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How Many Miles?

Solve these problems about the Jones family's car trip. Show your solutions so that someone else can understand how you solved the problems.

  • 1 In the first week of their trip, the Jones family drove 427 miles from their home in Ohio to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. After their visit there, they drove 733 miles to Virginia Beach. How many miles did they drive altogether?

  • 2 In the second week, the Jones family drove 270 miles from Virginia Beach to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to see the Liberty Bell. From Philadelphia, they drove to New York City, which is 96 miles away. How many miles did they drive altogether from Virginia Beach to New York City?

  • 3 In the third week, the Jones family went to two more places in New York state. They drove 259 miles to see the Harriet Tubman House in Auburn, New York, and then 138 more miles to see Niagara Falls. Then it was time to go home, which was 235 miles away from Niagara Falls. How many miles did the Jones family drive in the third week of their trip?


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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