Questions:

  1. There are 20 children at a party but only 15 cans of pop. What fraction of children would not be able to have a drink?
  2. If the 15 cans of pop were shared equally between all 20 children what fraction of a can of pop would each child have to drink?
  3. A room measures 5 metres by 3 metres. How many square metres of carpet would be needed to cover just of the room?
  4. If of the children in a class score full marks for a spelling test and 20 children didn't score full marks how many children are there in the class altogether?
  5. If I can run a distance of 1 kilometre in 12 minutes, how many metres could I run in of the time?
  6. There are 120 pages in a book. If I am of the way through, what page am I on?
  7. I live of a kilometre from school. How far would I have to walk to reach the halfway point?
  8. How many minutes is of an hour?
  9. I have £1.00 and four friends. I want to give one friend of my money, one friend of what's left, one friend of what's leftover from that and the remaining money to another friend. How much money did each friend get?
  10. Which month is of the way through the year?
 

 

 

 

Answers:

  1. 10m2
  2. 30
  3. 250m
  4. Page 45
  5. of a kilometre or 375m
  6. 36 minutes
  7. 25p, 45p, 10p and 20p
  8. March