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Week 3 Fraction

Review

• Mixed Fractions and Improper Fractions

• Conversions between Mixed Fractions and Improper Fractions

Example 1.

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What is 2 4 expressed as an improper fraction?

3
So, 2 4 = .

Example 2.

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What is 3 expressed as a mixed fraction?

7
So, 3 = ______.
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• Equivalent Fractions

Example 3.

Change the following to equivalent fractions:

1 3
a) = b) 4 =
3 15 20

1 2 12
c) = d) 5 =
4 100

• Conversion between Fractions and Decimals

Example 4.

Express the following fractions into decimals:

3 13
a) = ______ b) 100 = ______
10

1 4
c) = ______ d) 5 = ______
2

Example 5.

Express the following decimals into fractions in their simplest form:

a) 0.6 = ______ b) 0.25 = ______

c) 0.46 = ______ d) 0.35 = ______

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• Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Example 6.

Find the sum of 3/5 and 1/10. Express your answer in its simplest form

← Step 1: Find the equivalent fractions with

same denominators.

← Step 2: Adding as like fractions.

← Step 3: Simplify if possible.

Example 7.

3 1
Find the sum of 1 7 and 2 14. Express your answer in its simplest form.

← Step 1: Convert the mixed fractions into

improper fractions.

← Step 2: Find the equivalent fractions with

same denominators.

← Step 3: Adding as like fractions.

← Step 4: Simplify if possible.

← Step 4: Convert to mixed fraction if

possible.

Example 8.

Find the difference between 5/8 and 1/4. Express your answer in its simplest form

← Step 1: Find the equivalent fractions with

same denominators.

← Step 2: Subtracting as like fractions.

← Step 3: Simplify if possible.

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Example 9.

3 3
Find the difference between 4 5 and 2 10. Express your answer in its simplest form.

← Step 1: Convert the mixed fractions into

improper fractions.

← Step 2: Find the equivalent fractions with

same denominators.

← Step 3: subtracting as like fractions.

← Step 4: Simplify if possible.

← Step 4: Convert to mixed fraction if

possible.

• Multiplying Fractions

Example 10.

Find the product of 1/4 and 2/3.

• Associating Fractions with Division

Example 11.

If 4 children share 3 pizzas, what fraction of a pizza will each child get?

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• Solving Word Problems

Example 12.

5/8 of a pizza is shared equally among 2 children. What fraction of the pizza will each
child get?

Example 13.
After spending ¼ of her money on a pair of shoes and 1/6 of the remainder on a bag,
Amy had $40 left. How much money did she spend altogether?

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Practices
1. A box contains red, blue, and yellow balls. 7/18 of them are red and 150 are blue.
Given that the number of blue balls is 1/3 of the total number of balls in the box,
how many yellow balls are there?

2. Mary and Sue had the same amount of money. Sue spent $222 on clothes. After
Mary spent $320, she had ¼ of the total amount both of them had left. How much
did they have together at first? What fraction of her original amount did Mary have
left?

3. Mr Lee sold some oranges over a weekend. He sold 330 oranges on Saturday and
2/5 of the remaining on Sunday. 168 oranges were left. How many oranges did he
have at first?

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4. John bought some stickers on Friday. On Saturday, he gave ½ of his stickers to

Tom and 1/6 of the remaining to Jack. John bought another 182 stickers on Sunday.
The final number of stickers he had was the same as the number he bought on
Friday. How many stickers did he buy on Friday?

5. In 2018, the total enrolment for Year 1 at a primary school was 981. 2/3 of the total
enrolment were boys. In 2019, the fraction of boys enrolled in Year 1 became ¾ of
the total number of pupils enrolled for the year while the number of girls enrolled
remained unchanged from 2018. How many more boys were enrolled in 2019 than
2018?

6. A baker had some flour. He used 1/5 of the flour and bought another 15kg of flour.
He had 14/15 as much flour as he had at first. How many kilograms of flour did the
baker have at first?

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7. Plantation A and Plantation B had a total of 5985 rubber trees. 5/11 of the trees in
Plantation A were destroyed and ¼ of the trees in Plantation B were destroyed. As
a result, there was an equal number of trees left in both plantations. How many
trees were there in Plantation A at first?

8. Eddie had a stamp collection. He gave ½ of his stamp to Michael and 1/6 of the
remaining stamps to Tom. He then gave 3/10 of the remaining to Mary. After he
gave another 5/7 of current remaining stamps to John, he had 36 stamps left. How
many stamps did Eddie have in his collection at first?

9. Jay gave 3/10 of his first month’s salary to his mother and spent 15/49 of the
remainder on a briefcase and a watch. The briefcase cost three times as much as
the watch. He had $396 left.
a) How much was Jay’s salary?
b) Find the cost of the brief case Jay purchased.

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10. Mary and Nancy had a sum of money. Mary had $110 less than Nancy. After Nancy
gave 1/7 of her share to Mary, Mary had $30 more than Nancy.
a) How much money did Mary have at first?
b) Find the total sum of money Mary and Nancy had.

11. 120 Year 5 students at a primary school sat for a science test. 1/8 of girls passed
the test and 1/5 of the boys passed the test. A total of 21 students passed the test.
a) How many girls sat for the test?
b) How many boys failed the test?

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