Finding fractions

Example:

What fraction of £1 is 20p?

This is how you work out.

£1 = 100p

You keep 100p in the denominator and 20p in the numerator. 20p/100.

Now reduce the fraction to lowest terms. Divide the numerator and denominator by the same number. After a bit of working out, you will get the answer: 1/5

Now try the following questions.

1. What fraction of a pound is 35p?

2. What fraction of a pound is 40p?

3. What fraction of a pound is 75p?

4. What fraction of a pound is 50p?

5. What fraction of a pound is 60p?

6. What fraction of a pound is 25p?

7. What fraction of a pound is 80p?

8. What fraction of a pound is 65p?

9. What fraction of a pound is 85p?

10. What fraction of a pound is 18p?

11. What fraction of a litre is 100 ml?

12. What fraction of £5 is £3.50?

13. What fraction of £3 is £1.80?

14. What fraction of £10 is £6?

15. What fraction of £5 is £2.50?

16. What fraction of £20 is £5?

17. What fraction of a kilogram is 400g?

18. What fraction of a kilometre is 800m?

19. What fraction of a kilometre is 450m?

20. What fraction of 1 hour is 20 minutes?

21. What fraction of 1 hour is 10 minutes?

22. What fraction of 1 hour is 18 minutes?

23. What fraction of 1 hour is 24 minutes?

24. What farction of a kilometre is 250m?

25. What fraction of a kilometre is 750m?

Now try these word problems. Give your answers in the lowest terms:

Read the questions carefully. The first step in answeing these questions is to find out what goes on the denominator and numerator. 

1. Anna had £3.60. She spent 60p to buy a pencil.

a) What fraction of money did she spend?

b) What fraction of money did she left?

2. The distance between city A and city B is 56 km. Anna decided to walk from city A to city B. On the first day, she walked 16 km. On the second day, she walked 24 km. 

a) What fraction  of the distance did she walk on the first day?

b) What fraction of the distance did she walk on the second day?

c) What fraction of the distance did she walk on the first and second day combined?

d) What fraction of the distance did she have left to walk?

3. There were 30 children in Year 5. 9 children had pets. What farction of the children had pets?What fraction of children did not have pets?

4. Anna decided to read a book with 90 pages. She read 75 pages. What fraction of the book is left to be read?

5. A box has 45 chocolates. 15 are mint flavoured. What fraction of the chocolates were not mint flavoured?

6. Kitchen floor was covered with 300 tiles. 75 were white. Rest were black. What fraction of the tiles were black?

7. Anna spent 45 minutes to do her homework. She spent18 minutes to do maths. 27 minutes to do writng work. 

a) What fraction of the time did she spend to do maths work?

b) What fraction of the time did she spend to do writing work?

8. Anna had £64. She spend £24 to buy video games and £20 to buy action figures.

a) What fraction did she spend to buy video games?

b) What fraction did she spend to buy action figures?

c) What fraction did she left?

9. A jar had to 2 litres of juice. 1500 ml was used.

a) What fraction of juice was left in the jar?

b) What fraction of juice was used?

10. I CHEW A LOT OF GUMS.

a) What fraction of the letters in the above sentence are vowels?

b) What fraction of the letters in the above sentence are consonants?