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Shark Attack!

Shown below are sharks found around the world and their typical weights, in pounds.

Answer the following questions, using the information shown above. Try to do some of the problems mentally. Show your written work on another sheet of paper.

• 1 A Florida fisherman caught a bull shark and a spinner shark. What is the combined weight?

• 2 Some newspapers reported that a great white shark with a weight of 7,032 pounds was caught off the coast of Cuba in 1945. Some scientists, however, think that the story is just a fish tale. What is the difference between the weight of the legendary Cuban great white shark and the weight of a typical great white shark?

NOTE

Students practice solving addition and subtraction problems.

MWI Place Value: Large Numbers

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