Fraction Problems 1
Please set these questions out neatly in your books. Start with the total at the top and record how much is spent for each item below this.
1. Andy’s having a party he has £200 to spend on it. He spends ¼ on pasties 3/8 on drinks and 2/10 on party hats. How much money does he have left to spend on balloons?
2. Susie has £150 wages. She spends 1/3 on her rent, 4/20 on her bills, 3/12 on lots of shoes. How much does she have left to spend on clothes shopping?
3. Algie gets £5 pocket money per week. If he spends 2/5 of it on sweets and 3/10 of it on toys and saves the rest, how much will he have saved after 4 weeks?
Fraction Problems 2
Please set these questions out neatly in your books. Start with the total at the top and record how much is spent for each item below this.
1. A firm earns £1000 profit every day. ¾ of their profit comes from selling computers, and 1/5 of their profit comes from selling phones. How much money do they make from selling everything else?
2. I have £250. If I spend 2/5 of that money on going to watch football, ¼ on eating McDonalds and 2/10 on drinking tea how much do I have left for buying take away Chinese?
3. Baby has £50 in his nappy. If he spends ¼ of his money on milk and 3/8 of his money on baby food and £10 on having his hair cut and blow dried, how much money does he have left to spend on buying a toy train set?
Fraction Problems 3
Please set these questions out neatly in your books. Start with the total at the top and record how much is spent for each item below this.
1. A theme park makes £300 profit each day. If 1/3 of the profit comes from entry fees, 1/6 comes from selling food and 2/5 comes from selling gifts how much money is made from everything else each day?
2. If LP builders charge £125 per day. If their staff costs are 1/5 of that total and their petrol costs are 2/10 how much profit do they make in a day?
3. Jim is 1 metre 30 cm tall. If his brother is 1/10 taller than Jim, how tall is his brother?
Fraction Problems 4
Please set these questions out neatly in your books. Start with the total at the top and record how much is spent for each item below this.
1. Louise collects the Olympic 50p pieces. There are 30 different ones to collect. During the first week of collecting she managed to find 2/5 of the total amount. How many does she still have left to find?
2. Vicki weighs 120kg. She has been on a diet and has lost 1/6 of her body weight during the first month and a further 1/5 of her starting weight during the second month. What does she weigh now?
3. An average banana is 30cm long – if I used a shrink ray to shrink it by 1/3 how long would the banana be now? (shrinking is making it smaller)
Fraction Problems 5
Please set these questions out neatly in your books. Start with the total at the top and record how much is spent for each item below this.
1. The oldest man in the world is 110 years old. If his younger brother is 9/10 of his age how old is his younger brother?
2. If I earn £200 a week, the tax man takes 3/8 of it and I pay my mum ½ of my earnings for rent, how much do I end up having to spend on the things I want?
3. A cargo ship can carry containers weighing up to 50,000 tonnes. If it costs £1 million to rent out the entire space on this ship, how much will it cost if I want to rent out 3/5 of the entire space? How many tonnes of space do the firm have left to sell on?
Fraction Problems 6
Please set these questions out neatly in your books. Start with the total at the top and record how much is spent for each item below this.
1. My brother gets paid £70 a week. If he owes me ½ of his salary. If he pays me 1/7 of what he owes me how much money will he still take home?
2. If I work for 4/7 of a week, how many days off do I get in total over three weeks?
3. We asked 100 people who their favourite band was. 3/5 of the people asked said they liked JLS. So how many people voted for one of the other groups as their favourite band?