Dividing Whole Numbers & Fractions

What is the value of this expression: 1/6 ÷ 3

• 18

• 1/18

• 1/9

• 9

A recipe for cookies requires 1/5 tablespoon of salt. A container of salt has a total of 10 tablespoons of salt. How many batches of cookies can be made with this container?

• 50

• 15

• 5

• 25

Joe bought 3 cartons of yogurt. He ate 1/6 of a carton of yogurt each day. How many days did it take Joe to eat all the yogurt in the 3 cartons?

• 3

• 9

• 18

• 10

Chuck baked 7 cakes. He cut each cake into equal sized pieces. Each piece was 1/8 of the cake. What was the total number of pieces after Chuck cut the cakes?

• 15

• 56

• 42

• 7

The owner of a snow cone stand used 1/5 gallon of syrup to make 12 cotton candy snow cones. She used the same amount of syrup in each snow cone. How much syrup in gallons was used in each cotton candy snow cone?

• 60

• 12

• 1/60

• 1/12

Toya bought 4 cups of blueberries. She will eat 1/2 cup of blueberries each day. How many days can Toya eat the blueberries before they are gone?

• 8

• 6

• 4

• 2

What is the value of this expression: 1/10 ÷ 38

• 380

• 38

• 1/380

• 1/38

There are 11 pies on a picnic table.

-Each pie is cut into pieces.

-Each piece is 1/6 of the pie.

How many pieces of pie are on the picnic table?

• 5

• 66

• 16

• 54

Mrs. Brown has 1/7 acre of land divided into 5 equal parts. What is the size of each part?

• 1/35

• 35

• 12

• 1/12

Coach Davis has 12 gallons of water to fill buckets for field day.  If each bucket needs ⅓ of a gallon to fill, how many buckets can he fill?

• 3/12 bucket
• 12 and ⅓ buckets
• 36 buckets
• 4 buckets