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Date:
Lesson 3.4
Real-World Problems: Fractions and Decimals
Solve. Show your work.
1.
Sophia buys
4
1
pound of sunflower seeds. She eats
pound of seeds each
5
10
day. How many days will it take Sophia to eat all the sunflower seeds?
2.
5
minute to run one lap around the track. If Eugene runs
6
1
around the track at the same pace for hour, how many laps will
4
Eugene takes
3.
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A pound of beans costs $4.70. Mrs. Patel buys 6.5 pounds of beans. How
much does she pay for the beans? Check for reasonableness of your answer.
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Eugene run?
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It takes 85 pails of water to fill up a tank. If the capacity of each pail is
2.65 gallons, what is the capacity of the tank? Check for reasonableness
of your answer.
5.
A chef buys 5.46 pounds of ground turkey to make some casseroles.
Each casserole requires 0.13 pound of turkey. How many casseroles can
the chef make?
6.
Wyatt uses
1
2
3
gallon of paint to paint two identical doghouses. Wyatt has
4
5 gallons of paint.
a)
Assuming that the doghouses are identical, how many doghouses can
1
2
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Wyatt paint with 5 gallons of paint?
b)
How many gallons of paint will Wyatt have left over?
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Name: 7.
Date: Karen buys 8.5 pounds of flour. She uses 2.5 pounds to bake bread.
She keeps the rest of the flour in small storage bags. If each storage
bag contains
8.
2
pound of flour, how many storage bags does she use?
5
Coach Ruiz orders three different colors of T-shirts for her soccer team.
Of the different T-shirts,
1
are red and the rest are white and blue.
5
She orders an equal number of white T-shirts and blue T-shirts. There is
9.
Jasmine buys 21 cans of dog food. She gives
1
of the cans of dog food to
3
her neighbor and she keeps the rest of the cans for her puppy. Jasmine’s
puppy eats
4
of a can of dog food each day. How many days’ supply of dog
7
food does Jasmine have for her puppy?
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a total of 18 white T-shirts. How many T-shirts does Coach Ruiz order?
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10. Ramon spends
utilities, and
2
1
of his monthly income on rent, of his monthly income on
5
5
3
of the amount remaining on food and recreation. Ramon saves
4
the rest. If the amount he saves each month is $193.50, what is Ramon’s
monthly income?
11. Henry bakes 84 bread rolls and fruit muffins. After giving away 18 rolls,
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there are
5
as many rolls as muffins left. How many rolls did Henry bake?
6
1
of her father’s age. Her father will be 52 years old
5
1
in 7 years. In how many years will Jane’s age be of her father’s age?
4
12. Jane’s present age is
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