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Pizza Fraction

About this exercise

Fractions shown as slices of a circle.

Example problems

A few of the problems this exercise asks. The printable worksheet holds ten fresh ones.

  1. A pizza is cut into 5 equal slices. 1 slice is eaten. What fraction of the pizza was eaten?
  2. A pizza is cut into 10 equal slices. 7 slices are eaten. What fraction of the pizza was eaten?
  3. A pizza is cut into 5 equal slices. 2 slices are eaten. What fraction of the pizza was eaten?
  4. A pizza is cut into 12 equal slices. 7 slices are eaten. What fraction of the pizza was eaten?

Try it yourself first — open a section below only if you get stuck.

How to solve it

Count the total slices for the denominator and the ones taken or left for the numerator, then simplify.

Worked example

Four slices out of eight is four eighths, which is a half.

Common mistake

Answering the wrong half of the question. Slices eaten and slices remaining are different fractions.