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(d) (e) (f)

2. Shade the figure according to the given fraction:

7 11
(a) = (b) =
12 16

5 4
(c) = (d) =
6 9

3. Write the fraction for each statement:
(a) A fraction with numerator 3 and denominator 7.
(b) Salim ate three-fifth of a pizza.
(c) I have five-eighth of a marble collection.
(d) Renu plays for 5 hrs of a day. What fraction of the day she plays?
(e) Three pieces of cake are eaten by Reema out of 10 pieces. What fraction she ate?

4. There are 6 bananas but only one-third of them are ripe. How many are ripe?
5. Smriti has a collection of 20 movies, out of which 5 are cartoon movies and rest are comedy. What fraction of
comedy movies is?
6. There are 20 red and 15 yellow roses in a garden. What fraction of roses is yellow?
7. Suman spent one third of her money in shopping. If she had ` 63 with her, how much has she spent?

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8. of a group of children are girls. If there are 40 children in the group what fraction is boys? Find the number
5
of boys.

9. A craft store has a 9 metres spool of ribbon. A customers bought three metres of ribbon. What fraction of
ribbon is left with the shopkeeper?

10. Vicky purchased 500 g of apples out of 3 kg apples available with the vendor. What fraction of apple he took?

Representation of Fractions on Number line
We have learnt how to represent whole numbers and integers on the number line. Here, we will represent fraction
by following these steps:

Step 1: Draw a line and mark a point 0 (zero) on it and label it as O.
Step 2: Mark equal intervals on the number line towards the right of 0.
Step 3: Write 1, 2, 3... on the marks as numerators and denominators as given.
Step 4: Label the fraction with the desired numerator and denominator as ‘A’.