πagarwalmath · 5th grade · Common Core 5.NF.B.6
🍅 Multiplying fraction stories
Fraction multiplication story problems
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A recipe uses 1 2/3 cups of flour. Zoe makes 1/2 of the recipe. How much flour is that?
Answer: ______________ cups
2Priya's garden is 1 1/3 meters long and 2/3 meter wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
34/5 of Leo's garden is vegetables. 1/6 of the vegetable part is tomatoes. What fraction of the whole garden is tomatoes?
Answer: ______________ of the garden
4Lily'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
5Each shelf Leo builds is 3 1/5 feet long. How many feet of wood for 2 shelves?
Answer: ______________ feet
6Maya's garden is 2 1/2 meters long and 1 1/4 meters wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
71/3 of Aiden's garden is vegetables. 1/2 of the vegetable part is tomatoes. What fraction of the whole garden is tomatoes?
Answer: ______________ of the garden
8Each shelf Aiden builds is 3 1/2 feet long. How many feet of wood for 4 shelves?
Answer: ______________ feet
9Each shelf Omar builds is 3 3/5 feet long. How many feet of wood for 2 shelves?
Answer: ______________ feet
10A recipe uses 1 1/2 cups of flour. Aiden makes 3/4 of the recipe. How much flour is that?
Answer: ______________ cups
11A recipe uses 2 3/4 cups of flour. Omar makes 1/4 of the recipe. How much flour is that?
Answer: ______________ cups
12Aiden's garden is 1 1/4 meters long and 1/3 meter wide. Each big square in the picture is 1 square meter. What is the area of the garden?
Answer: ______________ square meters
Answer key: Multiplying fraction stories
- 1. 5/6 cups
- 2. 8/9 square meters
- 3. 2/15 of the garden
- 4. 7/8 square meters
- 5. 32/5 feet
- 6. 3 1/8 square meters
- 7. 1/6 of the garden
- 8. 14 feet
- 9. 36/5 feet
- 10. 1 1/8 cups
- 11. 11/16 cups
- 12. 5/12 square meters
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