Mike is downloading a complete hard drive onto his new computer.

It should take 24 minutes to download the full hard drive.

Mike loses his internet connection when  `5/6`  of the hard drive is downloaded.

How many more minutes are needed for Mike to complete the download?

Stephan makes 14 loaves of bread to sell at his bakery.

Each loaf takes  `1/4`  cup of sugar.

After he makes each loaf, he counts how many cups of sugar he uses in total.
 

`1/4, \ 1/2, \ 3/4, \ 1, \ 1 1/4, \ 1 1/2, …`
 

Which is the last number he will count?

In Patrick's school, `3/7` of the students live within 5 kilometres .

There are 742 students at Patrick's school.

How many students live within 5 kilometres?

Polly, Roger and Milly are splitting up two identical chocolate bars.

Polly takes `1/4` of the first chocolate bar and `3/8` of the second bar.

Roger takes `1/2` of the first chocolate bar and `1/4` of the second bar.

What fraction of each bar did Milly get?

A bag of flour weighs `3/4` of a kilogram.

Peter buys two bags.

How many kilograms of flour does Peter buy?

A wildlife sanctuary has 240 Tasmanian devils.

Of the 240 devils, `3/8` of them weigh more than 6 kilograms.

Of the devils that weigh more than 6 kilograms, `1/3` weigh more than 7 kilograms.

How many devils in the sanctuary weigh more than 7 kilograms.

Megan has  `1/8`  cup of sugar.

She needs  `1 1/2`  cups of sugar for a cake recipe she is using.

How much more sugar does Megan need for the recipe?

Murray has 36 red plums and 18 purple plums.

What fraction of the plums are red?

A coffee jar weighs 2400 grams when it is purchased.
 

 
When exactly half of the coffee has been used, the half full jar has a mass of 1750 grams.

What is the mass of the coffee jar when all the coffee has been used?

The height of a garage is 270 cm.

Barry has a car that is  `5/9`  of the height of the garage.

What is the height of Barry's car?

A walking path near the beach is paved for half the length, cobbled stone for `3/10` of the length and then grass for the rest of the path.

For what fraction of the path is it grass?

Ali has a bag of marbles. The marbles are either blue, black or orange.

`1/6`  of her marbles are blue and  `1/4`  are black.

What fraction of her marbles are orange?

Damon bought 2 identical bags of salt for his swimming pool.

After he used  `2/3`  of one bag in the pool, he had a total of 20 kilograms of salt left.

How many kilograms of salt were in one full bag?

Bogdan grows large turnips in his garden.

One turnip he picks weighs 1.2 kg.

Bogdan cuts 300 grams off the turnip to cook with.

What fraction has he used for cooking?

A swim squad normally do 60 laps per training session.

On a light training day, they only do two thirds of the laps of a normal session.

How many laps do they do in a light session?

Candy has read  `3/16`  of her new book.

If her new book has 400 pages, how many pages has she read?

Kate has read  `3/8`  of the first Harry Potter novel.

Which decimal shows how much of the book Kate has read?

Scarlett has 8 cups of sugar. A muffin recipe uses  `2/3`  of a cup of sugar for each muffin.

What is the greatest number of muffins Scarlett can make?

Alison's petrol tank was empty.

She then spent $55 filling her tank up to half way at a cost of $1.55 per litre.

Approximately how much petrol can Alison's petrol tank hold when it is full?

Luke had `6` cups of sugar.

He used `1/2` cup of sugar for one recipe and `2 1/4` cups of sugar for another recipe.

How many cups of sugar did Luke have left?