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Name Date

10–1
Homework Practice 3MG2.1
Polygons

Chapter Resources
Classify each polygon.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Solve.

7. Eve is setting the dinner table with 8. Carlos drew a shape that had three
placemats and napkins. What are straight sides and one rounded
some of the polygons she may be side. He said his shape is not a
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seeing on her table? polygon. Is he correct? Explain.

Convert each unit. (Lesson 9–6)

9. 2 L = mL 10. 8 km = m 11. 4,000 g = kg

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Name Date
10–1
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG2.1
Polygons

Solve.

1. Each tile on a floor has 5 sides and 2. What is the shape of the stop sign?
5 angles. What shape is each of
the tiles?

STOP

3. Peter made a hexagon using 4. Is a circle a polygon? Why or why


6 toothpicks. He now wants not?
to change the hexagon into
an octagon. How many more
toothpicks does he need?

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5. James says the figure below is 6. Lana drew a design using the same
a polygon. Karen says the figure number of hexagons and octagons.
below is a quadrilateral. Who is The design has a total of 42 sides.
correct? Explain. How many hexagons are in the
design?

hexagons

Grade 3 150 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–2
Homework Practice 3MG1.3
Perimeter

Chapter Resources
Find the perimeter of each figure.
3 cm 3 cm 17 ft
1. 2. 3.
3 cm 3 cm
4 in. 4 in.
12 ft 12 ft
3 cm 3 cm
4 in. 17 ft
3 cm 3 cm

3m 2m
5 in.
4. 5. 3m 3m 6.
2 in. 2 in. 2m 2m
3m 3m
7 in. 3m 2m

Using the grids, create


a shape with the following
perimeters.
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7. 5 + 4 + 5 + 4 8. 6 + 2 + 2 + 6 9. 2 + 9 + 2 + 9

Solve. (Lesson 10–1)

10.

Which figure doesn’t fit? Tell why.

11. Is the sun a plane figure? Explain your answer.

12. How many sides does an octagon have?


Grade 3 151 Chapter 10
Name Date
10–2
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG1.3
Perimeter

Solve.

9 ft 12 ft

Dining
12 ft Living Room 10 ft
Room

1. Jean will put a paper border 2. How much border paper is needed
around the 4 walls in the living to go around the walls of the
room. How many feet of border dining room?
paper will she use?
ft ft
3. A rose garden is hexagonal in 4. Each of two bulletin boards is a 6 ft
shape. Two of the sides are 14 feet by 8 ft rectangle. How much border

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and the remaining four sides are paper is needed to go around both
16 feet each. How much fencing is boards?
needed to completely enclose the
garden?
ft ft
5. The perimeter of a small room is 6. Zoe will sew lace around a
34 feet. If the room is rectangular rectangular tablecloth. The
in shape and it is 7 feet wide, how tablecloth is 5 feet long and 4 feet
long is the room? wide. If lace costs $2 per foot, how
much will Zoe pay for the lace
she needs?

ft

Grade 3 152 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–3
Homework Practice 3MG1.2
Area

Chapter Resources
Find the area of each shaded figure.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Draw each figure described. Then find the area.


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7. Sean and Jim were pouring some new concrete. They needed
to fill a square that was 2 units by 2 units. What was the area
of concrete poured?
8. Alfonso’s swimming pool is 9 units by 8 units. What is the
area of the pool?

Find the perimeter of each figure. (Lesson 10–2)

9. 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 10. 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 =
3 cm 2 cm 2 cm
4 cm 2 cm 2 cm
5 cm
2 cm 2 cm
6 cm 2 cm

Grade 3 153 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–3
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG1.2
Area

Shaded part = area of floor covered by a rug

Use the model above to solve.

1. What is the area of the rug in 2. What is the area of the whole floor,
square units? including the rug covered area?
square units square units

3. What is the area of the floor that is 4. If the rug were 5 units long and

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not covered by a rug? 4 units wide, how much greater
would its area be than the one
shown in the model?
square units greater

5. Shawna wants to buy the rug 6. Kaitlin wants to buy a rug that is
shown above. The rug costs $2 a 5 units long and 3 units wide.
square unit. Use repeated addition Draw a model of the rug to
to find the price of the rug above. find the area.
square units

Grade 3 154 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–4
Homework Practice 3MR1.2, 3MG1.3
Problem-Solving Strategy

Chapter Resources
Solve. Use the solve a simpler problem strategy.

1. Tommy, Katy and Lily were eating 2. Pat and Rich drove to the beach
grapes. Tommy ate twice as many last weekend. It took them twice as
grapes as Katy, and Lily ate half as long to get back as it did to drive
many grapes as Katy. If Katy ate 6 there. If they spent 9 hours traveling
grapes, how many grapes did the to and from the beach, how long
three of them eat in all? did it take them to drive each way?

3. Rosa was very proud of her floral 4. Carol was collecting quarters from
arrangement. It contained 8 black- different states. She had 5 quarters
eyed susans, 12 tulips, 15 daisies, from California, 8 from Texas, and
and the rest were roses. If her twice as many from Florida as from
arrangement had 48 flowers, how California and Texas combined. If
many were roses? Carol had 39 quarters, how many
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were from Florida?

5. Amy bought valentines for her


class. They were sold in boxes of 8. 6. Sean’s baby brother sleeps about
Amy has 24 students in her class. 13 hours a day. If he takes
How many boxes of valentines will 2 two-hour naps, how long does
she need to purchase? he sleep at night?

Find the area of each figure. (Lesson 10–3)


7. 8.

square units square units


Grade 3 155 Chapter 10
Name Date
10–5
Homework Practice 3MG2.2, 3MG2.4
Triangles and Angles

Chapter Resources
Answer the following true or false.

1. An isosceles triangle has two equal sides.


2. An equilateral triangle only has two sides that are equal.

3. A scalene triangle cannot contain a right angle.


4. A right triangle cannot be an equilateral triangle.
5. An isosceles triangle can be a right triangle.
6. A scalene triangle has no equal sides.

On the grids below, draw the following triangles.

7. an equilateral triangle 8. an isosceles triangle


9. a right triangle 10. a scalene triangle

7. 8. 9. 10.
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Solve. Use the solve a simpler problem strategy. (Lesson 10–4)

11. Colleen ate apples 5 times a week. How many apples did she
eat in 3 weeks?

12. Alicia scored three times as many points as Wade. If Wade


scored 9 points, how many points did both children score in
the game?

Grade 3 157 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–5
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG2.2, 3MG2.4
Triangles and Angles

Solve.

1. Elaine drew a triangle with only 2. The sides of a window shaped like
two of the sides the same length. a triangle are each different. What
What kind of triangle did she draw? kind of triangle is the window
shaped like?

3. An equilateral triangle has 2 sides 4. Billy has a pattern block of a right


that are each 4 inches long. What triangle and Laura has one of
is the length of the third side? How a scalene triangle. Tell how the
do you know? pattern blocks are alike.

Tell how they are different.

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5. The flower bed in the park by 6. Ron is drawing a triangle. One side
Amy’s house is in the shape of an is 3 inches long. One side is
equilateral triangle. One side of 6 inches long. His triangle is not
the triangular flower bed is 40 feet an isosceles triangle or a right
long. Amy walked around all three triangle. What kind of triangle did
sides of the triangle. How far did Ron draw?
she walk?

How do you know?

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Name Date
10–6
Homework Practice 3MG2.3, 3MG2.4
Quadrilaterals

Chapter Resources
Answer the following true (T ) and false (F ) questions.

1. A rectangle is a quadrilateral.
2. Some quadrilaterals have parallel sides.
3. A parallelogram has two pairs of parallel sides.
4. A square is a rectangle.
5. A square must have four right angles.
6. A parallelogram has right angles.

On the grids below, draw the following quadrilaterals.


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7. a rectangle 8. a parallelogram 9. a square

Draw each type of triangle. (Lesson 10–5)

10. 11. 12. 13.

10. Draw an isosceles triangle. 11. Draw a scalene triangle.


12. Draw a right triangle. 13. Draw an equilateral triangle.

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Name Date
10–6
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG2.3, 3MG2.4
Quadrilaterals

Solve.

1. Rhonda makes two different 2. The pattern blocks in a box are


quadrilaterals with toothpicks. quadrilaterals except for one. What
Both have sides of the same length. shape could the block that is not a
Name one of the quadrilaterals quadrilateral be?
she could have made?

3. Three picture frames are on a 4. Collin says that all quadrilaterals


dresser. Two are shaped like are polygons, but not all polygons
squares and the other is shaped are quadrilaterals. Is he correct?
like a parallelogram. How many Explain.
sides are there in all in the frames?
sides

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5. Three students were asked to 6. Are both of the shapes shown
draw a parallelogram. Each drew below parallelograms? Explain.
a different shape, but each was
correct. Explain how that can be.

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Name Date
10–7
Homework Practice 3MG1.2, 3MR1.1
Problem-Solving Investigation

Chapter Resources
Use any strategy to solve. 4. Matt and Cecelia are going to
Washington, D.C. on vacation
1. Irene had 15 thank you notes to and want to visit the Capitol, the
write for her birthday gifts. She Washington Monument, and the
writes 3 thank you notes a night. National Zoo in one day. They only
How many nights will it take her to have 8 hours and want to spend
finish her notes? twice as much time at the Zoo as
the other monuments. How much
time can they spend at the Capitol
and the Washington Monument?
2. Elena and Ricky bought fruit. For
every 2 apples she bought, he
would buy 3 kiwi. If Elena bought
6 apples, how many kiwi did
Ricky buy?
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3. Catalina was selling fruit in her


neighborhood. She visited 6 houses
on her block, and 7 houses on the
next block. By the time she was
finished, she had visited 19 houses
in all. How many houses must she
have visited on the third block?

Identify each quadrilateral. (Lesson 10–6)

5. 6. 7.

Grade 3 161 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–8
Homework Practice 3MG2.5
Solid Figures

Chapter Resources
Identify each solid figure.
1. 2. 3.

4. Luisa was trying to describe the item used to hold her


morning orange juice. What solid figure would you consider
a juice glass to be?

5. Ella was exercising with a large round object. What solid


figure would you consider this yoga ball to be?
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Use any strategy shown below to solve. (Lesson 10–7)

• Choose an operation • Guess and check


• Draw a picture • Solve a simpler problem

6. Cesar was hanging a garland 7. Sigrid wrote two numbers. The


around the room. The garland was sum of the numbers is 8. The
40 feet long. He needed to tack it product of the numbers is 15.
up in five feet sections. How many What are the two numbers?
sections of garland are there?

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Name Date
10–8
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG2.5
Solid Figures

Solve. Use the art for questions 1–2.

orange juice
e
ad

frozen
on
lem

1. Penny had a drink in a container 2. What is the shape of the orange


shaped like a rectangular prism. juice container?
What did Penny drink?

3. Lorena was searching for the 4. Ricky traced around the bottom of
perfect pine tree. If the tree were a box shaped like a pyramid. What

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perfect, it might be in this solid shape did Ricky draw?
shape. What would it be?

5. Which of these pencil parts is 6. Hector kept his toys neatly stored
shaped like a cylinder? A cone? in his toy chest. What solid figure
would you consider his toy chest
eraser shaft point
to be?

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Name Date
10–9
Homework Practice 3MG2.6
Complex Solid Figures

Chapter Resources
Identify the figures that make each complex solid.
1. 2.

3. 4.

Solve.
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5. Lucy was helping her parents construct a concrete birdbath


in her backyard. They had a cone shape and a flattened
cylinder. How do you think they put this birdbath together?

Identify each solid figure. (Lesson 10–8)

6. 7. 8.

Grade 3 165 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–9
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG2.6
Complex Solid Figures

Solve.

1. Paul had a number of tall, thin cylinders and cones. He


needed to construct a fence around his pet’s play area. Draw
the structure you think Paul created.

2. Alma was excited to be creating the furniture for her new


bedroom. Alma had two rectangular prisms, two cubes, and
five flattened cylinders to use for her design. Draw what you
think her new room may have looked like.

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3. Lina and Jose were very busy building a sand castle at
the beach last week. They used 15 cones, 8 cylinders,
5 rectangular prisms, a pyramid, and 10 cubes in their
design. It won a prize! Recreate the castle that won a prize
at the beach last week.

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Name Date
10–10
Homework Practice 3MG1.2
Measurement: Volume

Chapter Resources
Find the volume of each solid figure.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.
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Identify the figures that make this complex solid. (Lesson 10–9)

7. Name the solid figures in the complex figure above.

8. Carmen and Luisa were carefully looking at a ferris wheel.


What solid figures do you think they could find in that ferris
wheel?

Grade 3 167 Chapter 10


Name Date
10–10
Problem-Solving Practice 3MG1.2
Measurement: Volume

Solve.

w
l

1. How many cubic units long (l ) is 2. What is the volume of the box in
the box? cubic units cubic units?
How many cubic units wide (w)?
cubic units cubic units
How many cubic units high (h)?

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cubic units

3. Miko’s jewelry box is 4 units long, 4. Haki built a box out of 24 cubic
5 units wide, and 6 units high. units. What could the dimensions
What is its volume? of the box be?

cubic units

5. A ring box is 3 inches long, 6. Each block is 1 cubic inch in


2 inches wide, and 1 inch high. volume. How many blocks could
What is the volume of 2 of these you fit into a box that is 4 in. long,
boxes? 4 in. wide, and 4 in. high?
cubic inches about blocks

Grade 3 168 Chapter 10


Name Date
11–1
Homework Practice 3SDAP1.3, 3MR2.3
Bar Graphs

Chapter Resources
1. Display the data in a vertical For exercises 2–4, refer to the graph.
bar graph. Students Who Attended Travel Day
What Pets Do You Have? Spain

Country
Number of Ghana
Kind of Pet Tally
Responses China
Cat 8 New
Zealand
Dog 6
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Horse 2 Number of Students
Bird 5
Fish 3
2. How many students attended the
Ghana Travel Day?

3. How many more students attended


the New Zealand Travel Day than
the Spain Travel Day?
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4. How many students attended


Travel Day?

Find the volume. (Lesson 10–10)

5. 6. 7.

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Name Date
11–1
Problem-Solving Practice 3SDAP1.3, 3MR2.3
Bar Graphs

For Exercises 1–6, refer to the graph.

24

Number of Free
Throws Made
20
16
12
8
4
0
3 4 5 6
Grade

1. How many free throws did Grade 3 2. Which grade shown in the graph
make on Field Day? made the most free throws?

free throws Grade

3. How many free throws did How can you tell?


Grade 4 make?

free throws

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How can you tell? 4. What numbers does the scale
show?

How would the bar graph change


5. How would you change the bar if you changed the scale to show
graph to show that Grade 2 made every two numbers?
6 free throws?

6. How many free throws were made


altogether by Grades 3 through 6?

free throws

Grade 3 170 Chapter 11


Name Date
11–2
Homework Practice 3SDAP1.3
Line Plots

Chapter Resources
Display the set of data in a line plot.

1. Blue Jays Seen at Bird Feeder

Number of Number of
Tally
Blue Jays Responses
4 1

5 3

6 2

8 3

For Exercises 2–4, refer to the line plot that shows the
number of states students have visited.
2. How many states have most How Many States
Have You Visited?
students visited?

3. How many students have visited


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three states?

4. How many students participated in


this survey?
1 2 3 4 5

(Lesson 11–1)
5. Take the line plot used for
Exercises 2–4 and display it in
a horizontal bar graph.
6. Why might we use a vertical bar
graph rather than a horizontal bar
graph to display information?

Grade 3 171 Chapter 11


Name Date
11–2
Problem-Solving Practice 3SDAP1.3
Line Plots

For Exercise 1, use the data.


1. Nine people were surveyed about Number of Chores
how many chores they have. Make
a line plot of the data. 2 4 3
5 3 4
3 5 4

For Exercises 2–4, use the line plot that shows the number
of pets owned by students.

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How Many Pets Do You Have?
2. What number of pets is owned by
the least number of students?

3. What number of pets is owned by


the most number of students?
1 2 3 4 5

4. How many students were


surveyed?

Grade 3 172 Chapter 11


Name Date
11–3
Homework Practice 3SDAP1.2
Problem-Solving Strategy

Chapter Resources
Solve. Use the make a list strategy.

1. Prima’s Pizzeria offers two types of 2. Cristina has one yellow, one
crust: thin or thick. They also offer purple, and one pink tulip bulb to
five toppings: pepperoni, sausage, plant. How many different ways
onions, mushrooms, green can she arrange the tulip bulbs in
peppers. If you chose one type of a row?
crust and two different toppings
on each pizza, how many different
pizzas can you make? 4. At the end of the year, the
class had a cookout. They had
hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and
3. Francisco needs to do quite a hot dogs. For dessert they had ice
few errands. He needs to stop by cream or cake. They served water
the cleaners, the post office, the or lemonade. How many different
hardware store, and the bank. meals were possible choosing
There are a number of ways he can a main dish, a dessert, and a
tackle his list of stops. How many beverage?
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ways can he accomplish his tasks?

Number of Loons Seen

Week Tally
Display the set of data in a line
plot. (Lesson 11–2) 1

2
5. In which week were the most 3
loons seen?
4

6. How many loons were seen during


all 4 weeks?

Grade 3 173 Chapter 11


Name Date
11–4
Homework Practice 3SDAP1.1
Identify Probability

Chapter Resources
Describe the probability of landing on each number. Write
certain, likely, unlikely, or impossible. 1 2
3 1
1. 2 2. 5
1 4
3. 1 4. 1 or 4

5. an even number 6. an odd number

Solve.

7. Is it certain or likely that a regular coin will land heads if


flipped once?

8. Is it unlikely or impossible to roll a 10 on a number cube that


has the numbers 0–5 on it?
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Solve. (Lesson 11–3)


9. There are two girls and a boy in a 10. Pablo can choose ham, turkey,
row of seats on a bus. How many tomato, or cheese on his sandwich.
different ways can they sit in that If he chooses two toppings, how
row? many different sandwiches can
he make?

11. List all of the three-digit numbers


that can be made using 1, 3, and 7. 12. Carla has red beads, white beads,
blue beads, and gold beads. If
she uses one bead of each color,
how many different ways can she
arrange the beads in a row?

Grade 3 175 Chapter 11


Name Date
11–4
Problem-Solving Practice 3SDAP1.1
Identify Probability

Solve. Use the words certain, likely, unlikely, or impossible.

A number cube has 6 sides numbered 1 through 6.

1. Describe the probability of tossing 2. Describe the probability of tossing


a 7 if you toss the number cube. a 6 if you toss the number cube.

A bag has 6 green grapes and 8 red grapes.

3. Keisha is going to pick one item 4. How likely is it that she will pick a
from the bag. How likely is it that red grape?
she will pick a grape?

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A spinner is divided into 10 equal sections numbered
1 through 10.
5. If Clea spins the spinner, how likely 6. How likely is it that she will land
is it that she will land on a number on either an odd or even number?
less than 3?

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Name Date
11–5
Homework Practice 3MR1.1, 3NS2.1
Problem-Solving Investigation

Chapter Resources
Use any strategy shown below to solve. Tell what strategy
you used.
• Make a model • Guess and check
• Make a table • Work a simpler problem
• Work backward • Make a list

1. There are 5 small bags of banana 2. The baby’s quilt is 2 feet wide by
chips, 8 small bags of pretzels, and 3 feet long. Mark’s mom offered to
twice as many packets of nuts as make one twice as wide and twice
pretzels. How many bags of snacks as long. What will the perimeter of
are there? the new quilt be?

3. The combined age of Irene’s pets 4. Marta has 2 dimes, 4 nickels, a


is 23 years. The cat is 5 years older quarter, and 10 pennies. Does she
than the dog. If the dog isn’t 10 have enough to buy an apple that
yet, how old could the cat be? costs 75 cents?
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5. Tara gets to her hotel at 6. If you add 54 to a number, subtract


11:15 A.M. She was traveling for 29, and the result is 30, what was
1 hour 45 minutes. At what time your original number?
did Tara start traveling?

Describe the probability. Write certain, likely, unlikely,


Sunday
or impossible. (Lesson 11–4) Monday

7. You will land on a weekday Saturday


Tuesday

8. You will land on a weekend day Friday Wednesday

9. You will land on a month of the year Thursday

10. You will land on a day that is either a


weekday or weekend day
Grade 3 177 Chapter 11
Name Date
11–6
Homework Practice 3MR3.3, 3SDAP1.4
Make Predictions

Chapter Resources
The tally chart shows the results of spinning the spinner 50 times.

1. Make a prediction for the next


2 4
number.
8 6
6 8
4 2
2. If you were to spin another
10 times, do you think the Outcome Tally Number
outcomes would be more even? 2 15
Explain your answer.
4 10

6 12

3. There are 25 fruit candies in the 8 13


bag: 8 orange, 10 lemon, and
7 strawberry. What flavor would 4. If there were 13 orange, 13
you be most likely to pick? Explain. strawberry, and 10 lemon fruit
candies left in the bag, which
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would you have a better chance of


picking:
orange, strawberry, or lemon?
Explain.

(Lesson 11–5)

Use any strategy to solve. 6. Mr. Bolton was building a fence.


He bought 20 lengths of fencing
5. Jose had 25 cents in his pocket. that were each 8 feet long. The
What were all of the possible coin perimeter of the fence was
combinations he could have had? 145 feet. How much fencing did
he have left over?

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Name Date
11–6
Problem-Solving Practice 3MR3.3, 3SDAP1.4
Make Predictions

Place a red crayon, a yellow crayon, and a green crayon in a


brown lunch bag. Pick a crayon 25 times and keep a tally
in the table below. Then answer the questions.

Crayons in a Bag
Outcome Tally Total
red
yellow
green

1. What color did you pick the most frequently?


2. What color would you probably pick next?
3. What do you think your results would look like if you picked
crayons twice as many times?

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Repeat the experiment above, but pick 50 times. Add your
data to the chart above and compare your results.

4. What do you think will happen if you add another color


crayon?

Add one more color and pick another 25 times. Record the
color and your data to the chart below.

Crayons in a Bag
Outcome Tally Total
red
yellow
green

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Name Date
12–1
Homework Practice 3NS3.1
Parts of a Whole

Chapter Resources
Draw a picture for each fraction. Shade the fraction.

1. two-sixths 2. one-seventh

3. five-eighths 4. _
1
5
5. _ 6. _
2 1
4 3

What fraction is shaded?

7. 8.

9. 10.

The tally chart shows the results of picking a name out of a


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hat 25 times and then replacing it each time.

Pick a Name
Outcome Tally Total
Ali 9
Kate 7
Devin 5
Aisha 4
11. What name is most likely to be pulled next? Why?

12. What two names are equally likely to be picked? Explain.

Grade 3 181 Chapter 12


Name Date
12–1
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.1
Parts of a Whole

Solve.

1. One half of the wall is blue and 2. A muffin is cut up into 3 equal
one half is yellow. What fraction parts. One of the parts has been
shows the part of the wall that is eaten. What fraction of the muffin
blue? has been eaten?

3. Betty baked a meatloaf. She cut it 4. Tom baked an apple pie and cut
into 5 equal slices. The family ate it into equal pieces. Tom ate one
1
3 of the slices. What fraction of the piece, which was __6
of the pie. How
meatloaf did they eat? many pieces did he cut the pie
into?

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5. Tony’s Pizzeria cuts their 8-inch 6. A loaf of bread is cut into 8 equal
pizzas into 4 equal slices. Martelli’s slices. How much of the bread is
Pizzeria cuts their 8-inch pizzas into left after 6 slices have been used
6 equal slices. Andre had a slice for sandwiches?
of pizza at both pizzerias. At which
pizzeria did Andre eat more pizza?
Explain.

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Name Date
12–2
Homework Practice 3MR1.1, 3NS3.1
Problem Solving Investigation

Chapter Resources
Use any strategy shown below to solve.

• Look for a pattern • Draw a picture


• Make a table • Guess and check
• Work backward

1. Marisela walks to and from school each day. It takes her


13 minutes to walk to school. How much time does Marisela
spend walking to and from school each week?

2. There are two numbers whose sum is 9 and the difference is


five. What are the two numbers?

3. Paul has 4 red crayons, 2 blue crayons, and 15 green crayons


in a bag. Which crayon color is he likely to pick?
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4. A round trip ticket to Dallas costs $325. A one-way ticket


costs $89. How much money can be saved by buying two
one-way tickets instead of 1 round trip ticket?

Draw a picture for each fraction. Shade the fraction. (Lesson 12–1)
5. _ 6. _
3 1
4 3
7. _ 8. _
2 4
3 7
9. _ 10. _
3 7
5 8
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Name Date
12–3
Homework Practice 3NS3.1
Find Equivalent Fractions

Chapter Resources
Draw an equivalent fraction for the following fractions.

1. _
3
2. _
2
3. _
3
6 8 9
4. _ 5. _ 6. _
2 5 6
4 10 8

Write another fraction that names each fraction.

7. two-sixths 8. eight-tenths

9. four-eighths 10. six-ninths

Solve.

11. Fred offered three-fourths of the pizza or nine-twelfths of the


pizza. Did he offer equal portions?
12. Alfonso needed help mowing the lawn. Danny offered to
mow one-fourth and Hector offered to mow one-sixth. Who
offered to mow _ of the lawn?
2
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Use any strategy to solve. (Lesson 12–2)

13. Gregoria needs to be to school by 14. There are two numbers whose sum
8:15. It takes her 20 minutes to is 10 and the difference is 2. What
walk and about 30 minutes to get is the number?
ready in the morning. What time
16. Ramon has four brothers; two
should Gregoria wake up each
older and two younger. They are
morning?
each two years apart. If Ramon is
15. Augusto’s school supplies totaled nine, how old is his oldest brother?
$11.82. He gave the clerk three
five-dollar bills. How much change
did he receive?

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Name Date
12–3
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.1
Find Equivalent Fractions

Solve.
1 2
1. Lenny colored __2
of his picture. 2. A painter has painted __
8
of a ceiling.
What is another fraction that tells What is an equivalent fraction for
the part of the picture he colored? this?

3. Phillip has a box that is divided 4. A granola bar is cut into 3 equal
into 4 equal sections. He fills 2 of parts. Grace eats one part. Write
the sections with sand. Write two two equivalent fractions that tell
equivalent fractions that tell how how much of the bar she ate.
much of the box is filled.

5. A circular tablecloth has 8 equal 6. A spinner is divided into 6


sections. Two sections are white, equal sections. The sections are
two are red, two are blue, and numbered in order from 1 through

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two are black. What part of the 6. What part of the spinner has
tablecloth is not white? even numbers on it?

What is another fraction you can What is another fraction you can
use to name this part? use to name this part?

7. Dennis finished half of his 8. Olivia drank half a cup of milk. Her
5
homework. Christine finished brother drank ___
10
of a cup of milk
one third of her homework. Have Did they drink the same amount ?
they completed the same amount
of work ?

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Name Date
12–4
Homework Practice 3MR2.3, 3NS2.1
Problem Solving Investigation

Chapter Resources
Solve. Use the draw a picture strategy.

1. Lorena opened up her top drawer. 2. Rafael was sorting his two dozen
She had twelve pairs of socks model cars. He had 8 red cars,
in the drawer. Three pairs were 5 green vans, 6 pickup trucks, and
patterened, six were colored, and the rest were one of a kind cars.
the rest were white. How many How many one of a kind cars did
pairs of socks were white? Rafael have?

3. Five cats are sitting on the fence. 4. Dora took a dozen crackers out
The black cat is second. The orange of the oven. Kenny ate three and
cat is next to the grey cat, and the Macros ate five. How many are
striped cat is on the end. If the grey left?
cat is fourth, where is the white cat?

6. Watson is 3 miles directly south of


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5. There are six pairs of shoes in Panera. Caribou is 2 miles directly


the closet. There is one pair of west of Watson. Wells is 3 miles
sneakers, two pairs of flip flops, directly north of Panera. Is that
and one pair of dress shoes. The possible? Explain.
rest do not fit. How many pairs of
shoes do not fit?

Complete each number sentence to find equivalent


fractions. (Lesson 12-3)

7. _
3
=_ 8. _
1
=_ 9. _
2
=_
4 12 8 16 5 10

10. _
5
=_ 11. _=_ 12. _=_
2
7 21 4 6 32 16
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Name Date
12–5
Homework Practice 3NS3.1
Compare Fractions

Chapter Resources
Compare. Write >, <, or =. Use fraction strips, a number
line, or a drawing if needed.

1. _
1 _
3
2. _
3 _
2
3. _
1 _
2
2 4 5 5 6 6
4. _
1 _
1
5. _
2 _
1
6. _
3 _
1
4 8 6 4 8 4
7. _
2 _
7
8. _
2 _
2
9. _
2 _
3
5 8 8 3 3 8
10. _
1 _
2
11. _
3 _
2
12. _
3 _
5
3 6 7 5 4 8
13. _
1 _
1
14. _
1 _
2
2 3 4 8

Solve.
3 2
15. Callie ate __
4
of a cup of dog food 16. Alonso finished __
3
of his homework
7 5
and Spirit ate __
8
of a cup of cat before dinner and Ana finished __
6
.
food. Who ate more? Who has less homework to finish
after dinner?
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Solve. Use the draw a picture strategy. (Lesson 12–4)

17. Carolina walked west one block, 18. Six lunch boxes sat on the ledge.
south one block, east one block, Half were plain, and the rest had
and south one block. Did she make cartoon characters on them. How
a complete square? many were plain?
19. There were twelve flowers in the 20. There were 15 houses on the
vase. Three were red, four were block. Eight of them hung the flag
orange, and the rest were yellow. out to fly. Did more than half the
How many yellow flowers were in houses fly the flag?
the vase?

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Name Date
12–5
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.1
Compare Fractions

Solve.

2 3
1. Pete and Sal share a bag of chips. 2. If __
5
of the class are boys and __
5
are
1
Pete eats __
4
of the chips and Sal girls, are there more boys or girls?
3
__
eats 4 of the chips. Who eats
more?

2
3
3. It takes __
4
of an hour for Randy 4. Alice has finished __
3
of her
1
to walk from home to school. It homework. Sam has finished __ 2
1
takes __
2
hour for him to walk from of his homework. Who has more
home to the mall. Does Randy live homework left to do, Alice or Sam?
closer to school or to the mall?

5. In a recipe for fruit salad, Marta 6. Jack and Sandra each have $100
1 3 1
adds __ pound of apples, __ pound in savings. Jack spent __ of his

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2 4 2
1 3
__
of grapes, and 3 pound of cherries. savings on a new coat and __ 8
of the
Which fruit did she use the savings on a new pair of sneakers.
2
most? Sandra spent __5
of her savings on a
new coat. Who spent more money
on a coat?

1
7. Two loaves of bread are the same 8. Which weighs more: __3
lb of lead
1
__
size. One is cut into 8 pieces. The or 2 lb of feathers?
other is cut into 10 pieces. Which
has the largest pieces?

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Name Date
12–6
Homework Practice 3NS3.2
Add Like Fractions

Chapter Resources
Add. Use fraction strips if needed.

1. _
1
+_
5
2. _
1
+_
3
3. _
1
+_
1
7 7 5 5 3 3

4. _
2
+_
1
5. _
1
+_
1
6. _
2
+_
2
4 4 4 4 6 6

7. _
1
+_
1
8. _
3
+_
2
9. _
2
+_
6
8 8 10 10 8 8

10. _
4
+_
3
11. _
3
+_
1
12. _
7
+_
3
9 9 4 4 11 11

Solve.
3 3
13. Dan walked ___
10
of a mile then 14. A recipe calls for __
4
of a cup white
5
___ 1
__
ran 10 of a mile. How far did he sugar and 4 of a cup dark brown
go? sugar. How much sugar will be
used for the recipe?
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15. Manuel has soccer practice 3 days


a week and baseball practice 2
days a week. What fraction of the
week does Manuel have practice?

Compare. Write <, >, = . (Lesson 12-5)

16. _
2 _
1
17. _
3 _
3
18. _
4 _
3
4 3 10 11 9 10

19. _
3 _
3
20. _
1 _
3
21. _
1 _
1
5 4 4 9 8 7

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Name Date
12–6
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.2
Add Like Fractions

Solve. Use fraction models if needed.


1 1
1. Kitty the cat ate __
6
of her food 2. A plant grew __
5
of an inch during
2 3
in the morning and __ 6
in the the first week and __
5
of an inch
afternoon. How much of her the next week. How much did the
food did Kitty eat so far? plant grow in the two weeks?

4
3. A model car storage box is divided 4. Of the dozen eggs in a box, ___
12
3
into 8 equal sections. __8
of the have been colored pink and
3
___
sections have model sports cars 12
have been colored blue.
2
and __
8
have model trucks. The rest The other eggs have not been
of the box is empty. What fraction colored. What fraction of the
of the box is filled so far? eggs have been colored?

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1
5. Ricky paints __
8
of his room on 6. There are 12 apples in a bag.
3 2
Monday, 8 on Tuesday, and __
__
8
on 1
Everett eats __
6
of them and Lilly
Wednesday. What fraction of his 2
__
eats 6 of them. What fraction of the
room did Ricky paint by the end of apples have been eaten so far?
the day on Wednesday?

How many apples are left in the


bag?

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Name Date
12–7
Homework Practice 3NS3.2
Subtract Like Fractions

Chapter Resources
Subtract. Use fraction strips if needed.

1. _
3
-_=
2
2. _
4
-_=
1
3. _
4
-_=
3
4 4 6 6 5 5

4. _
6
-_=
5
5. 1 - _
1
= 6. _
6
-_=
4
7 7 2 6 6

7. _
8
-_=
4
8. _
7
-_=
5
9. _
8
-_=
4
9 9 8 8 11 11

10. _
9
-_=
4
11. 1 - _
1
= 12. _
2
-_=
1
10 10 4 3 3

Solve.
5
13. The bathtub is filled up __ 6
of the way. After Tom gives the dog
3
__
a bath, it is filled 6 of the way. How much water did the dog
splash out of the tub?
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2
14. There were a dozen ice pops in the box. Juan ate ___
12
of the
box. How much was left?

3 2
15. The gallon of milk was __
4
full. Rosa drank __
4
of the gallon. How
much was left?

Add. Use fraction models if needed. (Lesson 12-6)

16. _
3
+_
3
= 17. _
4
+_=
5
12 12 10 10
18. _ + _ 19. _ + _
2 5 1 1
= =
8 8 2 2
20. _ + _ 21. _ + _
5 1 1 2
= =
7 7 3 3
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Name Date
12–7
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.2
Subtract Like Fractions

Solve.
3 7
1. Lorrie found __
4
of an apple pie in 2. There is __
8
of a quart of milk in a
2 2
the refrigerator. She ate __
4
of the bottle. Brianne pours __8
of a quart
pie. What fraction of the pie was of milk into a glass. How much
left? milk is left in the bottle?

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
4 4 4 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

of the pie

8 5
3. A box of crayons fell on the floor. 4. Alex ran ___
12
of a mile. Rhea ran ___
12
7
If ___
12
of the crayons fell out, what of a mile. How much farther did
fraction of the crayons are still in Alex run than Rhea?
the box?

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of a mile farther
are still in the box

7
5. Ben found ___
10
of a pound of flour in 6. Mea baked a peach pie and an
3 7
the pantry. He needed to use ___
10
of apple pie. At the end of the day, __
8
3
a pound of flour for bread that he of the peach pie was left and __
8
of
was baking. His mom said that she the apple pie was left. How much
3
needed ___
10
of a pound of flour for more peach pie was left than apple
dinner. After Ben and his mom use pie?
the flour, how much will be left in
the bag? of a pie

of a pound

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Name Date
13–1
Homework Practice 3NS3.4
Tenths

Chapter Resources
Write a fraction and a decimal for the part that is shaded.

1. 2.

Write each fraction as a decimal.

3. _
5
4. four tenths
10
5. _
2 3
6. Benny ate ___
10
of his snack.
10
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1
7. Han ate ___
10
of his beans.

Write each decimal as a fraction.

8. 0.6 9. 0.8 10. 0.1

11. Jamil had 0.5 of his sandwich left.

12. Arnie has 0.2 of his drink.

Subtract. Use fraction models if needed. (Lesson 12–7)

13. _
3
-_=
1
14. _
6
-_=
3
5 5 7 7

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Name Date
13–1
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.4
Tenths

Solve.

1. Kosey was one of 10 players on his 2. There are 10 cats in the shelter.
team. If there are 4 girls, write the Three cats are black, 1 is white,
number of girls in decimal form. and 6 are tabbies. How many cats
Write the number of boys on the are tabbies out of the ten? Write
team in a fraction form. your answer in a decimal form.

4. Akira has 6 toy cars. His friend,


Masao has 4 toy cars. What is the
3. You ate 0.8 of your french fries. fraction of toys that Akira had out
How many do you have left? Write of the 10 toys they had altogether?
your answer as a fraction.

6. If you saw 4 red birds and 6


blue birds, what part of the birds

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5. Your pizza has ten pieces
altogether and you ate two pieces. were red? Write your answer as a
How many pieces do you have left? decimal.
Write a fraction.

8. You have 4 pairs of sneakers and


7. Out of her 10 toes, your sister 6 pairs of other shoes, including
painted 0.5 of her toes red and 0.5 2 pairs of dress shoes. How many
of them white. How many were sneakers do you have out of all
red out of the 10? the shoes? Write the number of
sneakers in decimal form and as a
fraction.

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Name Date
13–2
Homework Practice 3NS3.4
Hundredths

Chapter Resources
Write a fraction and a decimal for the part that is shaded.

1. 2. 3.

Write each decimal as a fraction.

4. 0.64 5. 0.17

6. 0.48 7. 0.35
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Write each fraction as a decimal. (Lesson 13–1)

8. _
3
9. _
6
10. _
2
10 10 10
11. _ 12. _
7 4
10 10

Write each decimal as a fraction.

13. 0.1 14. 0.3

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Name Date
13–2
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.4
Hundredths

Solve.
75
1. Omar had a box of 100 pretzels. If 5. Zina has eaten ___
100
of her lunch.
he separated them out for snacks, What part of the lunch does she
and he put 10 in a bag, how many have left?
pretzels did he use if he made
5 bags? Write your answer as a
fraction and a decimal.
6. A zoo has 100 animals. If there
are 40 reptiles, 25 mammals, and
35 birds, how many mammals are
2. Order the numbers from least to there out of the 100? Write your
greatest. answer as a fraction.

0.65 _
4 _
89
0.42
100 100

7. There are 100 toy men in a


package. Your friend places
3. Your puzzle has 100 pieces. You 54 pieces on his side, how many

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have only 47 pieces left, so what pieces do you have?
part have you put together out of
100 in a fraction form?

8. You have planted 94 rows out of


your 100-row garden. How many
4. In your novel, you are on page 34 rows do you have left to plant?
out of 100. What is the decimal
and fraction of the part you have
left to read?

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Name Date
13–3
Homework Practice 3MR2.3, 3NS3.4
Problem-Solving Strategy

Chapter Resources
Solve. Use the act it out strategy.

1. 2. A fisherman caught a total of


10 fish in one day. If he ate 0.3 of
the fish for breakfast and 0.3 of the
fish for lunch, how many fish did
he have for dinner?

A scuba diver saw many animals


on his dive. If you can see 0.5 of 4. Sunee has 10 stuffed animals. She
the animals in the picture, how lent 0.2 of them to one friend.
many more animals did the diver How many of her stuffed animals
see? How many total animals did did she not lend?
he see?

5. Mini collects bugs. She has


3. Mai Lin has saved 7 coins. If she 48 bugs altogether. If she can fit
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needs 10 coins to buy a toy, how 10 bugs in each container, how


many more coins does she need? many containers will she need to
house all of her collection?

Write each fraction as a decimal. (Lesson 13–2)

6. _
6
7. _
25
8. _
97
100 100 100
Write each decimal as a fraction.

9. 0.80 10. 0.01 11. 0.08


12. If you eat 0.6 of the pretzels and you had 10 to start with,
how many are leftover?

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Name Date
13–4
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.4
Decimals and Money

Solve.

1. A store sells a card for 89k. What 5. Tom buys a book that costs ₦4.37
part of a dollar is 89k? and a bookmark that costs ₦0.75.
He gives the cashier a ₦5-bill and a
₦1-bill. What part of a dollar does
he receive in change?

2. Clara has two dimes, a nickel, and


four pennies in her pocket. What
part of a dollar is the money she
6. Sue puts _ of every dollar she
1
has in her pocket?
4
earns in a jar. If she earns $8, how
much money will she save?

3. Joan wants to buy a toy for a


dollar. She has 1 quarter, two
7. Judy spent _ of a dollar on
nickels, and a dime. What part of 6

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10
a dollar does she need to buy the a bottle of juice. She gave the
cashier _ of a dollar? How much
toy? 3
4
money did she receive in change?

4. Mr. Brown bought a hammer for


₦5.75. He gave the cashier ₦6. 8. Carlos spent _ of a dollar on a
1
What part of a dollar did Mr. Brown 15 10
pencil, _ of a dollar on a pen,
receive in change? 1 100
and _ of a dollar on notebook. He
4
gave the cashier ₦1. How much
change did he receive?

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Name Date
13–5
Homework Practice 3MR1.2, 3NS3.3
Problem-Solving Investigation

Chapter Resources
Use any strategy shown below to solve. Tell what strategy you used.

Problem-Solving Strategies
• Guess and Check • Draw a picture
• Work a simpler problem • Act it out
• Make an organized list

1. There are 15 children on the 2. 6 ft


playground at recess. If 3 are on
the swing set and 4 are on the 3 ft 3 ft
monkey bars, how many are left
to play ball?
6 ft

You are having a fence built


3. Danielle has five coins. The total of around your pool. How many feet
her coins is $0.51 cents. If she has of the fence will be needed?
1 penny, 1 nickel, and 1 quarter,
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how many dimes does she have?


4. Louis spent 0.6 of his piggy bank
on a gift. How much of his bank
does he have left?

Write each fraction as a decimal. (Lesson 13–2)

5. _
3
6. _
2
7. _
65
10 10 100

Write each decimal as a fraction.

8. 0.8 9. 0.9 10. 0.49

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Name Date
14–1
Homework Practice 3NS2.4, 3MR2.2
Multiply Multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000

Chapter Resources
Multiply. Use basic facts and patterns.

1. 2 × 3 = 2. 7 × 5 = 3. 5 × 8 =

2 × 30 = 7 × 50 = 5 × 80 =

2 × 300 = 7 × 500 = 5 × 800 =

2 × 3,000 = 7 × 5,000 = 5 × 8,000 =


4. 2 × 7 = 5. 6 × 3 = 6. 7 × 6 =

2 × 70 = 6 × 30 = 7 × 60 =

2 × 700 = 6 × 300 = 7 × 600 =

2 × 7,000 = 6 × 3,000 = 7 × 6,000 =

7. 3 × 80 = 8. 5 × 4,000 =

9. 400 × 8 = 10. 20 × 9 =

11. 5,000 × 6 = 12. 30 × 4 =


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13. 700 × 6 = 14. 7 × 900 =

Solve.
15. There were 4 rows of desks in Cecilia’s classroom and 10 in each row.
How many desks were there?
16. On Valentine’s Day the florist delivered 100 vases of flowers. Each vase held
half of a dozen flowers. (Remember: half of a dozen = 6) How many flowers
were delivered that day?

Write the part of a dollar each amount represents. (Lesson 13–4)

17.50k 18. 25k

19.20k 20. 75k

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Name Date
14–1
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS2.4, 3MR2.2
Multiply Multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000

Solve.

1. Nathan earns ₦30 a week at his 2. The fruit store has 2 crates of
part-time job. How much does he apples left to sell. There are 50
earn in 3 weeks? apples in each crate. How many
apples are left in all?

apples

3. Shelley wants to make 800 copies 4. Some computers send information


of the third-grade class newsletter. at the speed of 200 megabytes
The newsletter is 6 pages long. every second. How many
How many sheets of paper will she megabytes could be sent in
need to make the copies? 8 seconds?

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sheets megabytes

5. Benson School has 3 third-grade 6. A carpenter made 90 new shelves.


classrooms. There are 3 computers The materials for each bookshelf
in each of the classrooms. Each cost ₦9. He sells the shelves for a
computer costs ₦2,000. How much total of ₦1,800. How much profit
did all of the third-grade computers did he make?
cost?

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Name Date
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Homework Practice 3NS2.1, 3MR2.3
Problem-Solving Strategy

Chapter Resources
Solve. Use logical reasoning.
1. There were three horses in four 4. What is the largest three digit
stalls. Lightning was in the first stall number you can write without
and Pinto was in the fourth. Ginger using a 9 in the hundreds place
was next to Lightning. Which stall or ones place, or an 8 in the tens
was empty? place?
5. Five cats were in the backyard.
Oscar belonged to Robin. Gizmo
belonged to Jason. Cosmo and
Burt didn’t belong to Kirsten, and
Speck didn’t belong to Pat. What
2. Ben was hungry for a good snack, are the names of Pat’s two cats?
but wasn’t sure what to choose from
the fruit basket. The bananas, apples, 6. Carmen, Manuel, and Diego argued
pears, and kiwis looked delicious. about who was first in line. Diego
He was walking out the door, so he had been line leader last week,
didn’t want to deal with a peel, and and the teacher said “ladies first.”
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the pears and kiwis weren’t ripe. Who will be first in line?
What did he pick?
7. Marta made three sandwiches;
3. Katie was the oldest of five children. turkey on a roll, ham on white,
She had one younger sister and and tuna on rye. Jen doesn’t like
three younger brothers. Brendan rolls and Ana doesn’t care for deli
was in the middle, Tommy was meats. What is Marta left with for
older than Brendan, and Brendan lunch?
was older than Lily, who was older
than John. Where did John fall in
the family?

Multiply. (Lesson 14–1)

8. 80 × 6 = 9. 6 × 5,000 = 10. 7 × 70 =
11. 400 × 2 = 12. 20 × 2 = 13. 300 × 9 =
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Name Date
14–3
Homework Practice 3NS2.4, 3MR2.1
Estimate Products

Chapter Resources
Estimate. Round to the nearest ten.

1. 72 × 4 = 2. 15 × 6 = 3. 45 × 3 = 4. 82 × 8 =
5. 34 × 6 = 6. 27 × 5 = 7. 66 × 7 = 8. 87 × 3 =
Estimate. Round to the nearest hundred.

9. 370 × 9 = 10. 252 × 5 = 11. 416 × 5 =


12. 509 × 6 = 13. 626 × 3 = 14. 849 × 4 =
15. 639 × 8 = 16. 771 × 9 = 17. 235 × 4 =

Solve.

18. Sonia carved a pumpkin and found 843 seeds inside. If she carved 5 more
pumpkins, about how many seeds should she find?
19. The washer takes about 53 minutes to complete a load of laundry.
If Francisco washes 8 loads of laundry a week, about how long is the
washer running?
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Solve. Use logical reasoning. (Lesson 14–2)

20. Four girls discussed their favorite colors. Olivia likes the color of oranges
and pumpkins. Marisol likes the hues of grass and tree leaves. Patricia likes
shades similar to apples and cherries. Cristina likes the color of the sky when
the sun is shining. What color did each girl like?

21. There were three gifts in three boxes. The toy was not in the metal box. The
homemade pretzels were not in a cardboard box. The stuffed animal was
not in a wooden or cardboard box. What gifts were in each of the boxes?

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Name Date
14–3
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS2.4
Estimate Products

Solve.

1. Each third-grade class has 2. Adam earned 38 points on each of


25 students. There are three 4 quizzes. Does he have more than
classes. About how many 100 total points? Explain.
third-grade students are there
in all? Round the answer to the
nearest ten.

3. Chad has 6 different packages of 4. Dana’s family wants to buy


napkins. Each package has 4 puzzles that cost $17 each. They
44 napkins. About how many have $50 to spend. Do they have
napkins does he have in all? enough money for the 4 puzzles?
Explain.

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5. Habib made 3 sandwiches. Each
sandwich has 478 Calories. About 6. Erica has $5 to buy new pencils.
how many total number of Calories She wants 1 purple pencil, 2 green
are in the three sandwiches? pencils, 1 red pencil, and 5 blue
pencils. Each pencil costs 49¢.
Does she have enough money to
buy all of the pencils she wants?
Explain.

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Name Date
14–4
Homework Practice 3NS2.4
Multiply by a One-Digit Number

Chapter Resources
Multiply.

1. 44 2. 23
×2 ×2

3. 14 4. 23
×2 ×3

5. 11 × 8 = 6. 30 × 3 = 7. 41 × 2 = 8. 21 × 4 =

9. 33 × 2 = 10. 13 × 2 = 11. 20 × 3 = 12. 11 × 7 =

Solve.

13. There is a shelf in the living room 14. Jorge is collecting baseball cards.
that has 4 shelves. There are 12 He has 22 stacks of 4 cards.
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books on each shelf. How many How many cards does he have
books are there on the four altogether?
shelves?
16. Enrique can read a page in 3
15. Susana collected 2 cents at the minutes. How long will it take him
recycling plant for each of her 42 to read 13 pages?
cans. How much money did she
collect altogether?

Estimate. Round to the nearest ten or hundred. (Lesson 14–3)

17. 85 × 6 = 18. 703 × 4 = 19. 315 × 4 =

20. 895 × 3 = 21. 56 × 7 = 22. 49 × 5 =

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14–4 3NS2.4
Problem-Solving Practice
Multiply by a One-Digit Number

Solve.

1. The straight part of Jane’s train 2. Tom owns 3 sets of trains. Each set
track has 2 tracks. Each track is has 12 train cars. How many train
13 inches. How many inches long cars does Tom have in all?
is the straight part of the train track?
train cars
inches

3. The border around a bulletin 4. There are 3 groups of students.


board is 35 inches long. There are Each group has 8 sheets of paper.
3 pieces of border paper left. Each How many sheets of paper are
piece is 11 inches long. Is there there in all?
enough border paper to go around
the bulletin board border? Explain. sheets of paper

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5. Sam can make 11 beaded 6. Each box has 50 of the same
necklaces in an hour. Sue can colored beads. Every bracelet has
make 12 beaded necklaces in 4 blue beads and 3 red beads. If
an hour. In one week Sam made Jackie makes 12 bracelets, how
necklaces for 6 hours and Sue many beads will be left in the box
made them for 3 hours. Who of blue beads?
makes more bracelets in the
blue beads
week? Explain.
How many will be left in the box of
red beads?
red beads

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Name Date
14–5
Homework Practice 3MR1.1, 3NS2.4
Problem-Solving Investigation

Chapter Resources
Solve. Use any strategy shown below.

• Use the four-step plan • Draw a picture


• Solve a simpler problem • Act it out
• Make an organized list • Use logical reasoning

1. It’s Monday night. Irene has to type 2. Ernesto has 8 dimes, 2 nickels and
16 pages between now and Friday 10 pennies. What is the fewest
morning. How many pages will she number of coins he could carry in
need to type each night to meet his pocket that would equal the
her deadline? same amount of money?

3. Four friends were sitting around a 4. Alicia is trying to decide how much
table playing cards. Jude sat across lemonade to make. If two cups
from Pat, and Kurt was to the left equals a pint, and 2 pints equals a
of Jude. Where was Sean? quart, how many cups are in
4 quarts?
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5. Bernice is designing a diamond 6. Mariano was offering Jackie a deal.


pattern for her new patchwork He was offering her five-eighths of
quilt. How many right triangles can a 9-inch pizza for four-ninths of a
she make out of a square of fabric? 9-inch cake. If Jackie accepts, who
is getting more to eat?

Multiply. (Lesson 14-4)

7. 22 × 3 = 8. 44 × 2 =

9. 23 × 2 = 10. 23 × 3 =

11. 12 × 4 = 12. 24 × 2 =

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Name Date
14–6
Homework Practice 3NS2.4, 3MR2.1
Multiply Two-Digit Numbers

Chapter Resources
Multiply.

1. 24 × 6 = 2. 15 × 4 = 3. 56 × 2 = 4. 19 × 5 =

5. 36 × 3 = 6. 82 × 4 = 7. 61 × 6 = 8. 50 × 5 =

Solve.

9. Elena was reading a book with 10. Laura walked her dog 6 blocks
9 chapters. Each chapter had a day. How many blocks did she
21 pages. How many pages did walk in 21 days?
the book have?
12. There were 7 ice cubes in each
11. There were 9 thirsty players in glass. How many ice cubes were
line. If each received a needed for 18 glasses?
20-ounce serving of lemonade,
how many ounces of lemonade
would be served to the players?
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Choose the best strategy to solve. (Lesson 14-5)

13. If one pair of jeans cost $9, how much would ten pairs of
jeans cost?

14. Five students were in line. Emily was next to Isabel. Isabel
was next to Brittany. Susana was last. Where was Ernesto?

15. Adam wanted to buy 10 newspapers at 8¢ apiece.


How much money did he spend?

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Name Date
14–6
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS2.4, 3MR2.1
Multiply Two-Digit Numbers

Use models to solve.

1. Vin works 16 days each month. 2. Gina earns $15 per hour. How
How many days does he work in much does she earn for 4 hours?
2 months?

days

Solve.
3. Each lesson in a science book has 4. There are 25 white paper clips and
34 pages. There are 8 lessons in 75 silver paper clips in each box.
the book. If Ed reads all of the How many silver paper clips are in
lessons, how many pages will he 9 boxes?
have read?

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pages silver paper clips

5. The school store sells a box of 6. Will has three large boxes of
folders for $48 each. An office candles. There are 53 candles in
supply store has a special sale of each large box. Omar has 7 small
6 boxes of folders for $300. Which boxes of candles. There are
store sells 6 boxes of folders for 24 candles in each small box. Who
less money? Explain. has more candles? Explain.

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Name Date
14–7
Homework Practice 3NS2.4, 3MR2.1
Multiply Greater Numbers

Chapter Resources
Multiply.

1. 152 × 3 = 2. 427 × 4 = 3. 127 × 5 =

4. 1,724 × 3 = 5. 536 × 2 = 6. 214 × 3 =

7. 521 × 4 = 8. 392 × 6 = 9. 2,386 × 6 =

10. 3,074 × 7 = 11. 812 × 8 = 12. 75 × 7 =

Solve.

13. A round-trip plane ticket to Ft. Worth, Texas, is $267. How much would
5 tickets cost?
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14. If there are 128 ounces in a gallon of milk, how many ounces are in
9 gallons?

15. Mrs. Hernadez took her class on a field trip to the zoo. Admission to the zoo
was $5. There were 25 students in the class. How much did it cost for the
class to enter the zoo?

Multiply. (Lesson 4-6)

16. 32 × 5 = 17. 94 × 3 =

18. 57 × 8 = 19. 27 × 6 =

20. 81 × 4 = 21. 23 × 4 =

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Name Date
14–7
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS2.4, 3MR2.1
Multiply Greater Numbers

Solve.

1. Pocket Electronics store has 2 2. Each rack in the electronics store


floors of products. Each floor has has 161 DVDs. There are 3 racks.
115 CD players. How many CD How many DVDs are in the store?
players are in the store?
DVDs
CD players

3. It takes 494 gallons of paint to 4. Seven new classrooms are


paint the outside of the school being added to the Lumberton
building. The building is painted Elementary School. The floor in
every year. How many gallons of each classroom takes 1,276 tiles.
paint are used after 5 years of How many tiles are needed to
painting the building? cover all of the floors of the new
classrooms?
gallons

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tiles

5. You must climb 1,060 steps to 6. Neil is an airline pilot. On each


reach the second floor of the of his first 4 trips, he flew 3,456
Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Andre miles. On his last trip he flew 8,569
walked up and down three times. miles. How many miles did he fly
How many steps did he walk up in all 5 trips?
and down altogether?
miles
steps

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Name Date
14–8
Homework Practice 3NS3.3
Multiply Money

Chapter Resources
Multiply.

1. ₦3.53 × 4 = 2. ₦2.75 × 6 = 3. ₦1.89 × 7 =


4. ₦0.99 × 8 = 5. ₦6.34 × 3 = 6. ₦4.28 × 5 =
7. ₦5.77 × 2 = 8. ₦7.09 × 6 = 9. 8 × ₦4.89 =

Use the table to answer Exercises 10-12.

Burt’s Car Wash 10. If 9 cars go through Burt’s


car wash and have a wash
Wash only ₦5.25
only, how much will it cost?
Wash and Dry ₦5.75
Wash and Wax ₦6.00
12. Antonio has his car washed and
Wash, Wax, Dry ₦6.75
waxed at Burt’s every Saturday.
11. How much will it cost for three How much does it cost him after
cars to have a wash, wax, and dry? 7 weeks?
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14. Elena bought three new pairs


13. Carla ordered 6 orders of fries. of socks for ₦3.89 a pair.
They cost ₦1.29 a piece. How much How much did she spend?
was the total bill?

Multiply. (Lesson 14-7)

15. 214 × 7 = 16. 1,305 × 6 = 17. 284 × 8 =


18. 346 × 4 = 19. 2,197 × 5 = 20. 3,721 × 3 =

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Name Date
14–8
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.3
Multiply Money

Solve.

1. Lee was buying pillows for her outdoor furniture. She bought
eight pillows at ₦19.98 each to place on the outdoor sofa,
and 4 pillows at ₦15.99 each to scatter on the outdoor chairs.
How much money did Lee spend on new pillows?
2. Cathy was eager to add books to her collection. She
became interested in a series that had 6 books in a set.
Each book cost ₦6.99. How much would the set of 6
cost Cathy?
3. Each Saturday, Trevor mows lawns. The lawns are small, so
he has time to mow 7 of them. He charges ₦25 for each
lawn. How much does Trevor earn each Saturday?
4. Armando’s class was selling magazine subscriptions to help
buy new equipment for the science room. Armando sold
10 subscriptions at ₦9.99 apiece. How much did Armando
contribute to the cause?

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5. Ava and her family went to the baseball game. Each ticket
cost ₦8.50. If Ava went with her mother, father, and three
siblings, how much money did they spend on tickets?
6. The scout troop was selling evergreen wreaths for the
holidays. Each wreath cost ₦29.95. If they sold 4 wreaths,
how much money did the troop make?
7. The school’s marching band was getting new uniforms. Each
uniform cost ₦25.75. How much would 10 new uniforms
cost?
8. Antonio was flying back to Boston to visit his grandmother.
His mom and dad were sending him with his sister. If the
tickets were ₦389 round trip, how much would it cost for
them to fly?

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Name Date
15–1
Homework Practice 3NS2.5
Divide Multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000

Chapter Resources
Use basic facts and patterns of zeros to find each quotient.

1. 8 ÷ 2 = 2. 63 ÷ 7 =
80 ÷ 2 = 630 ÷ 7 =
800 ÷ 2 = 6,300 ÷ 7 =
8,000 ÷ 2 = 63,000 ÷ 7 =

3. 27 ÷ 9 = 4. 10 ÷ 5 =
270 ÷ 9 = 100 ÷ 5 =
2,700 ÷ 9 = 1,000 ÷ 5 =
27,000 ÷ 9 = 10,000 ÷ 5 =

Divide.

5. 3,600 ÷ 4 = 6. 700 ÷ 7 = 7. 56,000 ÷ 8 =


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8. The Espinoza triplets want to put 9. A farmer has 24,000 acres of land.
together a puzzle that has 1,500 He wants to divide it evenly among
pieces. If each one puts together 8 different crops. How much land
the same number of pieces, how does each crop get?
many pieces does each triplet have
to put together?

Multiply. (Lesson 14–8)

10. 7 × ₦3.67 11. 9 × ₦9.50

12. ₦2.19 × 4 13. ₦8.25 × 4

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Name Date
15–1
Problem–Solving Practice 3NS2.5
Divide Multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000

Solve.
1. After working for 3 weeks, Pat 2. The office supply store has
earned ₦600. 20 boxes of folders left that are on
sale. There are 800 folders in all.

How much did he earn each week? How many folders are in each box?
each week folders

3. The computer printer has 4. Mr. Wilson will give out


240 sheets of paper in it. Each 120 textbooks to the class. Each
student prints out an 8-page book student will get 6 textbooks. How
report. Now the printer is empty. many students are in the class?
How many students printed out

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their reports? students

students

5. Theo spent a total of ₦560 in 6. It took 2,400 seconds for Megan to


8 weeks. He spent the same finish her science and math
amount each week. He spent homework. Each assignment
₦30 per week on food, and he paid took the same amount of time to
bills with the rest of the money. complete. Was this more or less
How much did he spend each than 1 hour for each assignment?
week on bills? Explain.

each week

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Name Date
15–2
Homework Practice 3NS2.5 3MR2.1
Estimate Quotients

Chapter Resources
Estimate by rounding.

1. 562 ÷ 8 2. 3,638 ÷ 6

3. 454 ÷ 5 4. 2,437 ÷ 3
5. 7,240 ÷ 9 6. 823 ÷ 4

7. 632 ÷ 7 8. 8,456 ÷ 2

9. The Anderson family is taking a cross-country road trip. They


covered 2,420 miles in 8 days. If they wanted their next trip
to be 2 days faster, about how many miles a day would they
have to drive?
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Use basic facts and patterns of zeros to find each quotient.


(Lesson 15–1)

10. 18 ÷ 3 = 11. 16 ÷ 2 = 12. 36 ÷ 4 =


180 ÷ 3 = 160 ÷ 2 = 360 ÷ 4 =
1,800 ÷ 3 = 1,600 ÷ 2 = 3,600 ÷ 4 =

Divide. Use patterns.

13. 8,000 ÷ 4 = 14. 250 ÷ 5 = 15. 45,000 ÷ 9 =

16. Five juice machines can hold 500 cans. How many cans of
juice can each machine hold?

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Name Date
15–2
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS2.5 3MR2.1
Estimate Quotients

Estimate to solve.

1. Amy feeds the 4 class hamsters the 2. In art class, Cory is making paper
same amount of food each day. chains. It takes him 6 minutes to
She has 22 ounces of food. About make each chain. There are about
how many ounces of food does 28 minutes left in class. About how
each hamster get per day? many more chains can he make?
about ounces about more chains

3. Lorrie is emptying her sister’s 4. The third graders have raised $282
wading pool with a pump. The for their class trip to the Wildride
pool holds 142 gallons. Each Amusement Park. Admission to the
minute the pump removes park is $9. There are 30 students
7 gallons of water. About how in the third grade. Do they have
many minutes will it take to empty enough money for admission for
the pool? all of them? Explain your answer.
about minutes

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5. Nina and her three friends are 6. The total distance around the
running a relay race. The total Kennington Village Square is
distance is 3,210 meters. Each 3,928 feet. About how long is
person runs the same distance. one side of the village square?
About how many meters does
about feet
each friend run?
about meters

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Name Date
15–3
Homework Practice 3NS2.5, 3NS2.3
Two-Digit Quotients

Chapter Resources
Divide. Use models if needed. Check your answer.

1. 96 ÷ 2 2. 72 ÷ 8 3. 85 ÷ 5

Complete each table.

4. 5. 6.
Rule: Divide by 5. Rule: Divide by 3. Rule: Divide by 6.
Input Output Input Output Input Output

50 22 78
13 72 24 84
70 78 90 15
75 15 84 16

Divide. Use models if needed. Check your answer.


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7. Yuki swam 93 feet across the pool 8. Frank has 76 quarters in his pocket.
in 10 seconds. How many yards is How many dollars is that?
that?

Estimate by rounding. (Lesson 15–2)

9. 198 ÷ 4 10. 564 ÷ 7 11. 8,056 ÷ 2

19. To raise money for new uniforms, the student marching band
must sell 688 concert tickets in a week. About how many
tickets do they have to sell per day?

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Name Date
15–3
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS2.5, 3NS2.3
Two-Digit Quotients

Estimate first. Then divide.

1. At the Royce School there are 2. The art teacher has a collection of
48 cars in the teachers’ parking 56 paintbrushes. He puts the same
lot. The same number of cars are number of brushes into 4 different
parked in each of 3 rows. How sections of his art box. How many
many cars are parked in each row? brushes are in each section?
cars brushes

3. Clare works at a laundromat. She 4. For a class project, Marty has


will wash 72 pairs of pants. The 72 pieces of pasta. He is pasting
washing machine can wash 6 pairs the pasta into 6 equal rows on
of pants for each load of laundry. poster board. How many pieces
How many loads of laundry will will be in each row?
she need to do to wash all of the
pieces
pants?
loads

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6. There are 19 boys and 17 girls
in the third grade. Each day,
5. Gina has 42 pennies in her bank 3 students will give an oral report.
and 23 pennies in her wallet. She How many days will students be
wants to exchange the pennies for giving oral reports?
nickels. How many nickels will
days
she get?
nickels

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Name Date
15–4
Homework Practice 3MR1.2 3NS2.1
Problem-Solving Strategy

Chapter Resources
Solve. Use the work backward strategy.
1. Olivia is packing for vacation. Her 2. Gavin is saving up to buy a new
large suitcase will fit 36 items of bicycle. The one he wants costs
clothing and her small suitcase $125. His mother is giving him $50,
will fit 18 items of clothing. If she but he will have to earn the rest by
wants to bring 60 items of clothing, mowing lawns for $5 each. How
how many will she have to leave many lawns will he have to mow
behind? before he can buy the bicycle?

3. It’s 2 P.M. and Marvin needs to 4. Francesca is a flower girl in a


finish reading a 150-page book wedding. She has to drop rose
before returning it to the library petals on the ground with every
at 5 P.M. He has already read 90 step she takes down the aisle.
pages of the book. How many If it will take her 9 steps to make
pages an hour does he have to it down the aisle and her basket
read to return the book on time? holds 360 rose petals, about how
many petals can she drop each
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time?

Divide. Use models if needed. (Lesson 15–3)

5. 87 ÷ 3 = 6. 72 ÷ 6 = 7. 86 ÷ 2 =

Complete each table.

8. Rule: Divide by 4
9. Rule: Divide by 5 10. Rule: Divide by 7
Input Output Input Output Input Output

21 65 8
88 75 70
92 23 85 17 84
96 95 98 14

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Name Date
15–5
Homework Practice 3NS2.5, 3NS2.3
Three-Digit Quotients

Chapter Resources
Divide. Check your answers.

1. 984 ÷ 2 = 2. 625 ÷ 5 = 3. 791 ÷ 7 =

4. 558 ÷ 9 = 5. 873 ÷ 3 = 6. 336 ÷ 4 =

Use the table for Exercises 7–10.

Vitamins at the Drugstore


Item Number of Bottles Total Number of Tablets
in a Box in a Box
Vitamin A 6 810 tablets
Vitamin C 8 912 chewable tablets
calcium supplements 5 625 chewable tablets
multi-vitamins 9 945 tablets

7. How many Vitamin C tablets are in a bottle?


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8. How many Vitamin A tablets are in a bottle?

9. How many multi-vitamins are in a bottle?

10. How many calcium supplements are in a bottle?

Solve. Use the work backward strategy. (Lesson 15–4)


11. David’s dog needs a bath. If David 12. Winnie is helping her uncle build
uses a 5-gallon bucket to halfway a deck. They have 20 pieces of 12-
fill a 60-gallon tub, how many foot lumber. If they need 2 screws
buckets of water does he need to for every 3 feet of lumber, how
wash the dog? many screws do they need?

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Name Date
15–5
Problem–Solving Practice 3NS2.5, 3NS2.3
Three-Digit Quotients

Solve.

1. Megan divides 147 carrots equally 2. Mrs. Ruiz has 126 baseball cards.
into plastic snack bags. If she puts She gives an equal amount to each
7 carrots in each bag, how many of her 3 children. How many does
plastic snack bags does she need? each child get?

snack bags baseball cards

3. Elizabeth is making large candles. 4. Myla is the coach of the Pearson


She has 228 pounds of wax. Each Sack Race Club. The club has
candle will use 6 pounds of wax. 156 sacks and 7 members. After
How many candles can Elizabeth practice, each member takes the
make? same number of sacks home. Myla
takes home any sacks that are left
candles over. If each member takes home
as many sacks as possible, how
many does Myla take home?

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sacks
5. Larry plays on the school basketball 6. Rick plans to make 6 large
team. He scored a total of 134 birdhouses and 2 small ones. He
points in 5 games, and he scored will use a total of 148 nails. Each
the same number of points in each small birdhouse uses 8 nails. If
of the first 4 games. In the last each large birdhouse uses the
game he scored 30 points. How same number of nails, how many
many more points did he score in nails will be used for each large
the last game than in any of the birdhouse?
other 4 games?

more points

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Name Date
15–6
Homework Practice 3MR1.1, 3NS2.5
Problem-Solving Investigation

Chapter Resources
Use any strategy shown below to solve. Tell what strategy you used.
• Make an organized list • Act it out
• Draw a picture • Use logical reasoning
• Work backward

1. School starts at 8:45 A.M. Nick needs 30 minutes to get


dressed and eat breakfast. It then takes him 35 minutes to
get to school. What time does he have to wake up to be on
time for school?

2. Melanie planted chives in her herb garden. After 2 weeks,


they grew to 4 inches. The next day, they measured 5 and
a half inches. The day after that, they measured 7 inches. If
they continue growing at this rate, how tall were the chives
the day after that?
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3. Pepe needs to put lightbulbs on the second floor of his


house. Two of the bedrooms have ceiling lamps that need
3 bulbs each. The other bedroom has 2 lamps that each
need 1 bulb. The 4 bulbs above the bathroom mirror also
need to be replaced. How many bulbs does Pepe need in all?

Divide. Check your answers. (Lesson 15–5)

4. 795 ÷ 3 = 5. 666 ÷ 9 =
6. 672 ÷ 7 = 7. 408 ÷ 8 =
8. 222 ÷ 6 = 9. 425 ÷ 5 =
10. 272 ÷ 4 = 11. 477 ÷ 9 =
Grade 3 231 Chapter 15
Name Date
15–7
Homework Practice 3NS3.3, 3NS2.7
Divide Money

Chapter Resources
Divide. Check your answer.

1. ₦6.86 ÷ 7 2. ₦2.88 ÷ 9 3. ₦7.48 ÷ 4


4. ₦1.32 ÷ 6 5. ₦9.36 ÷ 3 6. ₦4.95 ÷ 5
Find the unit cost.
7. 8 jump ropes for $6.96 8. 5 tropical fish for $7.95
9. 6 organic apples for $7.44 10. 4 beach balls for $9.68

Use the hardware store’s price list for Exercises 11–13.

Hardware Item Cost


Rope 3 yards for ₦6.27
Chain 5 yards for ₦5.75
Twine 9 yards for ₦2.70

11. Which is cheapest per yard?


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12. Jackie bought 10 yards of one kind of item and it cost


$11.50. What did she buy?
13. How many yards of rope did Hans buy if he spent $18.81?

Solve. Tell what strategy you used. (Lesson 15–6)


14. Payton visited a modern artist’s 15. A rowboat can carry 2 adults and
exhibit. The first painting was a circle 3 children across the lake. How
divided into 2 sections. The second many rowboats are needed to take
was a triangle divided into 8 adults and 12 children across the
4 sections, and the third was a lake?
square divided into 5 sections. What
do you think the fourth painting
looked like?

Grade 3 233 Chapter 15


Name Date
15–7
Problem-Solving Practice 3NS3.3, 3NS2.7
Divide Money

Solve.
1. Nate bought 2 hats for ₦9.20. How 2. How much does one bottle of
much did each one cost? water and one banana cost if
6 bottles of water cost ₦6.12 and
5 bananas cost ₦3.50?

3. Danielle and Maria have a total of 4. Matt’s dad spent ₦6.50 on two
₦4.50. How much will they each games. How much did the
get if the money is split evenly? games each cost if they both cost
the same?

5. Raffle tickets are ₦2 each. Allison 6. Sam paid ₦7.40 for 4 coffee mugs.
spent ₦10 on them. How many How much did each one cost?
raffle tickets did she buy?

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7. James cuts grass in his 8. Amy, Sarah, and Lindsay have a
neighborhood. He made ₦6.58 in total of ₦6.24. How much will each
two days. If he earned the same receive if they share the money
amount each day, how much did equally?
he earn each day?

Grade 3 234 Chapter 15

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