Independent Practice Name _____________________________ Date _________
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1) Ms. Jones has 137 flowers for a wedding dinner. She puts 3 flowers in a vase
at the entrance and wants to put the rest of the flowers in equal numbers at
each of 9 tables. (Can you picture in your mind what she is doing?)
a) Estimate how many flowers would go on each table. Round each number
first. 140 – 5 = _____, then divide _____ by 10
Explain.__________________________________________________
b) Exactly how many flowers would go on each of the 9 tables? 137 – 3 = ___
then divide by the number of tables.
Write an equation. 134 ÷ _____ = ______
c) Is your answer reasonable? Explain. (Is it close to the estimate?)
d) If you divided and have a remainder, what does the remainder mean?(You
divided the number of flowers by the number of tables, what would be left
over?) _______________________________________________________
2) For the wedding party Mr. Jones bought 3 packages of chicken wings. Each
package had 37 wings in it. He will serve each guest 2 wings.
a) What is the total number of guests he can serve? 3 X _____ = total wings
Total wings ÷ _________ = number of guests he can serve
Write an equation.________________________________________
b) Is your answer reasonable? Explain. (Round the numbers to get an
estimate. Is the estimate close to the answer?)__________________
c) If you had a remainder, what does the remainder mean? (You divided the
number of wings by 2, so what does the remainder mean? What is left
over?)
3)
Liam will buy decorations for the tables. He plans to buy ribbon for $29; bells
for $35; cloth for $16; and tax is $4. His sister likes the idea so much, she asks
him to double the purchase, so that she could make the same decorations for
a friend’s party.
a) What is an estimate for the amount of money needed for all decorations?
(Round the numbers) To double means to multiply by ?
_________________________
b) Exactly how much total money is needed for all decorations?
_______________________________________________________
c) Write an equation. ________________________________________
d) Is your answer reasonable? Is it close to your estimate? Explain.
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