Comparison Sentences
Make the following sentence into an equation: 5 times as many as 4 is 20
5 x 4 = 20
Estimate the product: 6 x 729
4,200
A bakery sells 238 cookies each day.
How many cookies does the bakery sell in 7 days?
1,666 cookies
There are 5 times as many yellow labs as terriers in the dog park. If there are 18 dogs at the dog park, how many yellow labs are there?
15 yellow labs
3 times as many as 6 is 18
Estimate the product: 6,823 x 2
14,000
harvests 875 apples from one orchard. He has 5 orchards of the same size.
How many apples does he harvest altogether?
4,375 apples
Dominic has 5 books with 12 postcards in each book. He has 4 boxes with 20 coins in each box. If he gives 15 post cards to a friend, how many post cards and coins does he have?
125 post cards abd coins left.
Make the following into a comparison sentence: 2 x 5 is 10
2 times as many as 5 is 10
Jane drinks 8 glasses of water each day. She says she will drink 2,920 glasses of water in a year that has 365 days. Is the exact answer reasonable?
Yes, the answer is reasonable because the product is estimated to be between 2,400 and 3,200.
A school has 324 books in one library. There are 5 libraries in the school.
How many books are there in total?
1,620 books.
Trina has 2 bags with 14 pinecones in each bag. She has 7 boxes with 15 acorns in each box. How many more acorns does she have than pine cones?
77 acorns.
Turn the following into a comparison sentences and a model: 3 x 4 = 12
3 times as many as 4 is 12
Most Americans throw away about 1,365 pounds of trash each year. Is it reasonable to estimate that American throw away over 10,000 pounds of trash in 5 years?
No, because the two numbers the product is estimated between is 5,000 and 10,000.
Emma printed 3,245 flyers for an event. She printed the same number of flyers for 4 different locations.
How many flyers did she print in total?
12,980 flyers.
Vadim has 3 times as many guppies as goldfish. If he has 28 fish, how many guppies does he have?
21 guppies.