Three eighths of forty — and the trap of answering the part given away when the question asks what is left.
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The box below contains a mixture of circles and stars: 4 stars and 6 circles. ?/5 of the shapes in the box are stars. What is the missing number?
+--------------------------+ | * O O * O | | O O * O * | +--------------------------+ 4 stars, 6 circles, 10 shapes in all
Siti is 17 years old and Julia is 5 years old. How old will Julia be when she is 3/5 as old as Siti?
The number of girls is 3/7 the number of boys at a National Kids’ Run competition. There are 960 more boys than girls. How many children took part in the competition?
Mrs Thompson baked 175 tarts. She sold 3/5 of them. Each tart was sold for $4. How much money did she collect in total?
Melody baked some muffins. 2/7 of the muffins were blueberry muffins and the rest were chocolate muffins. There were 72 more chocolate muffins than blueberry muffins. How many muffins did she bake altogether?
There are 256 balls in a box. 1/4 of the balls are red and 5/8 of them are white. The rest are black. How many more white balls than black balls are there?
Charles bought 9 bags of sweets. Each bag had 48 sweets. He gave away 5/6 of all the sweets. How many sweets did he have left?
Kate and Sam had the same number of books at first. Kate gave away 2/3 of her books while Sam gave away 1/6 of his books. The number of books that Kate gave away was 63 more than Sam. Find the number of books that each of them had at first.
Colin, Dylan and Eden shared some sweets. Colin took 1/6 of the sweets. Dylan took the remaining sweets and shared it equally with Eden. Eden ate 12 of his sweets and has 18 sweets left. How many sweets were there altogether?
Ken had some money. He used 1/2 of it to buy a shirt and 1/5 of it to buy a pair of pants. He had $180 left. How much money did he have at first?
Sandy and Tracy had $600 altogether. Sandy gave 1/5 of her money to Tracy and then Tracy gave 1/4 of the money she then had to Sandy. In the end, both of them had the same amount of money. How much money did Sandy have at first?
How many one-thirds are there in 4 wholes?
Julia had some beads in a jar. 1/4 of the beads were red and the rest were green. After Julia put another 318 red beads into the jar, the fraction of green beads in the jar became 3/7. What was the total number of beads in the jar at first?
A spider was climbing to the top of a garden wall, starting from the bottom. After climbing up 1/3 of the wall, it began to rain. During the rain the spider slipped down 30 cm and stayed there until the rain stopped. Then it climbed up the remaining 5/6 of the height of the wall to reach the top. What was the total height the spider had climbed before and after the rain, in cm?
How many sixths are there in 2 wholes?
Mary had 48 stalks of flowers in a basket. 1/3 of them were roses and the rest were lilies and daisies. There were 4 more lilies than daisies. How many daisies should Mary buy such that the number of daisies would be 1/2 of the total number of flowers in the basket?
ELSA had 40 stickers. She gave 3/8 of them to her sister. How many stickers does she have left?
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