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Grade 5 Chapter Eight Math Task Practice
ANSWER KEY
A full shopping bag holds 5
3
pounds of food and packaging. Jared can carry 4
4
full shopping bags into his house on one trip. How much food can Jared carry in one
trip?
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Model and/or Equation:
Students may illustrate the problem by drawing the bags and then used repeated addition of the mixed
numbers to solve.
5
3
3
3
3
12
 5  5  5  20  23
4
4
4
4
4
Others may solve by converting the mixed number to an improper fraction, and then multiplying by the
whole number.
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5
3 23

4 4
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23
x4  23
4
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Written explanation: SAMPLE ANSWER
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 The answer is23 pounds of food. I know this because I added 5 3 up 4 times which was the number
4
of bags he can carry he 1 trip. First I added the whole number 5 up four times and got 20. Then I added
3
up four times and got an answer of 3. Finally, I added 20 plus 3 and got my final answer of 23
4
Pounds.
SAMPLE ANSWER: The answer is 23 pounds of food. I know this because I changed 5
3
to an improper
4
fraction by doing 5 (the whole number) times 4 (the denominator) which equaled 20, plus 3 (numerator)
and found an improper fraction of
23
Finally, I multiplied my improper fraction by 4 (the number of
4
bags he can carry) and found an answer of 23 pounds.
Standard 5: NF6