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Answer:
Martha spent of her allowance on food and shopping. What fraction of her allowance had she left?
Solution:
She had of her allowance left.
Example:
of a group of children were girls. If there were 24 girls, how many children were there in the group?
Solution:
fraction word problems
3 units = 24
1 unit = 24 ÷ 3 = 8
5 units = 5 × 8 = 40
There were 40 children in the group.
Example:
Sam had 120 teddy bears in his toy store. He sold of them at $12 each. How much did he receive?
Solution:
Step 1: Find the number of teddy bears sold.
He sold 80 teddy bears.
Step 2: Find how much money he received.
80 × 12 = 960
He received $960.
Bar Modeling With Fractions
Examples:
Grace thought that a plane journey would take 7/10 hr but the actual journey took 1/5 hr longer. How long did the actual journey take?
Timothy took 2/3 hr to paint a portrait. This was 1/3 hr shorter than the time he took to paint scenery. How long did he take to paint scenery?
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How To Solve Real World Problems Involving Multiplication Of Fractions By Using Visual Fraction Models Or Equations To Represent The Problem?
Examples:
At the animal shelter 4/6 of the animals are cats. Of the cats 1/2 are male. What fraction of the animals at the shelter are male cats?
A taco recipe called for 2/3 cup of cheese per taco. If Andrew wanted to make 3 tacos, how much cheese would he need?
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How To Solve Word Problems Using Tape Diagrams And Fraction-By-Fraction Multiplication?
Examples:
Ethan is icing 30 cupcakes. He spreads mint icing on 1/5 of the cupcakes and chocolate on 1/2 of the remaining cupcakes. The rest will get vanilla frosting. How many cupcakes have vanilla frosting?
Maddox puts 1/4 of her lawn-mowing money in savings and uses 1/2 of the remaining money to pay back her sister. If she has $15 left, how much did she have at first?
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