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8.12 Story problems with dividing fractions and whole numbers

Interactive practice questions

A $\frac{1}{2}$12 L bottle of soda is poured equally into $5$5 cups.

What is the liquid volume of soda in each cup?

Easy
1min

$4$4 people share a $\frac{1}{5}$15 kg block of chocolate.

How much chocolate does each person get?

Easy
1min

Dave bakes a batch of $6$6 cupcakes. He uses $\frac{1}{3}$13 of a kilogram of flour in the recipe.

How much flour is there in each cupcake?

Medium
1min

A farmer has a field which is $\frac{1}{10}$110 of a mile long. She creates fencing to divide the field into $3$3 animal pens of equal length.

How long is each pen, in miles?

Medium
1min
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Outcomes

5.NF.7

Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions. Use strategies to divide fractions by reasoning about the relationship between multiplication and division. Division of a fraction by a fraction is not a requirement at this grade.

5.NF.7.a

Interpret division of a unit fraction by a non-zero whole number, and compute such quotients.

5.NF.7.b

Interpret division of a whole number by a unit fraction, and compute such quotients.

5.NF.7.c

Solve real world problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero whole numbers and division of whole numbers by unit fractions, for example, by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.

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