Fractions Word Problem

The Valley High School printed 445 tickets for the school play in Spring.

3/5 of the tickets were sold out by January.

How many tickets remain to be sold?

(Hint: this is a 2-step word problem)

• 200 tickets

• 178 tickets

• 145 tickets

• 175 tickets

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

What multiplication problem is shown by this model?

• 2/3 x 2

• 2/3 x 6

• 2/3 x 3

• 1 2/8

• 1 4/8

• 3 5/8

• 4 3/8

Daniela fills a container with soil by using a bowl. The bowl holds 3/4 cup of soil. Daniela uses 13 full bowls of soil to fill the container. How many cups of soil does the container hold?

• 39/4

• 36/3

• 38/4

• 13/4

Mrs. Angelo is making cookies for 4th grade. The recipe calls for 2/4 cup of sugar for each batch. She is making 8 batches. How much sugar will she need?

• 16/4 or 4

• 18/4 or 4 2/4

• 8/8 or 1

• 8/4 or 2

Make sure your answer is in the form of a mixed number
1/5 × 7 

• 1 2/5

• 7/5

• 7/35

• 1 2/35

Which word problem will match with this expression 2 x 3/6

• MD ran 3/6 of a mile on 2 days of the week.

• MD ran 3/6 of a mile

• MD ran for 2 days

What is the answer to this problem?

• 5 6/8

• 4

• 14/8

What is the answer to 2/3 x 5  in a mixed number?

• 7/3 = 2 1/3

• 10/3 = 3 1/3

• 2/15

• 7/8