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"Math 5 Number and Operations - Fractions"

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This is a question with 2 parts, including a fill in the blank question that allows you to enter only numbers.

What is the value of 57−13?

Enter your answer as a fraction in the spaces provided.

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This is a multiple choice question that allows you to select only one option.

Tom travels 323 miles to school every day. Sara travels 35 of Tom’s distance.

How many miles does Sara travel to school?

  1. A.
    215
  2. B.
    3115
  3. C.
    325
  4. D.
    619
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Correcti2

Subtracted 35 rather than multipliedi3

Multiplied 23 by 35 and then kept the 3 in fronti4

Divided 323 by 35

This is a multiple choice question that allows you to select several options.

Which two equations are correct?

Select the two correct answers.

  1. A.
    15÷4=45
  2. B.
    16÷2=13
  3. C.
    18÷3=124
  4. D.
    110÷4=52
  5. E.
    116÷2=132
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Correcti5

Correcti1

Calculated quotient as 1a÷b=ba i2

Calculated quotient as 1a÷b=ba i4

Calculated quotient as 1a÷b=ab

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A student started a project using a pencil with a length of 7 and one half inches.

After the student completed the project, the pencil had a length of 5 and 7 eighths inches.

How much shorter, in inches, was the pencil after the student completed the project than when the student started the project?

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This is a multiple choice question that allows you to select only one option.

There are 18 students in Ms. Avila’s reading class. Ms. Avila will assign an equal number of pages for each student to read aloud from a book that contains a total of 45 pages.

What is the total number of pages that each student will read aloud?

Select one answer.

  1. A.
    25
  2. B.
    212
  3. C.
    27
  4. D.
    63
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Divided 18 by 45i3

Subtracted instead of dividingi4

Added instead of dividing

This is a multiple choice question that allows you to select only one option.

1212−4710=?

Select one answer.

  1. A.
    768
  2. B.
    7810
  3. C.
    868
  4. D.
    8810

This is a question with 2 parts, including a fill in the blank question that allows you to enter only numbers.

A package contains 13 pound of deli meat. The meat will be divided evenly among 4 sandwiches.

How much deli meat, in pounds, will be in each sandwich?

Enter your answer as a fraction in the spaces provided.

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This is a multiple choice question that allows you to select only one option.

The given model can be used to show the solution to a word problem. The shaded counters in the model represent the solution to the word problem.

The figure shows a model that is labeled, 16. The model is divided into four equal counters. Three counters are shaded, and one counter is unshaded.

Which word problem can be modeled by the given model?

  1. A.
    Mike had 12 pennies. He gave Jada 34 of the pennies he had. How many pennies did Mike give Jada?
  2. B.
    Each of 16 students in a class drank 43 cup of water. How many cups of water did the students drink in all?
  3. C.
    A group of 16 students went to lunch. Of these students, 34 of them bought milk. How many students bought milk?
  4. D.
    Mike read 12 pages of a book. Jada read 43 times the number of pages Mike read. How many pages did Jada read?
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Models 12×34 i2

Models 16×43 i4

Models 12×43

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What is the value of 7 divided by 1 fifth?

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