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Fractions quiz
Level A
1. Which pizza has been cut into thirds?
A) Pizza A
B) Pizza B
2. There are 5 rows of people in this picture. What fraction of crowd is shaded orange?
A) 1/2
B) 1/10
C) 1/5
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3. Which two diagrams show the same fraction?
A) a & b
B) a & c
C) a & d
4. What should you do to the numerator and denominator in order to simplify a fraction?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Add them to a number
Multiply them by a number
Divide them by a number
Subtract them from a number
5. Which fraction can be simplified to 1?
A)
B)
C)
D)
4/5
6/5
1/5
5/5
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6. If you change 2/4 to 4/8 have you simplified the fraction?
A) Yes
B) No
7. What is 1/4 of £12?
A) £6
B) £3
8. Which is bigger?
A) 1/3 of 12
B) 1/4 of 20
9. Put these three fractions in order of size, smallest to largest:
1/8, 1/3, 1/4
A) 1/3,1/4,1/8
B) 1/8,1/4,1/3
C) 1/8,1/3,1/4
10. Is this fraction less than, equal to or greater than 1/6?
A) less than 1/6
B) equal to 1/6
C) greater than 1/6
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Level B
1. Which pizza has been cut into eighths?
A) Pizza A.
B) Pizza B.
C) Pizza C.
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2. Which two diagrams show the same fraction?
A) a & b
B) a & c
C) a & d
3. Which of these is an improper fraction?
A)
B)
C)
D)
2/3
3/4
4/5
5/3
4. How would you write six quarters as an improper fraction?
A)
B)
C)
D)
64
6/4
4/6
3
5. Find 2/3 of a box of 36 apples.
A)
B)
C)
D)
12
22
23
24
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6. Which is bigger?
A) 5/6 of 18
B) 2/3 of 21
7. Which is the smaller?
A) 4/5 of 20
B) 2/3 of 21
8. Which shaded fraction is 3/5?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Row A
Row B
Row C
Row D
9. Which of the following is not correct?
A) 2/3 > 3/4
B) 2/5 > 1/3
C) 1/4 < 1/2
10. What fraction fills the gap in this ordered sequence?
1/8, 1/6, ?, 1/2
A) 1/10
B) 1/7
C) 1/4
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Level C
1. What fraction of the pizza is each piece?
A)
B)
C)
D)
1/10
1/12
1/15
1/16
2. Which set of fractions are all equivalent to each other?
A) 1/2, 2/4, 3/6
B) 1/4, 2/4, 3/4
3. What is the total of 4/4 plus 5/5 ?
A) 9/9
B) 9
C) 2
4. How many quarters are there in four pizzas?
A)
B)
C)
D)
4
8
12
16
5. After simplifying 11/5 to a mixed number you get 2 and what fraction?
A)
B)
C)
D)
1/5
2/5
3/5
4/5
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6. All these fractions are worth the same. What can they all be simplified to?
25/5, 35/7, 40/8, 30/6
A)
B)
C)
D)
3
4
5
6
7. Work out the discounts on the jumpers. Which is cheaper?
A) The red jumper is cheaper.
B) The blue jumper is cheaper.
8. 150 ml of whipped cream will fill 18 chocolate eclairs. If you only have six eclairs, how much
cream do you need?
A) 50 ml
B) 100 ml
9. Which of these is less than 1/3?
A)
B)
C)
D)
1/2
3/8
2/3
1/5
10. Put these in order, smallest first: ½ , ¼ , 2, 1½ , 2⅓
A) ¼, ½ , 1½, 2⅓, 2
B) ¼, ½, 1½, 2, 2⅓
C) 2, ¼, ½, 1½, 2⅓
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Level A
1.
Which pizza has been cut into thirds?
The correct answer is: A. Pizza A has been cut into three pieces. Each piece is one third of
the whole pizza.
2.
There are 5 rows of people in this picture. What fraction of crowd is shaded orange?
The correct answer is: C. 1/5 of the crowd. There are five rows of people and one row is
shaded orange.
3.
Which two diagrams show the same fraction?
The correct answer is: C. a. and d. are the same. They both have 4 out of 10 parts shaded.
4.
What should you do to the numerator and denominator in order to simplify a fraction?
The correct answer is: C. Divide them by a number. To simplify fractions you must divide
the numerator and denominator by the same number.
5.
Which fraction can be simplified to 1?
The correct answer is: D. 5/5 can be simplified to 1 because 5 divided by 5 =1
6.
If you change 2/4 to 4/8 have you simplified the fraction?
The correct answer is: B. No. 2/4 and 4/8 could both be simplified to 1/2.
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7.
What is 1/4 of £12?
The correct answer is: B. £3. Find the correct answer by dividing by 4.
12 ÷ 4 = 3
8.
Which is the bigger fraction?
The correct answer is: B. 1/4 of 20 is greater than 1/3 of 12
1/3 of 12 = 4 (12 ÷ 3)
1/4 of 20 = 5 (20 ÷ 4)
9.
Put these three fractions in order of size, smallest to largest: 1/8, 1/3, 1/4
The correct answer is: B. 1/8,1/4,1/3
They are all unit fractions so you can order them using the numbers on the bottom.
10.
Is this fraction less than, equal to or greater than 1/6?
The correct answer is: C. Greater than 1/6.
The fraction shown is 2 parts out of 5 which makes it 2/5.
Look at a fraction wall to see that this is greater than 1/6. 2/5 > 1/6.
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Level B
1. Which pizza has been cut into eighths?
The correct answer is: B. Pizza B has eight parts. It is cut into eighths.
2. Which two diagrams show the same fraction?
The correct answer is: C. a & d.
Both diagrams both have six parts shaded. They both show 6/12.
3. Which of these is an improper fraction?
The correct answer is: D. 5/3 is an improper fraction because the numerator is bigger than the
denominator.
4. How would you write six quarters as an improper fraction?
The correct answer is: B. Six quarters as an improper fraction is 6/4.
5. Find 2/3 of a box of 36 apples.
The correct answer is: D. 24.
To find the answer, first find 1/3, which is 12, then multiply your answer by 2 to get 2/3 of 36
which is 24
6. Which is the bigger fraction?
The correct answer is: A. 5/6 of 18 is greater than 2/3 of 21.
2/3 of 21 = 14 but 5/6 of 18 = 15.
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7. Which is the smaller?
The correct answer is: B. 2/3 of 21 is smaller than 4/5 of 20.
4/5 of 20 = 16
2/3 of 21 = 14
8. Which shaded fraction is 3/5?
The correct answer is: B. Row B has 3 out of 5 parts shaded, which makes the shaded part
3/5 of the whole.
9. Which of the following is not correct?
The answer is: A. 2/3 > 3/4 is not correct because 3/4 is actually greater than 2/3.
It should read 3/4 > 2/3
10. What fraction fills the gap in this ordered sequence? 1/8, 1/6, ?, 1/2
The correct answer is: C. 1/4.
The sequence is going from smallest to largest. You want the one that's between 1/6 and 1/2
which is 1/4.
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Level C
1. What fraction of the pizza is each piece?
The correct answer is: C. 1/15. The pizza has 15 slices. Each piece is 1/15 which is one
fifteenth.
2. Which set of fractions are all equivalent to each other?
The correct answer is: A. 1/2, 2/4, 3/6 These are all the same as a half of something.
3. What is the total of 4/4 plus 5/5 ?
The correct answer is: C. 2.
4/4 = 1
and that
5/5 = 1
So the sum becomes 1 + 1 = 2
4. How many quarters are there in four pizzas?
The correct answer is: D. 16. There are sixteen quarters in 4 pizzas.
5. After simplifying 11/5 to a mixed number you get 2 and what fraction?
The correct answer is: A. 1/5
11/5 can be simplified to a mixed number 2 1/5.
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6. All these fractions are worth the same. What can they all be simplified to?
25/5, 35/7, 40/8, 30/6
The correct answer is: C. 5 because all the fractions can be simplified to 5.
7. Work out the discounts on the jumpers. Which is cheaper?
The correct answer is: B. The blue jumper is cheaper.
The blue jumper is 'HALF-PRICE'. Divide £30 by 2 to find its sale cost.
30 ÷ 2 = 15, so the blue jumper costs £15.
The red jumper is 1/3 off. To find a third off £27, divide £27 by 3.
27 ÷ 3 = 9
Then subtract this from the original price.
27 - 9 = 18, so the red jumper costs £18
£15 is less than £18 so the blue jumper is cheaper
8. 150 ml of whipped cream will fill 18 chocolate eclairs. If you only have six eclairs, how much
cream do you need?
The correct answer is: A. 50ml. 6 eclairs is a THIRD of 18 eclairs so to find the answer just
divide 150 ml by 3.
9. Which of these is less than 1/3?
The correct answer is: D. 1/5 is less than 1/3. The bigger the number on the bottom of a unit
fraction the smaller it is.
10. Put these in order, smallest first: ½ , ¼ , 2, 1½ , 2⅓
The correct answer is: B. ¼, ½, 1½, 2,
2⅓
You order by the whole number parts first, then by the fraction parts.
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