Fractions Word Problems

1. Box A is 4 times as heavy as Box B. The total mass of Box A and Box B is 12 kg.
How heavy is Box A ?
5 4
2. A tablecloth has a length 8 m and a breadth of 15 m. What is the area of the tablecloth
?
1 3 7
3. Joko had 3 4 litres of milk. He drank 8 litres milk on Monday and 12 litres of milk on
Tuesday.
a. How much milk Joko drank altogether on Monday and Tuesday ?
b. How much milk was left ?
4
4. Kim Jong Un bought 12 kg of sugar. He used 3 9 kg of it to make North Korean cake
2
and 3 kg less to make North Korean juice. How much sugar did Kim Jong Un use
altogether ?
11
5. There are 120 boys and girls altogether in a hall. 15 of the children are girls. How
many more girls than boys in that hall ?
1
6. The mass of a pail is 3000 grams when it is 5 filled with water. It has a mass of 5640
grams when its is fully filled with water. Find the mass of the pail when it is empty ?
Fractions Word Problems 2
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1. There are 210 boys and girls altogether in a hall. 14 of the children are girls. How
many more girls than boys in that hall ?
3 7 3
2. Budi had 5 5 litres of juice. He drank 10 litres juice on Monday and 4 litres of juice on
Tuesday.
a. How much juice Budi drank altogether on Monday and Tuesday ?
b. How much juice was left ?
3. Box A is 8 times as heavy as Box B. The total mass of Box A and Box B is 15 kg.
How heavy is Box A ?
2 5
4. Dimas bought 26 kg of flour. He used 11 9 kg of it to make pancakes and 6 kg less to
make muffins. How much flour did Dimas has left ?
2 2
5. A rectangular garden has a length 3 5 m and a breadth of 4 7 m. What is the area of the
garden ?
2
6. The mass of a pail is 1690 grams when it is 7 filled with sand. It has a mass of 2990
grams when its is fully filled with sand. Find the mass of the pail when it is empty ?
Fractions Word Problems 3
1. Box A is 5 times as heavy as Box B. The total mass of Box A and Box B is 10 kg.
How heavy is Box A ?
2. Hendrie had 7 m of rope. He used it to tied 4 similar boxes and no rope was left. How
much rope did Hendrie use for each box ?
3 5
3. Sarah finished a job in 3 7 h. Tina finished the same job in 8 of the time Sarah took.
How long did Tina take to finish the job ?
4
4. Thomas has a total of 135 books. 9 of his books were fiction books and the rest were
non-fiction books. How many non-fiction books Thomas has ?
5
5. There are 260 boys and girls altogether in a hall. 13 of the children are girls. How
many less girls than boys in that hall ?
1 3
6. A room has a length 4 5 m and a breadth of 8 7 m. What is the area of the room ?
3 5
7. Reynald bought 35 kg of oranges. He sold 8 5 kg of it on Monday and sold 3 6 kg
more oranges on Tuesday. How many kg of oranges Reynald has left ?
7 7 3
8. Alfred had 8 10 kg of sugar. He used 8 kg of sugar to make a cake and 3 4 kg of sugar
to make fruit punches.
a. How much sugar Alfred used altogether ?
b. How much sugar was left ?
1
9. Rina had some milk. She used 8 of it to bake some waffles and 240 ml to bake a pie.
1
After baking the waffles and the pie, she had 2 of the milk left. How much milk did
Rina have at first ?
1
10.The mass of a pail is 1070 grams when it is 4 filled with water. It has a mass of 2120
grams when its is fully filled with water. Find the mass of the pail when it is empty ?