Two-Step Fraction Word Problems

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Two-Step Fraction Word Problems

1) Jill had 3 full pans of brownies. Each pan made 10 brownies. She gave 3 of the brownies to

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her friends. How many brownies did Jill give away?

2) Erin walked 3 miles each day for 8 days. On the 9th day, she walked 11 miles. How many

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total miles did Erin walk?

3) A jug of drinking water contained 12 gallons. If 5 gallon is drunk each day, how much

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water was left in the jug after 2 days?

4) Mia has 24 yards of ribbon. She gave 10 yards to her sister. Mia now wants to work on a project that requires 2 1 yards of ribbon per project. What is the greatest number of

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projects that Mia can complete with this ribbon?

5) Paul spent 1/4 of his money on a food and another 3/10 of his money on soda. If he started with $5 how much of his money is left?

6) Sally has a piece of cloth. She used 1/3 of a foot of the cloth to make a pillow cover and another 4/7 of a foot of the cloth to make a tablecloth. If Sally started with 2 feet of cloth, how much cloth does she has remaining?

7) A container is 1/3 full of water and 1/4 full of oil. What fraction of the container is empty?

8) Kathy had $10 and gave half of it to her brother. She then gave a third of the remaining amount to a friend. How much money will Kathy have left?

9) Carl used 10 2/9 of an inch of string to tie a parcel and another 5 1/4 of an inch of string to tie a box, how much string is left if he started with 20 inches?

10) A box of chocolates includes 24 chocolates. If ? contain nuts, how many chocolates do not contain nuts? Determine the number, not the fraction.

HOMEWORK

1) You are eating 3 cup of ice cream, 1 cup of chocolate syrup, and one sixteenths cup of

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cherries. How many (total) cups is your dessert?

2) Today is a hot day. You fill a water bottle with 1 2 cups of ice, one and one half cups of ice,

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and 1 cup of Gatorade mixture. How many cups is your water bottle filled with?

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3) You find one half of a cake in the fridge. You give two-fifths of what remains, how much of cake is left?

4) Kendra recorded the amount of water she used in one week for three activities.

a) What is the total amount of water, in gallons, recorded for these activities? b) How much more water was used during bathing than doing laundry?

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