Unit 10 Contents

Draw pictures, use fraction circle pieces, fold paper, sketch rectangles, or use paper-and-pencil strategies to solve each problem. Include number sentences and labels.

6. Luis used a birthday gift card to buy a toy. The toy was on sale for off the regular price. The regular price was $21.
1. How much less was the cost of the toy?
2. What was the sale price of the toy?
7. At the end of Luis's party, there was of a case of orange soda left. Luis's father took of the leftover soda to work.
1. What fraction of the whole case did he take to work?
2. One case of soda contains 24 cans. How many cans are in of of a case? Draw a diagram or picture to help.
8. Luis and his mother shared a whole submarine sandwich after the party. Luis ate of the sandwich. His mother ate of what Luis left. How much of the sandwich did Luis's mother eat?
9. of a 32-ounce bottle of lemonade was gone. How many ounces of lemonade were left in the bottle?
10. There was a fourth of a glass of lemonade sitting on a table until Luis knocked it over. After the spill, there was only about half as much left. About how much of the glass of lemonade did Luis spill?
11. After the party, Luis's father found of a half-gallon of strawberry ice cream and of a half-gallon of chocolate ice cream in the freezer.
1. What fraction of a gallon of strawberry ice cream was in the freezer?
2. What fraction of a gallon of chocolate ice cream was in the freezer?
3. If Luis's father puts all the ice cream together in a sundae, will he have closer to a half-gallon or a gallon of ice cream? How do you know?
12. Altogether, Luis's sister took down 24 meters of streamers. of the streamers were hanging in the kitchen. How many meters of streamers were hanging in the kitchen?
13. Luis mopped the floor for of an hour. Luis's sister mopped for of that time.
1. What fractional part of an hour did Luis's sister help mop?
2. How many minutes did she mop?