Assessment Resource Banks

Gardening time

This task is about percentages and fractions.

Malachi and Tori did some gardening for Mr Langford.

a) This is how Malachi spent his time.

$1 \over 2$ weeding $1 \over 5$ digging $3 \over 10$ trimming

Malachi and Tori did some gardening for Mr Langford.

a) This is how Malachi spent his time.

$1 \over 2$ weeding $1 \over 5$ digging $3 \over 10$ trimming

What percentage of the time did Malachi spend ...

i) weeding? %

ii) digging? %

iii) trimming? %

b) This is how Tori spent her time.

b) This is how Tori spent her time.

Write each of the percentages of how Tori spent her time as fractions in their simplest form.

i) mowing

ii) pruning

iii) sweeping

iv) trimming