Primary 5 Mathematics

Week 1: Fraction

Name : ________________________ Date : _____________________


1. 5 boys share 8 identical pancakes equally. What fraction of the pancakes does each boy
receive?

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2. 6

is not equivalent to _____________.

a)

b)

c)

d)

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3. 506.783 = 500 + 6 +

. What is the missing number?

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4. Express

as a decimal.




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5. Which one of the following has the smallest value?

a) 17%
b) 0.017
c) 7%
d) 1.07

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6.

of Janelles savings is $720. What is

of her savings?


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7. A man gave one-fifth of his money to his wife. He divided the remainder equally among his 8
children. If each of his children received $350, how much did his wife get?





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8. If one-half of a number multiply by one-third of the same number yields 24, what is the number?





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9. Nigel gave one-fifth of his money to his mother. He gave two-fifths of the remainder to his sister.
If his sister got $30, how much money did his mother get?





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10. Three-quarters of a class ate seven-nineth of a cake. If there were 36 children, what fraction of
the cake did each child eat?





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11. Menghwa spent

of his money on a toy and one-half of the remainder on bus fare. What
fraction of his money was left?










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12. There were

as many women as men at a funfair. Each woman bought 10 booklets of

coupons. Each man bought

as many booklets of coupons as each woman. Altogether, 2320

booklets of coupons were sold.
(a) How many men were at the funfair?
(b) How many booklets were sold to the women?















Ans: (a)__________________

(b)__________________


(Modified MGS 2013 Q16)


13. At a party, there were 810 red and pink balloons.

of the balloons were heart-shaped and the

rest were round. Of the heart-shaped balloons,

of them were pink and the rest were red. Of the

round balloons, 120 of them were pink and the rest were red.
(a) How many red heart-shaped balloons were there?
(b) What fraction of the ballons was pink? Give your answer in the simplest form.

(MGS 2013 Q12)












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14. There are altogether 494 pears and oranges at a fruit stall.

of the number of pears is equal

to

of the number of oranges. Find the number of oranges at the fruit stall.

(MGS 2013 Q7)







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15. Faith donated $220 of her money to charity and spent

of her remaining money on sme

books. She had $176 left. How much money did Faith have at first?

(MGS 2013 Q1)







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16. 4 friends shared

of a cake. What fraction of the cake did each friend get?

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17. Jaya spent

of her money on books and

of her money on food.

What fraction of her money was left?






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18.
Mrs. Lee made some cookies and packed them in 50 small boxes and 12 big boxes that had an
equal number of cookies each. Each big box had 30 more cookies than each small box.

of the
cookies made were packed in small boxes.
(a) Mrs. Lee collected $559.90 after selling all the small boxes of cookies at $8.55 each and
some big boxes of cookies at $16.50 each. How many big boxes of cookies were left?
(b) How many cookies did Mrs. Lee make?










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(b)__________________


(RGPS 2013 Q15)

19. Malcom spent

of his money on a book. Then he shared the remaining money with three of
his siblings. What fraction of Malcolms money did each of them receive?









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(RGPS 2013 Q19)


20. Meiling had 2

kg of butter. She bought another 3.5 kg of butter from the supermarket. How
much butter did she have now? Express your answer as a mixed number.






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(RGPS 2013 Q18)

21. Arrange the following in descending order.

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22. John had some marbles.

of the marbles were red.

of the remaining marbles were blue

while the rest were yellow. There were 84 blue marbles. How many marbles did he have
altogether?









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23. Joels salary is

of Melanies salary while Melanies salary is

of Kathys salary. What

fraction of Kathys salary is Joels salary?












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24. How many sevenths are there in 2

?








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