Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) Class 5 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Mathematics

This piece is too big. We can’t eat it”, they said. So he divided the pieces into half again.

Now, how many pieces will Ammu get?

What part of the halwa is it?

“Make it even smaller, Dad”, they asked
So he again cut the halwa into smaller pieces.
“Ok, thank you, Dad.”

Now how many pieces will each get?

What part of the halwa is each piece now?

If Ramesh had cut the halwa into 6 equal parts how many pieces would each have got? Look at your answers for questions 1 to 4 and write -

`1/2 = "______" = "______" = "______" = "______" = "______"`

Look at the picture. Write what part of the strip is each green piece. Write the part for a piece of each colour.

• How many one-fourths will make a half?
• How many `1/8` will make `1/4`?
• How many `1/8` will make `1/2`?
  

How did this happen? Discuss

There is a garden in Anu’s house. In the middle of the garden there is a path. They decided to tile the path using tiles of length 2 feet, 3 feet and 5 feet.

The mason tiled the first row with 2 feet tiles, the second row with 3 feet tiles and the third row with 5 feet tiles. The mason has not cut any of the tiles. Then what is the shortest length of the path?

In the grid here, a rectangle made of 20 boxes is drawn.
The width of this rectangle is 2 boxes.

• What is its length?

Colour a rectangle made of 20 boxes in some other way.

What is the length and width of the rectangle you coloured?

In how many ways can you colour a rectangle of 20 boxes? Colour them all in the grid, and write the length and width of each rectangle you have coloured.

There are 18 bangles on the rod. Meena is trying to group them. She can put them in groups of 2, 3, 6, 9, and 18 — without any bangle being left.

• How many groups will she have if she makes groups of 1 bangle each?

Now complete the table, for different numbers of bangles. For each number see what different groups can be made.

Write a news report about the dangers faced by the fish in our rivers and seas.

At what price per kg did Fazila sell the Kingfish?

Floramma has sold 10 kg prawns today. How much money did she get for that?

Gracy sold 6 kg swordfish. Mini has earned as much money as Gracy. How many kg of sardines did Mini sell?

Basheer has Rs 100. He spends one-fourth of the money on squid and another three-fourthon prawns. 

How many kilograms of squid did he buy?

Basheer has Rs 100. He spends one-fourth of the money on squid and another three-fourth on prawns.

How many kilograms of prawns did he buy?