Fraction and Ratio Word Problems

This video tutorial covers various applications of fractions, including using fractions in recipes, comparing weights of animals, calculating distances walked, and representing fractions with tape diagrams. It also explores finding groups of fractions in quantities and representing equations with fractions. The lesson aims to enhance understanding of fractions in practical scenarios.

If a recipe requires half a pound of flour per batch, how many batches can you make with one pound of flour?

• Four batches

• Three batches

• Two batches

• One batch

With three-fourths of a pound of flour, how many batches can be made?

• Two and a half batches

• One batch

• One and a half batches

• Two batches

Whiskers the cat weighs two and two-thirds kilograms. How many times as heavy as Piglio, who weighs four kilograms, is Whiskers?

• Two-thirds

• One

• One-third

• One and a half

Piglio is four kilograms. How many times as heavy as Whiskers, who weighs two and two-thirds kilograms, is Piglio?

• Two and a half

• Two

• One and a half

• One

Andre has walked one-third of a kilometer towards a festival that is one and five-eighths kilometers away. What fraction of the trip has he completed?

• One-fifth

• One-fourth

• One-sixth

• One-eighth

What fraction of two and a half is equivalent to four-fifths?

• Fourteen twenty-fifths

• Eight twenty-fifths

• Twelve twenty-fifths

• Ten twenty-fifths

How many groups of three-fourths are there in eleven-fourths?

• Three

• Three and two-thirds

• Two and a half

• Four

In six and a half, how many groups of three-fourths can be found?

• Nine

• Eight and two-thirds

• Seven

• Eight

Which equation represents the number of two-sevenths in four?

• Two-sevenths times four

• Two-sevenths divided by four

• Four times two-sevenths

• Four divided by two-sevenths

How many two-sevenths are there in four?

• Fourteen

• Thirty-five

• Twenty

• Twenty-eight