Fractions Word Problem

of the marbles in a box were black and the rest were white. Akiko put in some more black marbles. Now, of the marbles are white. How many black marbles did Akiko put in?

Jacob has 4 1/4 pizzas. He ate 2/3 of the pizzas. How many pizzas does he have left?

• 51/8 or 6 3/8

• 4 11/12

• 2 5/6

• 3 7/12 or 43/12

Allie needs 3/4 cup of ketchup for a meatloaf recipe. She has an almost empty bottle which contains 1/4 cup of ketchup, another two bottles with 1/3 cup of ketchup in each bottle. Does she have enough for the recipe? How much does she have total?

• yes, 11/12 cup

• yes, 1 cup

• no, 2/3 cup

• no, 1/2 cup

You have 3/4 of a bag of dog food. You have one week you have to feed your dog the bag of food. How much do you feed him each day?

• 3/28

• 21/4

• 28/3

• 7/3

Lily had 1/6 of a cake left over from her brothers birthday party. If she split the leftover cake evenly between 3 people how much of the cake would each person get?

• 1/2

• 18

• 1/18

• 1/12

Allie has 2/3 of a candy bar and wants to split it among two people. How much of the candy bar do they each get?

• 1/3

• 1 1/3

• 1/6

• 1/5

Lily had a dozen cupcakes. Kylie asked for 1/2 of them but Lily said no. When lily left, Kylie took 1/2 anyway. How many cupcakes did Kylie take?

• 1/2

• 2

• 1 1/2

• 6

Wyatt had 1/3 of a steak and split it with his dad. How much steak did Wyatt’s dad eat?

• 2/3

• 1/6

• 1/2

• 1/18

Miss Marsh was baking cookies and wanted to triple the batch. One batch calls for 2/3 cup of sugar. How many cups of sugar will she use for all three batches?

• 1 1/3 cups

• 2/9 cup

• 3 cups

• 2 cups