Dividing Fractions Exercises
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Course: | RWM101: Foundations of Real World Math copy 1 |
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Date: | Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 10:41 PM |
Description

Dividing Fractions
Are you ready to show what you have learned? Complete this assessment to practice dividing fractions and check your answers. If you need more practice, do Problem Sets 2 and 3. Once you are comfortable dividing fractions, you will be ready to use this skill to solve word problems.
Problem Set 1
Perform each division operation.
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\(3 \div \dfrac{2}{5}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{5}{8} \div \dfrac{3}{4}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{3}{10} \div \dfrac{1}{2} \div \dfrac{6}{5}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{8}{7} \div 4= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{2}{3} \div \dfrac{5}{9}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{11}{2} \div 10 \div \dfrac{5}{4}= \text{______}\)
Problem Set 2
Perform each division operation.
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\(10 \div \dfrac{5}{3}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{7}{12} \div \dfrac{5}{4}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{3}{10} \div 2 \div \dfrac{9}{10}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{4}{9} \div 12= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{20}{7} \div \dfrac{15}{14}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{5}{18} \div \dfrac{4}{9} \div \dfrac{7}{8}= \text{______}\)
Problem Set 3
Perform each division operation.
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\(\dfrac{8}{3} \div 6= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{1}{2} \div \dfrac{2}{3}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{4}{3} \div \dfrac{2}{9} \div 2= \text{______}\)
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\(18 \div \dfrac{9}{10}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{33}{16} \div \dfrac{11}{12}= \text{______}\)
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\(\dfrac{13}{15} \div \dfrac{3}{20} \div \dfrac{26}{3}= \text{______}\)
Source: Algebra2Go, https://www.saddleback.edu/faculty/Lperez/Algebra2Go/prealgebra/fractions/fractionDiv.html
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Answers
Problem Set 1
\(15/2\)
\(5/6\)
\(1 / 2\)
\(2 / 7 \)
\(6 / 5\)
- \(11/25\)
Problem Set 2
\(6\)
\(7 / 15\)
\(1 / 6\)
\(1 / 27\)
\( 8/3\)
- \(5 /7\)
Problem Set 3
\(4 / 9\)
\(3 / 4\)
\(3\)
\(20\)
\(9 / 4\)
- \(2 / 3\)