Using a ruler, measure your pencil strip to within 12 inches and mark the measurement with an X above the ruler below. Using a ruler, measure your pencil strip to the nearest 14 inches and mark the measurement with an X above the ruler below. Using a ruler, measure your pencil strip to the nearest 18 inches and mark the measurement with an X above the ruler below.
What is the difference between the measurements of the longest and shortest pencils on each of the three lines. Write a sentence that describes how you could create a more precise ruler to measure your pencil strip. A meteorologist set up rain gauges at various locations around a city and recorded the rainfall amounts in the table below.
Carly gives each child 2 whole cereal bars and then divides the remaining cereal bar between the 3 children. Gina divides all the cereal bars into thirds and divides the thirds equally between the 3 children.
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If there are 15 liters of milk in the fridge, after how many days will it be necessary to buy more milk? If only half the milk is used each day, after how many days will more milk need to be purchased? How many boxes will Polly need to bring all the cupcakes to the party?
If the bakery completely fills as many boxes as possible, how much of the last box is empty.
If Greg spent half as much money and bought twice as many packs of cards, how much did he spend on each pack.
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If he divided the wool equally into 3 bags, how much wool would be in 2 bags.
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They rowed the same distance each day over the course of 3 days, covering a total of 14 miles. If the Calefs traveled half their daily distance each day, but extended their journey to twice as many days, how far would they travel.
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She sold 56 of the eggs at the farmers market and gave the rest to friends and neighbors.
She used 25 pieces of chocolate to make the glaze, and the rest to make cookies.
They used 58% of the dough to make a pizza and the rest to make calzones. What is the difference between the amount of dough they used to make pizza and the amount of dough they used to make calzones.
Collette bought milk for herself each month and recorded the amount in the table below. In April she bought 12 liters less than twice as much as she bought in August.
Fantine bought flour for her bakery every month and recorded the amount in the table to the right. In June, she bought 18 pounds less than three times what she bought in May.
By the time they reached the bottom, Jack's bucket was only 34 full, Jill's was 23 full, and Bill's was 16 full. If she divides the cookies equally among the students present, how many cookies will each student get?
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Create and solve a story problem about a baker and some flour whose solution is given by the expression. Create and solve a story problem about a baker and 36 kilograms of ingredients that is modeled by the following bar diagram. If 4 students were absent from each class on Monday, how many students are in each class?
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In an auditorium, 16 of the students are fifth graders, 13 are fourth graders, and 14 of the remaining students are second graders. Create and solve a story problem about two friends and their weekly allowance whose solution is given by the expression.
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He decides to devote 12 of his areas to planting flowers, and plants herbs on the rest.
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I had to cut a third and Cody only cut a quarter!” Explain to Sam the error in his thinking.
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What proportion of all baked goods at Laurita's Bakery are angel food cakes. He gave his youngest grandchild 15 of the ice cream and his middle grandchild 14 of the leftover ice cream. He then gave his eldest grandchild 13 of the ice cream left over after he served the others.
What fraction of the pint of ice cream will remain if Grandpa Mick serves himself the same amount as the second grandchild.
He kept 59 of his corn in one large silo and 34 of the remaining corn in a small silo.
Moussa delivered 38 newspapers on his route in the first hour and 45 of the rest in the second hour. She used 35 of the spinach in a pan of spinach pie for a party and 34 of the leftover spinach for a pan for her family. If Rose used 3 pounds of spinach to make the pan of spinach pie for the party, how many pounds of spinach did Rose use to make the salad?
Milani puts 14 of her money for mowing the lawn into savings and uses 12 of the remaining money to pay her sister.
If each student got one vote, but there were 25 students absent on the day of the vote, how many students are there at Riverside Elementary School. Did girls who voted for blue make up more than or less than half of all votes.
After only 4 tenths of a 2.5 mile race was completed, Lenox took the lead and stayed there until the end of the race.
If he pours 3 tenths of lemonade into a glass, how many liters of lemonade are in the glass.
If each pound of chicken breast costs $3.70, how much will she pay for the chicken breast? The surface of the living room is one and a half times that of the kitchen.
The area of the playground is one and a half times that of the swimming pool.
This time, the scale says Sarah has 14 ounces of vanilla yogurt in her cup.
Can you use his ideas to show another way to find the decimal equal to 18.
Write a statement using one of the following sentences to compare the value of the expressions.
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The short trip is followed by a long trip, 523 times longer than the short trip, for adults. If a woman makes the short bike ride with her children and then the long ride with her friends, how many miles does she ride in total? In the fifth grade at Lenape Elementary School, there are 45 students who don't wear glasses as well as those who don't.
If there are 60 students who wear glasses, how many students are there in the fifth grade. How much does the company pay all three employees for one hour of work.
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They make 18 pound bags of nut mix, 14 pound bags of cherries and 16 pound bags of dried fruit. If they buy 3 pounds of mixed nuts, 5 pounds of cherries, and 4 pounds of dried fruit, how many of each type of snack bag will they be able to make.
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How many quarts of olive oil did she use in each batch of salad dressing? How many cups of olive oil did she use in each batch of salad dressing? He always puts 34 of his weekly earnings into his savings account and then divides the rest equally into 3 piggy banks to spend at the grocery store, the arcade, and the subway.
If Mariano adds $2.40 to each piggy bank each week, how much does Mariano earn per week dealing cards?
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If each glass has 3 fluid ounces of water in it, how many fluid ounces of water were in the full pitcher?
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If each bowl has 6 ounces of blueberries in it, how many ounces of blueberries were in the full bowl?
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If he pours 0.2 kg of sugar into separate bags, how many bags of sugar can he make. If he pours 0.4 kg of sugar into separate bags, how many bags of sugar can he make. If he ships 5 large boxes, what is the minimum number of small boxes needed to ship the remaining oranges.
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If she makes each bean bag 0.8 pound, how many bean bags will she be able to make? If she instead decides to make mini beanbags that are half as heavy, how many can she make.
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If volunteers set up a water station every 0.7 km, including one at the finish, how many stations will they have? If volunteers set up a first aid station every 0.9 km, including one at the finish, how many stations will they have? If he divides the total amount into 0.3 liter test tubes, how many test tubes does he need?
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Choose the expression below that matches the story problem and write it in the blank.
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In the same store, Kahri spends a third of the money on grapefruit as Carlo. How many times will a ruby-throated hummingbird flap its wings at a time?
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