Fraction Word Problems Identify Multiply or Divide

A cook baked 5 large pizzas. If he cuts each pizza into slices of eighths, how many slices will he have in total?

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Jakob has 1/4 of a watermelon. If he and two friends share it equally, what portion of the whole watermelon will each person get?

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Hannah bought 12 pens. She took 2/3 of the pens to school. How many pens did she take to school?

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Selena has 6 inches of tape to attach to photos to her display board. If she cuts the tape into 1/2 inch pieces, how many pieces will she have?

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Sal made a pepperoni pizza. 3/4 of it was eaten. How much pizza was eaten?

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Joseph brought in 1 1/2 gallons of chocolate milk. He wanted to split it equally among his 22 classmates. How much milk will each student get?

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Justin fed his cat a 1/2 cup of food every day. He has 5 cups of cat food left. How many days will the cat food last?

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It takes 2/3 cups of flour to make a batch of brownies. If Caroline has 4 1/2 cups of flour, how many batches of brownies can she make?

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Lilly had 50 notebooks in her collection. 1/3 of her notebooks were teal? How many notebooks were teal?

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