ACTIVITY SHEET 1

NAME _____________________________________________________DATE _________________

GRADE_____ MR. NINO JOSE P. DE GUZMAN

Problem Type: BLOCK MODEL APPROACH (Fraction)

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Example 1 Mr. De Guzman earns P 45 000 a month. His wife earns of what he earns. Mr. De
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Guzman saves of his salary and his wife saves of her salary. How much do they
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save altogether?

In solving a word problem, it is quite important to be a keen observer on the details of the problem.
Sometimes, illustrations and tables help to visualize the problem.

Mr. De Guzman Mrs. De Guzman

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Salary is P 45 000 Salary 45 000 x = P 36 000
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Savings: 45 000 x = P 9 000 Savings: 36 000 x = P 12 000
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From the table we can see that the savings of Mr. De Guzman is P 9 000 while the savings of Mrs. De
Guzman in a month is P 12 000.
So the their total savings in a month is P 9 000 + P 12 000 = P 21 000.
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Example 2 Mrs. Reyes bought 2 kilograms of minced neat on Wednesday and another 3
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kilograms on Thursday. She mixed the meat together and repacked some of it into 4
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packs of 1 kilograms of each. She used the rest of the meat for cooking. How much
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did she use for cooking?

Solution
 3 3  1
n   2  3    4 1 
 4 4  2
 11 15   4 3 
n     
4 4  1 2
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n 6
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n  6 6
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n  6 6
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1
n
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She used kilograms of meat for cooking.
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On the next examples let us use the equation in writing the solution.
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Example 3 Cherry bought 4 kilograms of beef last week and 1 kilograms less this week
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than last week. How much beef did she buy for 2 weeks?
Write the solution.
What is the equation?
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4 1  1 3
last week
2 n  4   4  1  Write the equation.
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2  2 4
? 3 9 9 7
this week 1 n     Rename the mixed numbers to
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improper fractions
 18  18 7 
n    Rename the fractions to their
4  4 4
LCD.
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n  Subtract fractions.
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n Add fractions
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n7 Rename improper fraction to
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mixed number
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She bought 7 kilograms of beef in two weeks.
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Example 4 Ernie spent of his money on a book and the rest of his money on 2 chocolate bars P
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40 each. How much did the book cost?

Solution.
Abstractly:
 1 3
n   2  40    
 4 4
 1 3
n  80   
 4 4
book chocolate  80 4  3
n  
bars  1 1  4
1 chocolate bar = 40 3
40 x 2 = 80 n  320 
I unit = 80 4
Book = 3 units n  240
3 units = 3 x 80 = 240
The cost of a book is P 240.

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Example 5 of the people on a restaurant are gentlemen. If there are 48 more men than ladies,
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how many people are there in the restaurant?

Solution. Abstractly:
7  7 
men n  48    1 
10  10 
7 3 
womenn n  48   
48 10 10 
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n  48 
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4 units = 48 12
1 unit = 48 ÷ 4 = 12 48 10
10 units = 10 x 12 = 120 n 
There are 120 people in the restaurant. 1 4
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n= 120
EXERCISES
Read, analyze then solve the following problems. Show correct solutions.
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1. Mrs. Adriano spent of her money on lean meat, of the remainder on vegetables and the
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rest on fish.
a) What fraction of her money was spent on vegetables?
b) What was the amount spent on lean meat?
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2. Janet spent of her money on a book and the rest of her money on 3 chocolate bars P 41
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each. How much money did she have at first?
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3. Daniel spent 3 hours studying his lesson last night and spent 1 hours more tonight than
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last night. How many hours in all did Daniel spend doing his chores?
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4. Michelle repacked 4 kg of meat to 5 packs each weighed kg and cooked the rest. How
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many kilograms of meat did she cook?
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5. The weight of a dog is 12 kg while the weight of a cat is 2 kg less than the weight of the dog.
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What is the combined weight of the two animals?
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6. Mrs. De Jesus bought 2 kg of meat on Tuesday and another 4 kg on Wednesday. She
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mixed the meat together and repacked some of it into 5 packs of 1 kg of each. She used the
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rest of the meat for cooking. How much meat did she use for cooking?
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7. A length of pipe was 2 m long. Another length of pipe was m shorter. A plumber joined the
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two pipes together. What was the total length of the pipe in the end?
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8. Wilma baked some cookies. She packed of them into a box and gave of the remainder to
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her friend. She had 40 cookies left. How many cookies did she bake?
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9. Leonard read of the book yesterday and another of today. He took another 4 days to finish
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reading the book. He read the same number of pages on each of the 4 days. If he read 30 pages
on each of these 4 days, find the number of pages in the book.
10. In December, Janet performed community service at an orphanage for a total of 8 hours. She
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spent hours at the orphanage for each visit. Find the number of visits did she make in
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December.
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11. Therese saved of her salary, spent another of it and divided the rest among her family.
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Each member of her family. Each member of the family received of her salary. If her salary is
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P 30 000, how much money did each member of the family receive?
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12. Ronald used of his money to buy some shirts and of the remainder to buy 3 pairs of pants.
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A pair of pants costs 4 times as much as a blouse. How many shirts did she buy?
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13. A square piece of cardboard has an area of m2. Nicholas cut into a number of pieces, each
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with an area of m2. How many pieces did he cut the cardboard into?
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14. Mr. Manuel earns P 40 000 each month. His wife earns of what he earns. Mr. Manuel saves
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of his salary and his wife saves of her salary. How much do they save in a year?
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15. O’mer had some bottles of soda. He sold of the bottles of soda in the morning. He sold of
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the remainder in the afternoon. 18 more bottles of milk were sold in the afternoon than in the
morning. How many bottles of milk did he have at first?