8. Multiply and divide fractions
8.09 Story problems with multiplying fractions and mixed numbers
Interactive practice questions
Skye is baking bread which calls for $1\frac{3}{8}$138 cups of flour. For each cup of flour, $\frac{3}{4}$34 cups of water are to be used as well.
How much water does the recipe use?
Easy
1min
Danielle takes $4\frac{7}{9}$479 minutes to drive from her home to the local shopping center. She spends $\frac{1}{9}$19 of this time waiting at traffic lights.
Find the number of minutes she spends waiting.
Easy
1min
Uther has $2\frac{2}{5}$225 kg of flour, and needs to use $\frac{1}{5}$15 of this amount in a recipe.
How much flour does the recipe use?
Easy
1min
Emma has $1\frac{5}{6}$156 kg of beads. She shares her beads evenly between $3$3 of her friends, so that they each receive $\frac{1}{3}$13 of the beads.
How many kilograms of beads does each friend receive?
Medium
1min
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