6 pound

During a canned food drive, items were sorted into bins. The drive resulted in 1/4 of a bin of soup, 5/12 of a bin of vegetables, and 1/4 of a bin of pasta. Altogether, how many bins would the canned food take up?

• 1 whole bin

• 8/12 bin

• 6/12 bin

• 11/12 bin

Leslie and Greg own neighboring cornfields. Leslie harvested 1/2 acre of corn on Monday and Greg harvested 1/6 of an acre. How many more acres did Leslie harvest than Greg? Answer MUST be in simplest form.

• 4/6 acre

• 2/3 acre

• 1/3 acre

• 5/6 acre

In Ms. Jasper's history class, 1/8 of the students are making videos for their final project and 3/4 are making posters. What fraction of the students are making either a video or posters?

• 5/8 of the students

• 6/8 of the students

• 7/8 of the students

• 8/8 of the students