A fraction divided by a whole number

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1
45÷6=
2
12÷5=
3
58÷3=
4
45÷2=
5
12÷9=
6
23÷8=
7
16÷6=
8
12÷5=
9
12÷4=
10
45÷4=
11
12÷8=
12
47÷4=
13
14÷3=
14
12÷3=
15
12÷7=
16
12÷8=
17
47÷3=
18
12÷6=
19
13÷2=
20
47÷6=

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 9.
Every problem in it will have a whole number on one side.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the first fraction was turned upside down instead of the second — it is the divisor that is inverted.
Answers are a fraction in its lowest terms, written like 3/4.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 110 different ones, 46% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.