Unit 7 – Fractions and decimals
Look at this problem.
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Carl has 24 stickers. There are animals on 1 __ 8
of the stickers.
There are cars on 1 __ 3
. How many animal stickers and car stickers
are there?
Let’s use arrays to represent the problem.
1 __ 8 of 24 stickers is 3 because 24 ÷ 8 = 3 There are 3 animal stickers.
1 __ 3 of 24 stickers is 8 because 24 ÷ 3 = 8 There are 8 car stickers.
There are aeroplanes on 3 __ 8 of Carl’s stickers. How can you use the array to | help you find out how many stickers this is?
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1 Sketch arrays on squared paper to show the following fractions of quantities. (a) 1 __ 5 of 30 (c) 5 __ 8 of 32 (b) 2 __ 5 of 15 (d) 9 ___ 10 of 40
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