Adding And Subtracting Fractions

The cafe served pizza for lunch to three fifth grade classes. The cafe made 17 pizzas to be shared by the classes. -Class 1 ate 6 2/3 pizzas. -Class 2 ate 8 1/6 pizzas. How much pizza was left?

• 4 2/6

• 2 1/6

• 14 5/6

• 15 1/6

Wayne exercised for 5/6 of an hour in the morning and 1/3 of an hour in the evening. How much more of an hour did Wayne spend exercising in the morning than in the evening?

• 6/12

• 3/4

• 1/2

• 1/4

What is the value of 1/6 + 1/12 + 2/6=

• 4/12

• 6/12

• 7/12

• 8/12

Trisha bought a carton of orange juice. She drank 1/3 of the carton on Monday and 5/12 of the carton on Tuesday. What fraction of the carton did Trisha drink?

• 1/2

• 3/4

• 2/3

• 5/6

Tracie ran a total of 5 3/4 miles on Saturday and Sunday. She ran 1 5/8 miles on Saturday. How many miles did Tracie run on Sunday?

• 4 1/8

• 3 7/8

• 4 1/4

• 4 1/2

Ms. Lussier washed her dirty clothes over the weekend. She used 1 3/4 scoops of detergent for her white load and 3/8 a scoop of detergent for her color load. How much more laundry detergent did she use in the white load?

• 6/8

• 3/8

• 1 6/8

• 1 3/8

Kristen watched a beetle and a spider on the sidewalk. The beetle crawled 2/3 of a yard and the spider crawled 1/3 of a yard. How much farther did the beetle crawl than the spider?

• 1/3 yard
• 2/3 yard
• 3/6 yard
• 3/3 yard

USE SCRATCH PAPER AND SOLVE THIS MULTI-STEP PROBLEM:

The 5th and 6th Grade Center served pizza on Tuesday. First Lunch Shift ate 2/5 of the pizzas. Second Lunch Shift ate 3/10 of the pizzas. How much pizza was remaining for Third Lunch Shift?

• 3/5

• 15/50

• 5/15

• 2/50

Dylan had a whole cupcake in his lunch bag. He ate 1/4 of it. How much does he have left?

• 1/4
• 1/2
• 1/3
• 3/4

Tim did 1/12 of a load of laundry on Sunday and 1/4 of a load of laundry on Saturday. What fraction of laundry did Tim do in total?

• 2/16 loads done 
• 1/3 loads done 
• 2/3 loads done 
• 2/12 loads done