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Mathematics
5th
grade
Adding and Subtracting Fractions Word Problems
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Kayla ate 3/12 of a watermelon. Jordyn ate 1/12 of the watermelon. Then April ate 1/4 of the watermelon. How much of the watermelon did they eat?
6/12
7/36
4/12
7/12
- 2. Multiple Choice
Daniel watched a beetle and a spider on the sidewalk. The beetle crawled 1/2 of a yard and the spider crawled 1/8 of a yard. How much farther did the beetle crawl than the spider?
1/4
3/8
1/2
5/8
- 3. Multiple Choice
Carefully following a recipe to make brownies, Ben used exactly 5/8 of a cup of oil and 3/4 of a cup of water. How many cups of liquid did Ben use in all?
1/8
2/3
1 1/2
1 3/8
- 4. Multiple Choice
Robert made a fruit salad with 11/12 of a pound of melon and 1/6 of a pound of berries. How many pounds of fruit did Robert use in all?
1 1/12
3/4
2/3
1 1/2
- 5. Multiple Choice
Pam walks 3/4 of a mile to school. Paul walks 1/8 of a mile to school. How much farther does Pam walk than Paul?
5/8
4/8
1 3/8
3/4
- 6. Multiple Choice
After dinner, Joe and his family eat 1/2 of Joe's birthday cake. Then, Joe eats another 1/8 of the cake for breakfast the following morning and his brother eats 1/4 of it. How much of the cake has been eaten?
1 1/8
7/8
1
9/16
- 7. Multiple Choice
You give 1/3 of a pan of brownies to Mr. Nix and 1/6 of a pan of brownies to your teacher. How much of the pan of brownies did you give away?
2/6 of the pan
1/6 of the pan
1/2 of the pan
1/3 of the pan
- 8. Multiple Choice
The fifth grade math teachers ordered pizza for lunch. Mrs. Dombkowski ate 1/3 of the pizza. Ms. Chaney ate 5/12 of the pizza. How much more pizza did Ms. Chaney eat than Mrs. Dombkowski?
1/4
2/3
4/6
1/12
- 9. Multiple Choice
The fifth grade classes collected 5/10 of the school's canned goods on Monday, 1/5 on Tuesday, and 45/100 on Wednesday. How much of the school's canned goods did the fifth grade collect in all?
1 3/20
115/100
1 15/100
75/100
- 10. Multiple Choice
Charlotte received 7/10 inches of rain on Monday. On Tuesday it rained an additional 2/5 inches. How many more inches did it rain on Monday than on Tuesday?
3/10
1/5
6/10
2/5
- 11. Multiple Choice
Nathan collected 5/6 of a carton of eggs on Saturday and 8/12 on Sunday. How many eggs did he collect on both days?
18/12
9/6
1 1/2
1 3/6
- 12. Multiple Choice
Mrs. O'Hare bought a cake for the teachers of Palisades Park Elementary. The teachers ate 4/10 of the cake before lunch, 1/5 after lunch, and 12/100 after school. How much of the cake got eaten during the day?
8/10
72/100
36/50
18/25
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