FRACTIONS OF QUANTITIES WORD PROBLEMS WORKSHEET

Problem 1 :

What fraction of 1 meter is 20 cm ?

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Problem 2 :

State what fraction of 1 week in 2 days ?

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Problem 3 :

Gordon spent $3 on a drink and $4 on chocolates. what fraction of $10 did he spend ?

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Problem 4 :

Jenny scored 27 correct answers in her test of 40 questions. What fraction of her answers were incorrect.

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Problem 5 :

Linda had a bag of 9 apples. She ate 3 and she fed 2 others to her horse. What fraction of her apples remain?

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Problem 6 :

James was travelling a journey of 420 km. His car broke down after 280 km. What fraction of his journey did he still have to travel?

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Problem 6 :

Tran started his homework at 8:15 pm and completed it at 9:08 pm. If he had allowed one hour to do his homework, what fraction of that time did he use?

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Problem 7 :

Vijay had 95 cm of rope. He cut 3 pieces from it, each 30 cm long. What fraction of the rope remained?

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Problem 8 :

Viktor only won one third of the games of tennis that he played for his school team. If he played 15 games, how many did he win?

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Problem 9 :

One fifth of the students at a school were absent because of chicken pox. If there were 245 students in the school, how many were absent?

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Problem 10 :

One sixth of the cars from an assembly line were painted white. If 222 cars came from the assembly line, how many were painted white?

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