Fractions of a Set Word Problems

Alisha kept track of the growth of a plant. At the beginning of one week, her plant was 1 7/8 inches tall. The next week, the plant was 2 3/4 inches tall. How many inches did Alisha’s plant grow over the week?

• 1/2

• 7/8

• 1 1/2

• 4 5/8

Snow fell in Newton twice in one day. The town received 3/8 inch of snow in the morning and another 1/2 inch of snow in the afternoon. How many total inches of snow fell in Newton on that day?

• 1/8

• 3/10

• 5/8

• 7/8

Kayla has 3/9 of a pizza and Lille gave her 2/9 of a pizza. How much pizza does Kayla have now?

• 5

• 5/9

• 1/9

• 6/9

How much of the Kit-Kat bar did Doug get to eat?

• 3/4

• 1/4

• 2/4

• None

A batch of oatmeal cookies calls for 3/4 cup of oatmeal. Ellen is making 4 1/2 batches of cookies. How many cups of oatmeal will she need?

• 3

• 3  1/8

• 3  3/8

• 4   4/6

There are seven gloves in the lost & found box. There are two blue gloves, three green gloves, one black glove, and one brown glove. What fraction of the gloves are black?

• 1/7

• 2/7

• 3/7

• 6/7

Gene ate 2/8 of the pizza pie. Tommy ate 1/8 of the pizza pie. What fraction of the pizza pie was eaten altogether?

• 5/8

• 4/8 or 1/2

• 2/8 or 1/4

• 3/8

Denis has 100 baseball cards. 1/4 of them are new. How many of them are not new?

• 133

• 1/3

• 25

• 75

The Valley High School printed 445 tickets for the school play in Spring.<\/p>

3/5 of the tickets were sold out by January.<\/p>

How many tickets remain to be sold?<\/p>

(Hint: this is a 2-step word problem)<\/p>

• 200 tickets<\/p>

• 178 tickets<\/p>

• 145 tickets<\/p>

• 175 tickets<\/p>

Mrs. Corbett signed 1/2 of all the holiday cards and Mr. Corbett signed 3/8 of all of them. Mrs. Smith will sign the rest of them.

If there were 32 cards in all, how many are left to be signed by Mrs. Smith?

• 4 cards

• 12 cards

• 16 cards

• 28 cards