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Exercise 6.5

Solve the following word problems.
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(a) The length and breadth of a rectangular piece of land are 5 m and 6 m respectively.
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Find the sum of all the sides of the land.
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(b) An oil container had 2 L of oil. Aarushi poured 7 L more oil into it. Find the total quantity
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of oil in the container.
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(c) A recipe needs 3 cups of milk and cups of curd. How much more milk does it need
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than curd?
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(d) Akshay took of an hour to paint a picture. Rishi finished his painting in of an hour.
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Who took longer to paint the picture and by how much?
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(e) In a music class, of the total students play musical instruments. If of these students,
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play string instruments, what fraction of students play string instruments?
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(f) Tanu spent 1 hours doing her homework. Shreya spent twice as many hours doing her
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homework as Tanu did. How many more hours did Shreya spend doing her homework?
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(g) A car covered 115 km in 2 hours. How much distance did it cover in 1 hour?
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Review Exercise

1. Find three equivalent fractions for each of the following fractions.

12 6 7 21 31 16
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
19 13 19 43 52 38

2. Convert the following improper fractions to mixed fractions.

164 132 294 197 343 578
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
11 37 29 25 26 19
3. Reduce the following fractions to their lowest terms.

1 106 214 408 465 114
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
90 214 324 764 651 171
4. Solve the following.

2 3 3 2 1 19 4
(a) 6 + 1 + 2 (b) – (c) of 126 (d) ÷
5 15 9 11 14 20 5

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