Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space, Student Activity Book [Grade 5]

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HOMEWORK

Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers Practice

Solve the problems below. Show your work.

  • 1 There are 5 cookies on a plate. Alicia eats 1 , and 1 half cookies. Stuart eats 2 , and 1 third cookies. How many cookies are left on the plate?

  • 2 A small tank holds 5 , and 4 fifths gallons of water. A large tank holds 8 , and 1 half gallons of water. How much more water does the large tank hold?

  • 3 Mercedes had 6 , and 2 thirds cups of flour. She used 3 , and 1 fourth cups of flour to bake a cake. How much flour does Mercedes have left?

  • 4 Tavon and Hana were riding their bikes. They biked 3 , and 4 fifths miles and then stopped for a drink of water. Then they biked 2 , and 3 eighths miles more. How many miles did they bike?

NOTE

Students solve story problems by adding and subtracting mixed numbers.

MWI Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators


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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