Division of a fraction - class-VIII
Practice problems on dividing fractions, including complex fractions, mixed numbers, and word problems for Class VIII students.
Questions
Evaluate: $\dfrac{(3\dfrac{2}{3})^{2} -(2\dfrac{1}{2})^{2}}{(4\dfrac{3}{2})^{2} -(3\dfrac{1}{3})^{2}}$ $\div$ $\dfrac{3\dfrac{2}{3} -2\dfrac{1}{2}}{4\dfrac{3}{2} -3\dfrac{1}{3}}$
- $\dfrac{35}{53}$
- $\dfrac{37}{53}$
- $\dfrac{42}{59}$
- $\dfrac{47}{60}$
Solve $\left[\dfrac{170}{3} +\dfrac{6}{7}\right] \div \left[\dfrac{2}{7} \times \dfrac{11}{2}\right]$
- $\dfrac{1208}{3\times 11}$
- $\dfrac{1208}{11}$
- $\dfrac{1208}{3}$
- $\dfrac{1208}{9\times 11}$
Divide the difference of $\dfrac{1}{5}$ and $\dfrac{2}{7}$ by $\dfrac{2}{7}$.
- $\dfrac{1}{10}$
- $\dfrac{21}{10}$
- $\dfrac{3}{10}$
- $\dfrac{4}{10}$
Simplify $35\times 6\dfrac{1}{14}$(approximately)$=$
- $220.5$
- $220$
- $212$
- $231$
A ribbon of length $5\dfrac{1}{4}$m is cut in to small pieces each of length $\dfrac{3}{4}$ m number of pieces will be
- $5$
- $6$
- $7$
- $8$
If $Rs.510$ be divided among $A,B,C$ in such a way that $A$ gets $\dfrac{2}{3}$ of what $B$ gets and $B$ gets $\dfrac{1}{4}$ of what $C$ gets, then their shares are respectively:
- $Rs.120, Rs.240, Rs.150$
- $Rs.60, Rs.90, Rs.360$
- $Rs.150, Rs.300, Rs.60$
- $None\ of\ these$
Simplify : $\displaystyle \frac{2+2\times 2}{2\div 2\times 2}\div \frac{\frac{1}{2}\div \frac{1}{2} , \text{of} , \frac{1}{2}}{\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2} , \text{of} , \frac{1}{2}}$
- $1$
- $2$
- $\displaystyle 1\frac{1}{3}$
- $\displaystyle 1\frac{1}{8}$
Find the value of $ \cfrac{2}{3}\times \cfrac{3}{\tfrac{5}{6}\div \tfrac{2}{3} , \text {of} , ,1\tfrac{1}{4}}$
- $2$
- $1$
- $\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{2}{3}$
What is the simplified value of $\displaystyle \frac{\frac{1}{3}\div \frac{1}{3}\times\frac{1}{3}}{\frac{1}{3}\div \frac{1}{3}of\frac{1}{3}}-\frac{1}{9}?$
- $0$
- $2$
- $\dfrac{1}{9}$
- $\dfrac{2}{9}$
Sunny was given $\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}$ of a sum of money and Ankur was given $\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}$ of what was left. What is Ankur's share as a fraction of Sunny's Share?
- $\displaystyle \frac{2}{9}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{2}{3}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{1}{9}$
If we multiply a fraction by itself and divide the product by its reciprocal the fraction thus
obtained is $\displaystyle 18\frac{26}{27}$. The original fraction is
- $\displaystyle \frac{8}{27}$
- $\displaystyle 2\frac{2}{3}$
- $\displaystyle 1\frac{1}{2}$
- None of these
Find the value of $\displaystyle \frac{2}{1+\frac{1}{1-\frac{1}{2}}}\times\frac{3}{\frac{5}{6}of\frac{3}{2}\div 1\frac{1}{4}}$
- $2$
- $5$
- $6$
- $1$
Simplify : $\displaystyle \left [ 3\frac{1}{4}\div \left { 1\frac{1}{4}-\frac{1}{2}\left ( 2\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{4}-\frac{1}{6} \right ) \right } \right ]\div \left ( \frac{1}{2}of4\frac{1}{3} \right )$
- 18
- 36
- 39
- 78
15 of $\displaystyle \frac{1}{5}$ is
- $\displaystyle \frac{1}{75}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{151}{5}$
- 3
- -3
Place value chart is extended on .............. side to provide place for fractions
- right
- left
- no
- None of these
The fraction $\displaystyle \frac{9}{4}$ can be written as
- $\displaystyle \dfrac{\dfrac{9}{2}}{\dfrac{4}{2}}$
- $\displaystyle \dfrac{\dfrac{9}{4}}{1}$
- $\displaystyle \dfrac{\dfrac{9}{5}}{\dfrac{4}{5}}$
- $\displaystyle \dfrac{\dfrac{7}{6}}{\dfrac{9}{4}}$
Which of the following is complex fraction?
- $\dfrac{6\dfrac{1}{3}}{9}$
- $\dfrac{4}{9}$
- $\dfrac{5}{9}$
- $\dfrac{8}{9}$
Divide $\dfrac35$ by $4$.
- $\dfrac{12}5$
- $\dfrac3{20}$
- $\dfrac{12}{20}$
- $\dfrac35$
Divide $\dfrac{25}{36}$ by $5$.
- $\dfrac{5}{6}$
- $\dfrac{25}{6}$
- $\dfrac{5}{36}$
- $\dfrac{36}{5}$
Divide $\dfrac45$ by $2$.
- $\dfrac25$
- $\dfrac15$
- $\dfrac85$
- None of these
If we divide $1$ by a fraction $x$, we get ______ $x$.
- same fraction as
- reciprocal of
- double of
- half of
Divide $10$ by $\dfrac{20}{19}$.
- $\dfrac{19}{2}$
- $\dfrac{1}{20}$
- $\dfrac{19}{20}$
- $\dfrac{9}{2}$
Simplify the following:
$\dfrac {3}{8} \div \dfrac {24}{48} =\dfrac{3}{4}$
- True
- False
Divide the sum of $\displaystyle\frac{65}{12}$ and $\displaystyle\frac{12}{7}$ by their difference.
- $\displaystyle\frac{599}{311}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{680}{216}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{642}{133}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{501}{301}$
Divide $\dfrac{15}{38}$ by $\dfrac{-3}{19}$
- $\dfrac{-2}{5}$
- $\dfrac{-5}{2}$
- $\dfrac{2}{5}$
- $\dfrac{5}{2}$
Evaluate the following :
- $\displaystyle \frac {5 }{24}$
- $\displaystyle \frac {20}{7}$
- $\displaystyle \frac {2}{7}$
- $\displaystyle \frac {21}{5}$
$I = \displaystyle \frac{3}{4}\div \frac{5}{6}$
$III = [3\displaystyle \div (4\displaystyle \div 5)]\displaystyle \div 6$
- I and II are equal
- I and IV are equal
- I and III are equal
- All are equal
The least fraction that must be added to $\displaystyle1\frac{1}{3}\div 1\frac{1}{2}\div 1\frac{1}{9}$ to make the result an integer is:
- $\displaystyle\frac{4}{5}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{3}{5}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{2}{5}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{1}{5}$
If $a=1\frac{3}{4}$ and $b=1\frac{2}{3}$ then the false statement is
- $\frac{a}{b}=\frac{b}{a}$
- $a\div b \neq b \div a$
- $a\times b=b\times a$
- $a\div b=ab$