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DAILY PRACTICE

Solving Multiplicative Comparison Problems

Solve each problem and show how you solved it. Write an equation for each problem.

  • 1 Over the summer Noemi read 9 books. Sei read 4 times as many books. How many books did Sei read?

  • 2 Benson's tomato plant is 3 feet tall. His corn plant is twice as tall as his tomato plant. How tall is his corn plant?

  • 3 Luke has lived in Suntown for 6 years. Yuson has lived in Suntown for 3 times as many years. How many years has Yuson lived in Suntown?

  • 4 Lake Chelan in Washington State is 55 miles long. Lake Chelan is 5 times as long as Long Lake in Maine. How long is Long Lake?

NOTE

Students solve multiplicative comparison problems.


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison Unit 2 Generating and Representing Measurement Data Unit 3 Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems Unit 4 Measuring and Classifying Shapes Unit 5 Large Numbers and Landmarks Unit 6 Fraction Cards and Decimal Grids Unit 7 How Many Packages and Groups? Unit 8 Penny Jars and Towers