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Set 29
1.
At noon the temperature was 89 degrees. At 5:00 pm it was 6 degrees warmer than
it was at noon. Use the open sentence to find out what the temperature (t) was at
5:00 pm. 89 + 6 = t
2.
Marie scored 32 points during a basketball game. This is 11 points less than Tina.
How many points (p) did Tina score? Use the open sentence, p – 11 = 32, to
determine how many points Tina scored.
3.
There are 48 boys in gym class. How many 6-person volleyball teams (t) can be
made from this class? Use the open sentence, 48 ÷ 6 = t.
4.
Allen is paid $5 for every yard he mows. He made $75 in one month. How many
yards (y) did he mow that month? Write an open sentence that describes this
situation then solve it.
5.
There are 6 rows of chairs in Jessie’s classroom. Each row has 7 desks. How
many desks (d) are there in the classroom? Write an open sentence that describes
this situation then solve it.
6.
A softball team started the season with 136 baseballs. At the end of the three-
month season, there were 14 baseballs left. How many baseballs (b) were lost?
7.
The table shows the number of TV viewers (in millions) for five days. Thomas is
going to make both a bar graph and a line graph to display the data.
Day of Week
Number of Viewers (in millions)
Sunday
76
Monday
82
Tuesday
81
Wednesday
83
Thursday
79
Which display is best to show a comparison of the data? Why?
Which display is best to show changes as the week progresses? Why?
8.
The number 0.49 has 4 tenths and 9 hundredths. Why is it read 49 hundredths?
9.
What is the place value of the 6 in 47.65?
10. The number 9,500 has been rounded to the nearest hundredth. What is the smallest
number it could have been?

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