Multiply and Divide Fractions

Multiply or Divide? Are the following questions asking you to multiply or divide? MULTIPLY 1 of 36 Eric practiced for his piano recital 3 hour every day last week. How many hours did Eric practice last week? Mike bought 15 baseball cards. Rookie players are featured on 3 of the cards. How many cards feature rookie players? The caterer wants to have enough turkey to feed 24 people. If he wants to provide 3 of a pound of turkey for each person, how much turkey does he need? DIVIDE 40 split into 5 equal groups 5 friends are sharing a 1 of a gallon of juice. How much juice does each person get? The dragon costume for the new year celebration is 9 yards long. If Brittany sews a button on each 1 –yard section, how many buttons will she sew? Henry cuts 5 sandwiches into thirds. How many pieces of sandwich will Henry have now? Ashton picked 6 pounds of pecans. He used 1 of the pecans in a recipe. Ashton puts the pecans that are left in 1 -pound bags. How many bags of pecans does he have? 16 2 8 1 Holly had 23 pencils. She gave 7 pencils to her friends. Three-eighths of her remaining pencils need to be sharpened.How many of Holly's pencils need to be sharpened? 6 2 9 16 Thomas makes 3 sandwiches that he cuts into thirds.How many 1 - size sandwich pieces does he have? 3 9 1 1 Ants are lined up along the edges of your sandwich at a picnic.If the sandwich is 7 inches around and each ant is 1 of an inch, how many ants are lined up around the sandwich? 12 28 11 14