Math Word Problems:
1) There are 16 farmers selling food at the market. Only 5 of them are selling corn. What fraction of the farmers are selling corn?
2) Sam is selling 6 baskets of onions. He sold 4 baskets of them by noon. What fraction of the baskets of onions does he have left to sell?
3) A farmer has 8 boxes of cabbage to sell at the market. She sells 3 boxes in the morning and 2 boxes in the afternoon. What fraction of the boxes of cabbage does she have left to sell?
4) John has 5 barrels full of nuts. He has 2 barrels of salted peanuts, 1 barrel of roasted peanuts, 1 barrel of pecans, and 1 barrel of walnuts. What fraction of these barrels contain peanuts.
Please show work. Draw pictures if you need to. Circle you answers.
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