Showing posts with label numerator. Show all posts
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P6 Math: 3 Different Fractions of 3 Different Totals

This question type shows 2 fractions of 2 different totals.
The 3rd fraction shows the relationship between the 2 numerators above.

Such questions are common in Paper 1 of P6 Exams(Mid Year and Prelims)
Calculator usage is not allowed.

Mr Teo owns an aquarium that sells goldfish and guppies.
On a particular day, he sold 1/3 of the goldfish and 5/11 of the guppies.
8/13 of the fish sold that day were goldfish.

What fraction of all his fish were sold that day?

                                                1)    26/33

                                                2)    26/35

                                                3)    13/35

                                                4)    6/11



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P4 Math: Shaded/Unshaded Fraction of Figure

A figure with constructed of multiple boxes is partially shaded.

Student will need to be able to count the boxes shaded or unshaded and write it as a fraction of the total. Students are expected to know how to write these fractions in simplest form and also to write down the correct numerator that represents either the shaded or unshaded region ( based on what the question is asking for.

This question often appears in Section B of P4 exams.

What fraction of the pie has been removed?
What fraction of the pie is remaining?


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P5/P6 Math: Comparing Fractions with a Whole Number

Being able to compare fractions requires quite a few skills.


- Comparing with "HALF"
- Comparing with "ONE WHOLE"
- Comparing Numerators when "DENOMINATORS ARE THE SAME"
- Comparing Denominators when "NUMERATORS ARE THE SAME"

The following question requires students to be able to compare 4 fractions with a whole number to determine which is the nearest fraction.

The key to find correct nearest/closest fraction is by looking at the "difference" or the "gap"

Such questions appear in Paper 1.
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P6 Math: Units and Parts (Fractions of different items) Part 2

This question uses 2 different fractions to represent 2 different groups of items. 

Each denominator represents a different total.
Such questions are referred to as "units and parts".

A similar version of the question can also be found "here".

These questions will usually appear in P6 Exams Paper 2 and often appears in P6 Prelims.
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650 children visited the Singapore Zoo on a Sunday morning.
By 3pm, 4/5 of the girls and 3/4 of the boys left the zoo and went home.
There were 58 more girls than boys whom stayed on at the zoo after 3pm.

How many girls were there at the Zoo on Sunday morning at first?


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P5/P6 Math: Comparing Fractions MCQ

Being able to compare fractions requires quite a few skills.

- Comparing with "HALF"
- Comparing with "ONE WHOLE"
- Comparing Numerators when "DENOMINATORS ARE THE SAME"
- Comparing Denominators when "NUMERATORS ARE THE SAME"

Such questions appear in Paper 1.
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Which of these fractions is smaller than 1/5?

1)     2/6   
2)     3/10
3)     2/11
4)     3 /12

Some random pictures of how to see "FRACTIONS"


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P6 Math: Fractions (Expert Level)

The following question type requires students to be able to look into each numerator and denominator to find a common one to make the same.

Such questions will usually appear in P6 exams in Paper 2.
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In a school, 1/3 of the male students were absent and
1/4 of the female students were absent on Monday.
7/10 of all the students were present that day.
There were a total of 440 female students in that school.

How many male students were present on Monday?


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P5/P6 Fractions (Before and After)

The following question type require students to understand what each numerator and denominator represents.

There will be 

fraction of the "total"
fraction of "one type"
fraction of "left"

Such questions usually appear in P5 SA2 and P6 exam papers in paper 2.

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There are equal number of gray and brown jackets for sale in the store.
After 1/2 of the gray jackets and some brown jackets were sold,
the amount of jackets remaining was 1/3 of the total number of jackets for sale in the store.

What fraction of the remaining jackets are brown?


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P6 Math: Units and Parts (Fractions of different items) Part 1

This question uses 2 different fractions to represent 2 different groups of items.

Each denominator represents a different total.
Such questions are referred to as "units and parts".

A similar version of the question can also be found "here".

These questions will usually appear in P6 Exams Paper 2 and often appears in P6 Prelims.
Calculator usage is allowed.


In the morning,
there were a total of 387 boys and girls visiting the Science Center.

At 12 p.m. noon,
5/7 of the girls and 7/10 of the boys went home.

There were only 114 girls and boys remaining at the premises.

How many girls were there at first? 


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