NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

HOMEWORK

What's Cooking?

Solve these problems. Use a representation and write an equation for each one.

• 1 Lourdes is making trail mix. She uses 1 3 1 third cup of raisins for each batch of trail mix. How many batches of trail mix can she make with 3 cups of raisins?

• 2 Renaldo is making pizzas. He has 2 pounds of cheese. He uses 1 4 1 fourth pound of cheese for each pizza. How many pizzas can he make?

• 3 Tyler has 5 cups of walnuts. He needs 1 2 1 half cup of walnuts to make a batch of cookies. How many batches of cookies can Tyler make?

• 4 Alicia uses 1 3 1 third of an onion to make a pot of soup. How many pots of soup can she make with 4 onions?

NOTE

Students use representations to solve problems involving dividing a whole number by a unit fraction. (A unit fraction is a fraction in which the numerator is 1.)

MWI Dividing a Whole Number by a Unit Fraction

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