1. 1/4 of a vegetable garden has broccoli and 2/3 of the garden has peppers. How much of the garden has vegetables growing in it?
2. Jessica and Maria are both making slime with different recipes. Jessica’s recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of flour and Maria’s recipe calls for 2/3 cups of flour. How many cups of flour will they need in order to make both of their batches of slime?
3. Donnie has a pool and recently discovered a leak. He continues to patch the leak until someone can come out to repair it. After all the water has completely drained out of the pool due to the patch coming off, it takes him two days to fill the pool back up. It takes three days for the pool to drain completely. How long would it take to fill the pool if the patch is off while Donnie is refilling it?
4. I baked a cake for my sibilants. My brother ate 1/8 of the cake and my sister ate 3/4. How much of the cake is left for me?
5. Amanda is making oatmeal cookies with raisins and pecans for her club. The recipe makes seventeen oatmeal cookies. It takes 1/4 of a cup of nuts and 1/2 a cup of radon’s just for seventeen cookies! There are thirty-four members in Amanda’s club. If she makes exactly thirty-four cookies, how many cups of nuts will she need?
6. Felipe has a business where he builds and sells birdhouses. To build 12 birdhouses, he needs 5 1/4 meters of wood. During the holiday season, Felipe was asked to make 4 1/2 times the number of birdhouses he usually makes. How many meters of wood does Felipe need to make that many birdhouses?
7. It is Nadine’s birthday, and she is making walnut brownies for her sleepover. She invited eight of her friends to her party. The recipe that she is using makes twenty-four brownies, but she only wants to make eight. The recipe for twenty-four calls for 4 1/2 cups of walnuts. How many cups of walnuts will she need for eight people?
8. A candy bar is 5 1/3 inches long. If it is divided into pieces that are 1 1/4 inches long, then how many pieces of candy bar will there be?
9. A maple tree can grow in average to be 90 feet tall. Redwood trees can grow to be 2 2/3 times bigger than a maple tree. What is the average height of a Redwood tree?
10. A piece of rope is 24 1/2 feet long. How many 1/4- foot sections can be cut from it?