Adding and Subtracting Fractions Word Problems
1. You give 1/3 of a pan of brownies to Susan and 1/6 of the pan of brownies to Patrick.
How much of the pan of brownies did you give
away?
2. Pam walks 7/8 of a mile to school. Paul walks 1/2 of a mile to school. How much
farther does Pam walk than Paul?
3. You go out for a long walk. You walk 3/4 mile and then sit down to take
a rest. Then you walk 3/8 of a mile. How far did you walk altogether?
4. Jackie has 1/3 of a Hershey bar. Steven has 4/12 of a Hershey bar. How much do
they have together?
5. A pitcher contains 2 3/4 pints of orange juice. After you pour 5/8 of a pint into a glass,
how much is left in the pitcher?
6. Susan swims a race in 29 3/10 seconds. Patty swims the race in 33 9/10 seconds.
How much faster was Susan than Patty?
Dividing Fractions Word Problems
1. You have 2/4 of a pizza and you want to share it equally between 2 people. How
much of the pizza does each person get?
2. A baker is making cakes for a big party. She uses 1/4 cup of oil for each cake. How
many cakes can she make if she has a bottle of oil that has 6 cups in it?
3. How many 1/2 cup servings are in a package of cheese that contains 5 1/4 cups
altogether?
4. The serving size for the granola that Ted likes to eat for breakfast is 3/4 cup. How
many servings are there in a box that holds 13 cups?
5. Mrs. Murphy's class is making pillow cases. Each pillow case uses 3/4 of a yard of
fabric. How many pillow cases can they make out of 12 1/2 yards of fabric?
Mixed Practice with Fractions
1. Of the 95 children in 6th grade, 3/5 went to holiday parties. How many students went
to holiday parties in all?
2. Amy has 72 sweets in a bag. She keeps of them for herself and shares the rest
with friends. How many sweets will she give to her friends?
3. 30 people watched the soccer game last night. Tickets cost $2.75 each. Half of these
fans bought a program at $1.50 each. How much money was collected altogether?
Multiplying Fractions Word Problems
1. A dime is 1/2 inch wide. If you put 5 dimes end to end, how long would they be from
beginning to end?
2. You have 8 donuts and you want to give 1/4 of them to a friend. How
many donuts would your friend get?
3. Five friends buy a package of 12 cookies and want to share them equally. Each
friend will get 1/5 of the cookies. How much will each
friend get?
GCF and LCM Word Problems
1. At the gym, Hillary swims every 6 days, runs every 4 days and cycles every 16 days.
If she did all three activities today, in how many days will she do all three activities
again on the same day?
2. Oscar needs to ship 14 rock CDs, 12 classical CDs, and 8 pop CDs. He can pack
only one type of CD in each box and he must pack the same number of CDs in each
box. What is the greatest number of CDs Oscar can pack in each box?
3. I want to plant 45 sunflower plants, 81 corn plants and 63 tomato plants in my
garden. If I put the same number of plants in each row and each row has only one
type of plant, what is the greatest number of plants I can put in one row?
4. A radio station is having a promotion in which every 12th caller receives a free
concert ticket and every 15th caller receives a limo ride. Which caller will be the first
one to win both?
5. Magellan has decided to make party baskets for the fund raiser. Balloons are sold in
bags of 20, party horns are sold in bags of 10, and there are 8 candy bars in a
package. How many of each should he buy so there are an equal number of
balloons, horns and candy bars in each basket?
Multiplying Decimals Word Problems
1. Johnny makes $4.75 per hour at his work. If he works 6 hours, how much money will
he earn?
2. Tinas cat weighs 2.6 kilograms. Her dog weighs 4 times as much as her cat. How
much does her dog weigh in kilograms?
3. Carrie likes to buy t-shirts at the local clothing store. They cost $9.95 each. One day,
she bought 25 t-shirts. How much money did she spend?
Mixed Practice
1. Mrs. Hilt wants to buy a television that regularly costs $600. If the sale
price is 20% off the regular price, what was the sale price?
2. City A received 24 1/2 inches of snow, City B received 20 2/5 inches of
snow, and City C received 17 3/10 inches of snow. The meteorologist
lost the data for City D, however she knows the total for all 4 cities is 93
inches. How much snow did City D receive?
3. The recipe Mrs. Hilt is using calls for 2 1/3 cups of flour. She only has a
container that holds 1/3 of a cup. How many times should she fill the
container with flour?
4. Mrs. Hilt traveled 21,120 feet. How many miles did she travel?
5. Mrs. Hilt owns a house on a lot shaped like a rectangle. The perimeter
of the lot is 60 feet. What is the length and the width of the lot?
6. Mrs. Hilt bought 15 books. She paid $11 for each book. She later sold
all 15 books for $25 each. What is the difference between the total
amount of money Mrs. Hilt sold the books for and the total amount of
money she paid for the books?
7. Mrs. Hilt collected 1,003 nickels in a jar. She went to the bank to cash
them in. How much money did the bank give Mrs. Hilt?
