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Mrs. Robbins uses 2/3 of a cup of sugar when making a batch of cookies. How many cups of sugar will Ms. Bottemiller need to make 5 batches of cookies?
10/3 = 3 1/3 cup of sugar
What is 1 2/5 + 3 3/4?
1 8/20 + 3 15/20 = 4 23/20 = 5 3/20
Mrs. Snider is buying doughnuts for the staff meeting, there are 115 staff members. Should she round to the nearest hundred or ten when she is buying them?
Mrs. Snider should round the nearest ten so she buys 120 doughnuts, if she rounds to the nearest hundred, she won’t have enough for all the staff.
Ms. Foster’s dream car costs $12,899. She has saved up 1 ten thousand dollar check, 17 hundred dollar bills, and 19 one dollar bills. Does she have enough money to buy the car?
No, she doesn’t have enough money saved. She has saved $11,719 so far.
Write 5,376 in expanded form.
(5 x 1,000) + (3 x 100) + (7 x 10) + (6 x 1)
10 grams = ____ milligrams
10,000 milligrams 1 gram=1,000 milligrams
Mr. Rieke was setting up benches for the Spring Concert. He expects that 978 people will come to the concert. Each bench can hold 8 people. How many benches should he set up?
He should set up 123 benches. If he only set up 122 benches, two people would not have a place to sit.
What is the relationship between the value of the 5 in the hundreds place and the 5 in the thousands place in the number 325,532?
The 5 in the hundreds place is equal to 500 and the 5 in the thousands place is equal to 5,000 so the 5 in the hundreds place is 10 times smaller than the 5 in the thousands place.