1. Fraction of a quantity (without a calculator)
Example Find of 24
Example Find of 45
Example Find of 80
Example Find of 24
Example Find of 48

2. Example
Work out each of the following:
(a) of 65
(b) of 63
(c) of 32
(d) of 81
(e) of 48

3. Example
A firm makes armchairs each with a mass of 104kg. Three eighths of each chair is made of wood and the rest is of plastic. For each chair, what mass is used of
(a) wood (b) plastic?

4. Example
A book has 860 pages. Three twentieths of the pages have pictures on them, and the rest are worded. How many pages have on them
(a) pictures (b) words?

5. Example
A roll of curtain material which is 2400cm long, is found to have a flaw running of the way along its length.
a) What length is faulty?
b) What length is still good?

6. Fraction of a quantity (with a calculator)
Example Find of £3.96

7. Example
Mr Adams earns £ a week. If he gives two sevenths of his wage to his children, how much does he have for himself?
A full lorry has a mass of 13.2 tonnes. Five eighths of this mass is the load and the rest is the mass of the lorry.
Find
a) the mass of the load
b) the mass of the lorry.

8. Example
A second-hand car cost Mr Davidson £ After two years he wanted to trade it in for another, and the garage offered him of this amount. How much was he offered?

9. Example
A salesman spends 44 hours in one week travelling by car and train. If of this time is by car, how many hours is this?

10. Example
of the houses on an estate are bungalows. of the bungalows have only two bedrooms. of the two bed roomed bungalows have central heating. If there are 1620 houses on the estate, how many two bed roomed bungalows do not have central heating?

11. Example
In a village of 420 people, are children under 16 years of age, are boys; and of these boys are under 7 years old. How many boys under the age of 7 are there in this village?