Multiplying and dividing fraction word problems
The question
How many portions are there?
Dev is packing 6 cups of flour into -cup sample pots for the market stall.
Dev is packing 6 cups of flour into -cup sample pots for the market stall.
numbers:6
6÷
asked:How many portions are there?
6÷=12
12portions
- Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- The numbers are 6 and . What to do with them comes from the story.
- The question asks how many portions of that size fit into the whole amount — how many fit is a division, and the answer can be bigger than the amount you started with. So this one is a division: 6 ÷ .
- 6 ÷ = 6 × 2 = 12 portions — that answers "How many portions are there?".
How it works.
- 01
Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- 02
The numbers are 6 and 1/2. What to do with them comes from the story.
- 03
The question asks how many portions of that size fit into the whole amount — how many fit is a division, and the answer can be bigger than the amount you started with. So this one is a division: 6 ÷ 1/2.
- 04
6 ÷ 1/2 = 6 × 2 = 12 portions — that answers "How many portions are there?".