Fractions Practice Worksheet Grade 4-5 Answers
Fractions - Practice Questions (Grade 4-5) - Answers
Q1. A shape is made up of 7 equal sized triangles, 5 of the triangles are shaded. What fraction of the shape area is not shaded?
A) 2/7
B) 5/7
C) 5/12
D) 2/5
Answer 1) A
2 triangles are not shaded
Fraction of area not shaded = 2/7
Q2. The shopkeeper had 54 balloons. Two thirds of the balloons got sold. How many balloons were left in the shop?
A) 18
B) 36
C) 12
D) 24
Answer 2) A
Number of balloons sold = 2/3 of 54 = 36
Number of balloons left = 54 – 36 = 18
Q3. A player ran one third of a km on day 1 and two thirds of a km the next day. How many kilometres did the player run in two days?
A) 3 km
B) More than 1 km
C) 1 km
D) Less than 1 km
Answer 3) C
1/3 + 2/3 = 1
Player ran a total of 1 km in two days.
Q4. A bottle had 2 litres of water. A person drank a quarter of the amount of water in 1 day. How much water is left in the bottle?
A) 1 litre of water
B) Half a litre of water
C) 1.5 litres of water
D) 3/4 litres of water
Answer 4) C
Quarter of 2 litres = 0.5 litres
Water left in the bottle = 2 litres – 0.5 litres = 1.5 litres
Q5. A painter painted 1/8 of the wall as yellow and 2/8 of the wall as orange and the rest of the wall as blue. What fraction of the area did the painter painted blue?
A) 3/8
B) 4/8
C) 5/8
D) 7/8
Answer 5) C
1/8 + 2/8 = 3/8
The fraction of blue area = 1 – 3/8
The fraction of blue area = 5/8