πagarwalmath · 5th grade · Common Core 5.NF.B.6
🍅 Multiplying fraction stories
Fraction multiplication story problems
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A recipe uses 3 1/5 cups of flour. Maya makes 1/4 of the recipe. How much flour is that?
Answer: ______________ cups
2A recipe uses 1 1/4 cups of flour. Aiden makes 1/3 of the recipe. How much flour is that?
Answer: ______________ cups
3A recipe uses 2 2/3 cups of flour. Leo makes 2/6 of the recipe. How much flour is that?
Answer: ______________ cups
4Zoe's garden is 2 3/4 meters long and 1/2 meter wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
5Zoe's garden is 2 1/2 meters long and 1 1/3 meters wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
6Each shelf Zoe builds is 1 1/2 feet long. How many feet of wood for 5 shelves?
Answer: ______________ feet
7A recipe uses 3 2/3 cups of flour. Aiden makes 2/3 of the recipe. How much flour is that?
Answer: ______________ cups
8Leo's garden is 1 3/4 meters long and 1/2 meter wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
91/5 of Aiden's garden is vegetables. 1/6 of the vegetable part is tomatoes. What fraction of the whole garden is tomatoes?
Answer: ______________ of the garden
10Sam's garden is 2 1/3 meters long and 1 1/3 meters wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
11Lily's garden is 1 1/2 meters long and 1 2/3 meters wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
123/4 of Leo's garden is vegetables. 1/3 of the vegetable part is tomatoes. What fraction of the whole garden is tomatoes?
Answer: ______________ of the garden
Answer key: Multiplying fraction stories
- 1. 4/5 cups
- 2. 5/12 cups
- 3. 8/9 cups
- 4. 1 3/8 square meters
- 5. 3 1/3 square meters
- 6. 15/2 feet
- 7. 2 4/9 cups
- 8. 7/8 square meters
- 9. 1/30 of the garden
- 10. 3 1/9 square meters
- 11. 2 1/2 square meters
- 12. 1/4 of the garden
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