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Exercise 7.1

1. Write the fraction representing the shaded portion:
(a) (b) (c) (d)

(e) (f) (g) (h)

2. Shade the portion according to the fraction given:
(a) (b) (c) (d)

2 1 5 3
3 4 6 8

3. The number of students play ing in the ground were 25. There were 15 boys. What frac tion of the
students in the playground are girls?

4. Kavita invited 30 friends on her birth day. Only 20 friends turned up. What frac tion of friends did
not attend her party?

5. Write the natural numbers from 12 to 21. What fraction of them are prime numbers?

Representation of Fractions on the Number Line

Fractions on the Number Line :
We have learnt to express the whole numbers on a number line. Here, we will learn to express the
1
fractions on number line. First of all draw a number line. On this number line we express . We know that
2
1 1
is greater than 0 and less than 1. So, it should lie between 0 and 1. As means 1 part out of 2, we will
2 2
1
divide the gap between 0 and 1 into two equal parts and mark and 1 as shown below.
2

O 1 1
2

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