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SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS 6. In class VI-A having 45 students, 15 are girls. In
VI-B having 30 students, 12 are girls. In which
F. Solve the following word problems
class section is the fraction of girls greater?
1. What fraction of a day is 16 hrs?
2. What fraction of a kg is 550 g? 7. Aastha studied for 11 hours, where her sister
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3. A box has 5 white balls, 10 red balls and 15 black 7
balls. Find the fraction of: Siddhie studied for 12 hours on a particular day.
(i) black balls (ii) red balls Who studied for a shorter time?

(iii) white balls
8. Three friends Sanjay, Manoj and Rajesh rented a
4. In a class of 45 students, 15 students like
1
mathematics. What fraction of the students does not house. Sanjay occupied of the accommodation
2
like mathematics? 1
and Manoj occupied of the accommodation.
5. A chocolate is divided into 8 equal parts and Rahul 3
ate 5 parts of it. What fraction did Rahul eat? What How much accommodation was left for Rajesh?
fraction is left?

INTEGRATED QUESTION

About 71% of earth’s surface is made up of water bodies like ocean, lakes, and rivers
etc. The remaining 29 per cent of earth’s surface is land, consisting of continents and

islands. The table given below shows the approximate fraction of landmass occupied
by different continents.

Look at the table given below and answer the following questions.

Name of Continents Africa Antarctica Asia Australia Europe North America South America

Approximate fraction 1 9 3 11 7 33 3
of earth’s landmass 5 100 10 200 100 100 25

1. Arrange the continents according to the area of their landmass in ascending order.

2. What is the difference between the landmass covered by North America and Australia?
3. What is the sum of the landmass covered by Australia, Africa and Asia?