NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________
HOMEWORK
Birds have 2 legs.
Hamsters have 4 legs.
Beetles have 6 legs.
1 There are 52 legs and they all belong to hamsters. How many hamsters are there?
2 There are 4 beetles, 5 hamsters, and 11 birds in the house. How many legs are there altogether?
3 There are 32 legs in the house. All the legs belong to birds, hamsters, and beetles. How many of each creature—birds, hamsters, and beetles—might be in the house?
There are many possible answers. How many can you find? Use the table below to show different solutions to this problem.
Birds | Hamsters | Beetles |
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NOTE
Students solve multiplication and division problems in story problem contexts.