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Fractions intangible
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TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE FRACTIONS – PROBLEM SUMS
Example 1 Example 1 I spent 2/5 of my money on a book and 1/3 on a pen. What is the whole/total?(intangible whole) Ans:__________________________ What fraction is spent on both book and pen? Ans:___________________________ What fraction of money is left? Ans:___________________________
Example 2 Example 2 Courtney ate 3/5 of his plums, gave his brother ¼ and gave his mother the rest. What is the whole/total? Ans:____________________________ What fraction does he give his mother? Ans:____________________________ What fraction of the plums did he eat and give to his brother? Ans:____________________________
Example 3 Shane sold 3/5 of his vegetable to Mary, gave 0.3 to his relatives and kept the rest for himself. What percentage of his vegetables was given and sold? Ans:_____________________________ What fraction of his vegetable did Shane keep for himself? Ans:_____________________________ Shane’s relatives believe that Shane kept more vegetables than he gave them. Are his relatives correct? Use calculation to support your answer. Ans: _____________________________
Example 4 In a class 25% of the student in the class preferred football, 3/8 preferred tennis, 0.3 liked cricket and the remainder preferred basketball. What percent of the class preferred basketball? Ans:______________________________ What fraction of the class did not prefer basketball? Ans:_____________________________
Example 1 A market vendor has 900 fruits for sale. Of these, 1 is portugal. The remainder are oranges. 3is mangoes and 1 5 No. of mangoes = Ans:____________________________ How many of the fruits are oranges? Ans:____________________________
Example 2 Example 2 Farmer Green has 1600 fruits to sell. Of these 3/10 are grapefruits and 3/8 are oranges. The remainder are limes. How many fruits are there in all? Ans:___________________________ How many fruits are ORANGES? Ans:___________________________ How many LIMES have farmer Green? Ans:___________________________ What’s the number of grapefruits he has? Ans:__________________________
Example 3 Example 3 A basket contains 160 apples. Sheila gave away 2/5 of these to her sister, Jane, 0.25 to her friend, Anna and kept the rest. How many apples did her sister get? Ans:___________________________ Calculate how many she kept for herself. Ans:____________________________
Example 4 Example 4 A school library has 1200 books. 50% of the books are novel and 20% of the books are science books. Other books make up the rest. Calculate: The number of novels in the library. Ans:_____________________________ The number of science books. Ans:_____________________________ The number of other books. Ans:_____________________________