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Classroom Supplies

Use the following information to answer the questions below. Record your work on a separate sheet of paper.

Item Unit Cost
Pencils 12 per package $0.99
Pens 12 per package $1.98
Erasers 10 per package $1.29
Glue sticks 18 per package $3.49
Grade Number of Students
Third 80
Fourth 100
Fifth 150
  • 1 The third-grade teachers want to purchase 3 pencils for each student.

    How many packages of pencils do they need to buy?

    What is the total cost?

  • 2 The third-grade teachers want to purchase 1 glue stick for each student.

    How many packages of glue sticks do they need to buy?

    What is the total cost?

  • 3 The fourth-grade teachers want to purchase 2 erasers for each student.

    How many packages of erasers do they need to buy?

    What is the total cost?

  • 4 The fourth-grade teachers want to buy 2 pencils and 1 glue stick for each student.

    How many packages of pencils do they need to buy?

    Of glue sticks?

    What is the total cost?


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers Unit 2 Prisms and Solids Unit 3 Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks Unit 4 How Many People and Teams? Unit 5 Temperature, Height, and Growth Unit 6 Between 0 and 1 Unit 7 Races, Arrays, and Grids Unit 8 Properties of Polygons