CHAPTER 5

FRACTIONS

More Questions for Practice

1. By cancelling, express the following fractions in their lowest terms:

(
e.g., 17 = 3 2
5 5 )
23 19 43 .
(a) (b) (c)
4 3 10
3. Write the following mixed fractions as improper fractions:

(
e.g., 4 1 = 13
3 3 )
1 2 7
(a) 7 (b) 3 (c) 2 .
6 9 10
4. Simplify:
3+7 9 −2 9 + 11 − 8 ⋅
(a) (b) (c)
4 9 16 5 10 12 15
5. Simplify:
7 − 7 3+ 5 11 − 5 + 1 46 − 9 + 2 .
(a) (b) (c) (d)
10 12 8 12 16 8 4 39 13 3
6. Simplify:
4 7 5 11 7 11 1 2
(a) 1 + 2 (b) 2 − 4 + 3 (c) 3 + 3 − 5 .
15 10 12 12 18 12 4 3
7. Simplify:
1 7 13 − 3 + 55
(a) 1 − 1 + (b)
24 36 7 21
23 − 10 + 1 1 17 + 41 − 2 + 4 7 .
(c) 5 + (d)
62 31 2 32 16 8
8. Subtract the smallest from the greatest:
1 1 23 , 37 19 , 33 , 3 21 , 3 25 .
(a) 7 , 2 , (b)
2 3 4 5 4 7 32 47
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9. What should be added to 37 , so that the sum is 50?
21
6 9 88
10. Add 4 to the difference of 8 and .
17 34 85
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11. Find the difference between the sum of 37 and 74 and the sum of 24 and 36 .
37 74 24 36

 37 ( 74 24 )(
Hint: 37 1 + 74 1 − 24 1 + 36 1 
36  )
12. Simplify:
2 1 1 11 × 1 11 1 9
(a) 3 × (b) 2 × 2 (c) (d) 3 × 3
5 2 3 27 25 4 13
7 3 56
(e) 13 × 3 (f ) 4 × ⋅
10 11 40
13. Simplify:
3 5×4 2×3 4×3
(a) 2 × (b) (c) (d)
4 8 5 8 9 5
5 2 1 14 × 3 1 1 8 × 1 17 1 14 × 1 13
(e) 2 × 2 (f) 3 × (g) 6 × (h) 4 ×
8 7 16 21 7 9 13 22 8 17 21
1 × 2 1 × 4 × 3 1.
(i)
4 2 5 2
14. Simplify:
5 3 5 18 ÷ 1
(a) 12 ÷ 15 (b) 19 ÷ 14 (c) 6 ÷ 19 (d)
17 5 8 43
19 ÷ 13 3
(e) 7 (f) 6 ÷ .
27 7
15. Simplify:
12 ÷ 3 18 ÷ 6 2 7 8 5
(a) (b) (c) 35 ÷ 4 (d) 1 ÷ 1
17 4 25 25 11 9 11 33
31 37 13 ÷ 2 19 19 ÷ 16 5 .
(e) 3 ÷ (f) 5 (g) 2
39 91 28 49 26 13
2 4 4
16. Divide 2 by the product of 1 and 2 .
7 11 9
14 3 17 1
17. Divide the difference of and by the difference of and .
4 2 6 2
18. Simplify:
25 ÷ 7 × 42 38 ÷ 57 × 20 5× 9 ÷3
(a) (b) (c)
28 15 125 45 65 39 6 10 4
4 × 14 ÷ 4 4 × 22 ÷ 8 .
(d) (e)
7 15 5 33 25 15
19. Simplify:

(a)
7 ÷ 14 × 22
6 33 35
(b)
66 (
7 ÷ 14 × 22
33 35 ) (c)
25 ÷ 5 × 7 .
39 13 20
20. Simplify:
2 1 22 1 1 2 1 2 1
(a) 2 ÷ 1 × (b) 1 ÷ 1 × 1 (c) 1 × 1 ÷ 8 .
5 10 25 2 4 3 3 3 3
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21. Simplify:
1 1
(a) 1 ÷ 1 × 1
4 5 (
3
4 ) 1 1
( )
(b) 1 ÷ 1 × 1
2 4
2
3
3 1
( )
(c) 3 ÷ 1 × 1
8 5
1
3
5
(d) 4 ÷
14 × 25
11 15 33 ( ) (e) 2 3 ÷ ( 26 × 1 1 )
5 27 5
(f) 1 3 ÷ ( 3 9 × 1 19 ) .
5 22 25
22. Simplify:
1 2
(a) 2 ÷ of 1
4 7
1
3
(b)
1
3
of 30 ÷ 30 (c) ( 73 ÷ 14 ) of 78 .
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23. Anju bought 7 1 kg mangoes and 11 kg apples. Find the total weight of the fruits
3 16
bought by her.
2 1 3
24. Juliet travelled 37 km by car, 19 km by bus and 97 km by train. Find the total
5 10 20
distance travelled by her.
4 3
25. John lives 3 km away from the school while George lives 4 km away from the school.
7 10
Who lives farther from the school and by how much?

26. A cow yields 10 7 litres milk everyday. Find how many litres of milk is the yield by the
10
cow in a week?
3
27. A group of 15 students went to see a movie. If one ticket costs ` 26 , how much did they
5
have to spend in all?
11
28. 25 shorts of equal size were prepared from 13 m cloth. How much cloth was used for
28
one short?

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29. 15 steel chairs were purchased by a school for ` 1706 . Find the cost of one steel chair.
4
30. Which is greater—
3 7 3 2
(a) or ? (b) or ?
4 8 4 3
31. Reduce to simplest form:
2535 4278
(a) (b) .
845 558
32. Arrange the following fractions in ascending order:
5 5 7
, , .
6 8 12
33. Arrange the following fractions in descending order:
17 19 9
, , .
32 48 16
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34. What should be added to 6 to get 30 ?
4 2
5 1
35. Find: 8 + 2
8 3
36. Simplify:

 7 1  1 1
     1 ÷ 1  of  8 ÷ 1  .
 8 2  3 2
2 4
37. Three parcels weigh 5 kg, 4 kg and 5 kg respectively. How much is the total weight
7 5
short 0f 20 kg?
4 1
38. th of a pole is in the mud. When rd of it is pulled out, a 5 metre long piece of the pole
7 3
is still in the mud. What is the full length of the pole?
39. Simplify:
3 3  1 1   5
     8 + 11 of 10 +  3 −  ÷ .
4    8
 
1 1
40. A cart has 6 dozens of fruits. of it are mangoes, are oranges and the rest are bananas.
3 4
Find the number of bananas.
1 1 1
41. of a vessel contains milk. If 4 litres of milk is taken out, the remaining milk is of the
3 4 4
vessel. Find the capacity of the vessel and how much milk does the vessel hold?
42. A disonest shopkeeper uses 990 gm of weight instead of 1 kg. Shweta went to the shopkeeper
1 1
and asked him to give 2 kg of sugar. What fraction of 2 kg of sugar was she cheated of?
2 2
43. Write each of the following fractions in terms of decimals:
1 1 + 7 6
(a) 8 + (b) 11 + (c) 190 + .
100 10 1000 1000
44. Add and find the sum:
(a) 1.4, 3.6 and 0.5 (b) 12.3, 1.35 and 41.05 (c) 9.002, 0.902, 90.02 and 900.2.
45. Subtract and find the difference:
(a) 45.98 from 87.23 (b) 98.17 from 121.2 (c) 48.1 from 72.23
(d) 1.66 from 10.005.
46. Simplify:
(a) 250 – 157.6 – 0.4783 – 2.1018 (b) 120 – 42.01 – 19.008 – 0.5438
(c) 4532.7 – 3675.381 + 8741.5 – 750.755 (d) 2000 – 151.984 – 329.8541 + 0.2024.
47. The sum of two decimals is 71.05. If one of them is 17.56, find the other.
48. The difference of two decimals is 1.2. If the greater decimal is 21.7, find the smaller decimal.
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49. Write each of the following decimals as fractions in their lowest terms:
(a) 5.45 (b) 6.025 (c) 3.012 (d) 25.063.
50. Convert each of the following fractions as decimals:
1 217 3 11
(a) 10 (b) (c) 15 (d) 7
8 250 8 16
23
(e) 4 .
200
51. Express the following in terms of fractions:
(a) 102.937 (b) 75.507.
52. Write each of the following as a decimal:
1 7 4 8
(a) 17 + + (b) 44 + + .
10 1000 10 100
53. Convert unlike decimals into like decimals:
(a) 1.2, 0.08 and 13.1 (b) 1.42, 14.2 and 0.142.
54. Simplify:
(a) 321.7 – 195.68 – 27.27 + 625.004. (b) 56.680 – 436.25 + 621.74 – 32.29.

ANSWERS
1 9 1 3 1 3
1. (a) (b) (c) 2. (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 4
5 16 2 4 3 10
43 29 27 . 55 13 77 .
3. (a) (b) (c) 4. (a) (b) (c)
6 9 10 36 80 60
7 19 5 45 15
5. (a) (b) (c) (d) or
60 24 16 39 13
29 8 1
6. (a) 3 (b) (c) 1
30 9 2
17 10 17 31
7. (a) (b) 1 (c) 6 (d) 5
72 21 31 32
1 41 17 99 2587
8. (a) 5 (b) 1 9. 12 10. 11 11. 50
6 188 21 170 2664
1 5 44 1 54
12. (a) 1 (b) 5 (c) (d) 12 (e) 48 (f) 5
5 6 75 10 55
1 1 3 4 5
13. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) (d) (e) 6 (f) 6
2 2 20 15 12
2 1 3
(g) 6 (h) 5 (i) 1
3 2 4
209 2 53 18 16
14. (a) (b) 1 (c) (d) (e) ( f ) 14
255 5 152 43 27
16 4 1 1 15
15. (a) (b) 3 (c) 7 (d) 1 (e) 9 (f) 2
17 11 2 3 52
1 24 6
(g) 16. 17.
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18. (a) (b) (c) 1 (d) (e)
14 81 3 5
51 35 7
19. (a) 1 (b) (c)
70 88 12
23 4
20. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c)
25 15
25 18 7 3 1 4
21. (a) (b) (c) 2 (d) 6 (e) 2 (f)
42 25 64 10 4 15
29 1 47 37 13
22. (a) 5 (b) (c) 1 23. 18 kg 24. 153 km
32 3 49 48 20
51 9 15 3
25. George; km 26. 74 L 27. ` 399 28. m 29. ` 113
70 10 28 4
7 3 23 2 7 5 5
30. (a) (b) 31. (a) 3 (b) or 7 32. , ,
8 4 3 3 12 8 6
9 17 19 1 23 17 32
33. , , 34. 24 35. 10 36. 6 37. 4 kg 38. 21 metres.
16 32 48 4 24 18 35
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39. 5 40. 2 dozens 41. 51 litres; 17 litres 42.
2 100
43. (a) 8.01 (b) 11.107 (c) 190.006 44. (a) 5.5 (b) 54.7 (c) 1000.124
45. (a) 41.25 (b) 23.03 (c) 24.13 (d) 8.345
46. (a) 89.8199 (b) 58.4382 (c) 8848.064 (d) 1518.3643
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47. 53.49 48. 20.5. 49. (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 3 (d) 25
20 40 250 1000
50. (a) 10.125 (b) 0.868 (c) 15.375 (d) 7.6875 (e) 4.115
937 507
51. (a) 102 (b) 75 52. (a) 17.107 (b) 44.48
1000 1000
53. (a) 1.20, 0.08, 13.10 (b) 1.420, 14.200, 0.142 54. (a) 723.754 (b) 209.88