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Additional Practice Investigation 1

Bits and Pieces I

1. a. For each of the fraction strips below, write a fraction that expresses how
much of the strip is shaded.

i. ii.

iii. iv.

v. vi.

b. For each of the six fraction strips above, write a fraction that expresses how
much of the strip is not shaded.
c. What is the relationship between the fraction you wrote for the shaded
part and the fraction you wrote for the unshaded part for each of the six
fraction strips? Explain your reasoning.

2. The drawing shows the controls on a

small, portable stereo system. Use the
drawing to answer each of the following
questions. Record all of your answers as
fractions.
a. What fraction of the total volume is
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the stereo playing?

b. What fraction of the total bass output
is the stereo playing?
c. What fraction of the total treble output is the stereo playing?
d. If the volume of the stereo is turned down to half the current volume, what
fraction of the total volume will be the new volume? Explain your
reasoning.
e. If the bass control on the stereo is adjusted up so that the stereo is playing
at double the bass output it is playing at now, what fraction of the total bass
output will be the new bass output? Explain your reasoning.

3. A bag contains 24 marbles (Note: You may want to use 24 cubes, chips,
marbles, or other objects to help you solve this problem.)
a. If 16 of the marbles are removed from the bag to play a game, what
fraction of the marbles are left in the bag?
b. Of the 16 marbles taken from the bag, one-fourth are put back in the bag.
Now how many marbles are in the bag? Explain your reasoning.

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Additional Practice (continued) Investigation 1

Bits and Pieces I

4. Joey’s father stops at the gas station to buy gas. The car has a 16-gallon tank,
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and the fuel gauge says there is 8 of a tank of gas.
a. How many gallons of gas are in the tank?
b. If Joey’s father buys 6 gallons of gas, what fraction of the tank will the car’s
fuel gauge read?
c. What fraction of the gas tank is empty after Joey’s father puts 6 gallons of
gas in the tank?

5. For parts (a)–(b), use fraction strips or some other method to name the point
with a fraction.
a.
0 1

b.
0 1

6. For parts (a)–(c), copy the grids on your paper. Shade each grid to represent
the given fraction.
4
a. Represent the fraction 5 on each grid.

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b. Represent the fraction 7 on each grid.

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c. Represent the fraction 6 on each grid.

7. Tony is driving from Alma, Michigan to Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The
drive covers a total distance of 1,100 miles. Tony’s car can travel 400 miles on a
full tank of gas. How many tanks of gas will Tony’s car need for the entire trip?
Explain your reasoning.

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Additional Practice Investigation 2

Bits and Pieces I

1. For each pair of fractions, insert a less-than symbol (<), greater-than symbol
(>), or an equals symbol (
) between the fractions to make the true statement.
1 5 1 2 5 1
a. 2 10
b. 3 5
c. 12 3
4 2 3 8 5 3
d. 5 3
e. 4 10
f. 8 7

2. a. For each pair of fractions, insert a less-than symbol (<), greater-than

symbol (>), or an equals symbol (
) between the fractions to make the
true statement.
2 2 4 4 3 3
i. 3 5
ii. 6 5
iii. 4 8
b. Describe a way to compare two fractions when the numerators are the
same.
3. a. For each pair of fractions, insert a less-than symbol (<), greater-than
symbol (>), or an equals symbol (
) between the fractions to make the
true statement.
2 4 4 7 5 3
i. 5 5
ii. 9 9
iii. 11 11
b. Describe a way to compare two fractions when the denominators are the
same.
4. For each group of fractions, rewrite the fractions in order from least to
greatest.
2 1 3 2 24 1 11 1
a. 3, 2 , 4 , 6 b. 4 , 4, 16, 7
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1 1 1 1 1 11 3 3 1 3
c. 2, 5, 3, 9, 6 d. 16, 4, 8, 2, 16

5. For each of the six fraction strips below, write two fractions that express the
portion of the strip that is shaded.
a. b.

c. d.

e. f.

6. Find a fraction between each pair of fractions given.

4 5 1 1 1 2
a. 7 and 7 b. 3 and 4 c. 8 and 8

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Additional Practice (continued) Investigation 2

Bits and Pieces I

7. Copy each number line below and estimate where the number 1 would be.
Explain the strategy you used for each number line.

a.
1
0 4

b.
2
0 3

c.
0 112

8. For each shape below, write a fraction to express the portion of the entire
shape that is shaded.

a. b. c. d.

9. Copy and complete the following table:

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7 35 19
Fraction 4 3 4

Mixed Number 3 23 2 56 7 12

10. Lisa has two oranges that are the same size but each one is divided
differently. One orange has been divided into five equal-size sections and the
other orange has been divided into ten equal-size sections.
a. If Brian eats three pieces of the orange with five sections, what fraction of
the orange will he get?

b. Lisa gave John the orange with ten sections. John wants to eat the same
amount as Brian. How many pieces of his orange will John have to eat?
Explain.

c. Lisa bought a new orange that she wants to share equally among three
people. This orange has been divided into five equal-size sections. Explain
how Lisa should cut the orange so three people can share it.

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Skill: Comparing Fractions Investigation 2

Bits and Pieces I

Name the fractions modeled and determine if they are equivalent.

1. 2. 3.

Compare each pair of fractions. Use <, >, or
.

7 3 4 1 6 4 7 11
4. 8 10
5. 5 2
6. 12 8
7. 15 15

4 6 7 2 8 1 10 8
8. 5 10
9. 12 3
10. 15 2
11. 15 12

4 7 2 3 1 11 7 1
12. 9 9
13. 5 8
14. 2 20
15. 16 2

Order from least to greatest.

1 1 1 1 5 7 1 2 3
16. 4, 3, 6 17. 2, 6, 8 18. 4, 5, 8
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7 5 2 3 5 1 9 11 15
19. 8, 9, 3 20. 8, 6, 2 21. 10, 12, 16

3 1 7 5 2 7 15 7 1
22. 4, 2, 8 23. 9, 3, 12 24. 16, 8, 2

5 1
25. A pattern requires a seam of at least 8 in. Rachel sewed a seem 2 in. wide.
Did she sew the seam wide enough? Explain.

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Skill: Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions Investigation 2

Bits and Pieces I

Write each mixed number as an improper fraction.

7 3 1 2
1. 18 2. 24 3. 73 4. 83

3 1 5 9
5. 34 6. 44 7. 56 8. 110

11 7 3 7
9. 312 10. 48 11. 25 12. 215

Write each improper fraction as a mixed number in simplest form.

15 8 5 7
13. 2 14. 3 15. 2 16. 3

11 7 9 20
17. 10 18. 6 19. 8 20. 8

27 26 35 17
21. 12 22. 18 23. 21 24. 4

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25. Find the improper fraction with a denominator of 6 that is equivalent to 52.

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26. Find the improper fraction with a denominator of 12 that is equivalent to 104.

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Additional Practice Investigation 3

Bits and Pieces I

1. In the diagram, the hundredths grid is the whole. Use

the grid to answer each of the following questions and
write each answer in both decimal and fraction form.
a. What portion of the grid is shaded gray?
b. What portion of the grid is striped?
c. What portion of the grid is checkered?
d. What portion of the grid is blank?

2. For each pair of numbers, insert a less-than symbol (<), a greater-than symbol
(>), or an equals symbol (
) between the numbers to make a true statement.
a. 0.305 0.35 b. 0.123 0.1002

c. 0.25 0.25000 d. 0.25 0.025

e. 3.45 3.045 f. 12.03 12.30

3. For each pair of numbers, insert a less-than symbol (<), greater-than symbol
(>), or an equals symbol (
) between the numbers to make a true statement.
2 2 4
a. 2.5 25 b. 0.65 3
c. 0.8 7

5 3 9
d. 8 0.625 e. 0.3 f. 2.1 110
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11 11 3 8
g. 12 11
h. 6 0.5 i. 9 810

4. Copy each number line below. In each case, two of the marks are labeled.
Label the unlabeled marks with decimal numbers.

a.
0.3 0.6

b.
0.11 0.13

c.
0.03 0.12

d.
0.5 0.75

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Additional Practice (continued) Investigation 3

Bits and Pieces I

5. Name three fractions that are equivalent to each decimal below. Explain
your reasoning. Draw a picture if it helps you explain your thinking.
a. 0.60 b. 1.7 c. 0.05 d. 2.3 e. 0.15 f. 0.625

6. Name a decimal that is equivalent to each fraction below. Explain your

reasoning. Draw a picture if it helps you explain your thinking.
1 3 7 3 111 18
a. 2 b. 15 c. 4 d. 8 e. 20 f. 24

7. Sarah can jog at a steady pace of 4.75 miles per hour, and Tony can jog at a
steady pace of 4.25 miles per hour.
a. How many miles can Sarah jog in 30 minutes? Explain your reasoning.

b. How many miles can Tony jog in 30 minutes?

c. If Sarah and Tony jog for 45 minutes, how much farther will Sarah go than
Tony? Explain your reasoning.

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8. Each small square on the grid represents 5.
a. What whole number is represented by the whole grid?

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b. What decimal is represented by the shaded region of the grid?

9. Each small square on the grid represents 0.25.

a. What whole number is represented by the whole grid?

b. What fraction is represented by the shaded region of the grid?

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10. Paul claims that the fraction 3 is a good estimate for the decimal 0.3.
a. Do you agree or disagree with Paul’s claim? Explain your reasoning.

b. Is Paul’s estimate less than, greater than, or equal to 0.3? Explain your
reasoning.

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Skill: Comparing and Ordering Decimals Investigation 3

Bits and Pieces I

Insert <, >, or
in each box to make a true statement.

1. 0.62 0.618 2. 9.8 9.80 3. 1.006 1.02 4. 41.3 41.03

5. 2.01 2.011 6. 1.400 1.40 7. 5.079 5.08 8. 12.96 12.967

9. 15.8 15.800 10. 7.98 7.89 11. 8.02 8.020 12. 5.693 5.299

Order each set of decimals on a number line.

13. 0.2, 0.6, 0.5 14. 0.26, 0.3, 0.5, 0.59, 0.7

0 1.0 0 1.0

15. Three points are graphed on the number line below. Write statements
comparing 0.3 to 0.5 and 0.5 to 0.7.

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0 0.3 0.5 0.7 1.0

16. Models for three decimals are shown below.

a. Write decimal names that each shaded part represents.

b. Rewrite the decimals in order from least to greatest.

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Additional Practice Investigation 4

Bits and Pieces I

1. For each of the grids given below, express the shaded region of the grid as a
fraction, a decimal, and a percent.

a. b. c.

d. e. f.

2. Angie and Jim conducted a survey of their sixth-grade classmates in their

mathematics class. They found out the following information:

• 70% of the students in the class do homework three or more nights each
week.

• Of the students who do homework three or more nights each week, half do
homework five nights each week.

a. What percentage of the students in the class do homework two nights or

less each week? Explain your reasoning.
b. What fraction of the students in the class do homework five nights each
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week? Explain your reasoning.

c. What percentage of students in the class do homework three or four nights
a week? Explain your reasoning.
d. From the information provided, can you tell how many students are in the
class? Explain why or why not.
1
3. In a class of 24 sixth-graders, 25% walk to school, 8 ride bicycles to school,
1
3
take the bus to school, and the remainder of the class are driven to school by
their parents or guardians.
a. How many students in the class walk to school? Explain your reasoning.
b. How many students in the class ride bicycles to school? Explain your
reasoning.
c. How many students in the class take the bus to school?
d. What fraction of the class are driven to school by their parent or guardian?
Explain your reasoning.
e. What percentage of the students in the class walk, ride bicycles or the bus,
or are driven to at school by a parent or guardian? Explain your reasoning.

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Additional Practice (continued) Investigation 4

Bits and Pieces I

4. Express the shaded region of each drawing as a fraction, a decimal, and as a

percent.

a. b.

c. d.

5. In one competition, the archery team had to shoot at targets from three
different distances: 10 m, 20 m, and 30 m. The number of hits and the number
of shots for each distance are given below. Write their score for each round as
a fraction, a decimal, and a percent.
a. at 10 m: 42 hits out of 50 shots

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b. at 20 m: 37 hits out of 50 shots

c. at 30 m: 18 hits out of 50 shots

6. Fill in the missing parts of the table.

Fraction Decimal Percent

3
8
0.88

35%
114
0.625
275%

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Skill: Percents, Fractions, and Decimals Investigation 4

Bits and Pieces I

Write each percent as a decimal and as a fraction.

1. 46% 2. 17% 3. 90% 4. 5%

Write each decimal as a percent and as a fraction.

5. 0.02 6. 0.45 7. 0.4 8. 0.92

Write each fraction as a decimal and as a percent.

3 7 13 17
9. 5 10. 10 11. 25 12. 20

13. Write each fraction or decimal as a percent. Write the percent (without the
percent sign) in the puzzle.
ACROSS DOWN 1. 2.

3 13
1. 5 1. 20 3.

1
2. 5 2. 0.25 4.

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1 5. 6.
3. 0.55 3. 2

3
5. 0.23 4. 20
7. 8.
7
6. 20
5. 0.24
9. 10.
3
7. 0.17 6. 10

9. 0.4 7. 0.1

9 4
10. 25 8. 25

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Independent Practice 1: Decimal Word Problems

Eric studied for 17.5 hours over a period of 4.5 days. On average,
1 how much did he study each day?
If licorice cost $6.59 a pound, how much would it cost to buy a
2 quarter pound of licorice? (Hint: Convert the mixed fraction to an
improper fraction or decimal and multiply by the quantity required.)
If your weekly salary is $415.00, how much do you take home each
week after deductions are made for federal income tax of $82.13,
3 state tax of $9.74, social security and Medicare tax of $31.75, and
retirement plan deduction of $41.50.
4 Carpeting costs $7.99 a yard. If Jan buys 12.4 yards, how much will
it cost her? (Round it to two decimal places)
Kim's scores in the diving competition were 7.2, 6.975, 8.0, and
5 6.96. What is her total score?
If you had a half a dollar, three quarters, eight dimes, six
6 nickels, and nine pennies, how much money would you have all
together? (Hint: Add 0.50, 0.75, 0.80, 0.30 and 0.09)
7 Sally scored 9.007 in gymnastics. Jack scored 8.949. How much higher
was Sally's score than Jack's?
All the people of a neighborhood pooled together and won the
8 lottery. They won $10,000,000 and each person got a 0.02 share. How
much money did each person receive?
9 If 58 out of 100 students in a school are boys. Write decimal
expression for the part of the school that consists of boys.

10 A computer processes information in nanoseconds. A nanosecond is one

billionth of a second. Write this number as decimal.
Five swimmers are entered into competition. Four of the swimmers
11 have had their turns. Their scores are 9.8s, 9.75 s, 9.79 s and 9.81
s. What score must the last swimmer get in order to win the
competition?
To make miniature ice cream truck, you need tires with a diameter
12 between 1.465 cm and 1.472 cm. Will a tire that is 1.4691 cm in
diameter work?
Ellen wanted to buy the following items: A DVD holder for $19.95,
13 headphones for $41.25 and personal stereo for $30.65. How much money
does Ellen need?
14 What is combined thickness of these shims: 0.008, 0.125, 0.15, 0.185
and 0.005 cm?
Melissa purchased $39.46 in groceries at a store. The cashier gave
15 her $1.46 in change from $50 bill. How much change should Melissa
get from Cashier?
16 If a 10 foot piece of electrical tape has 0.037 feet cut from it.
What is the new length of tape?

17 A director replayed 231 of the 1000 scenes filmed for a movie. Write
a decimal to represent the part of movie the director replayed.
The times for three runners in a 100 yard dash are 9.85 s, 9.6 s and
18 9.625 s. What is the winning time?

19 A cylinder is normally 3.4375 cm in diameter. If it is remade to be

0.095 cm larger, what is the new size of the cylinder?
Brandon is training for 200 meter dash. His best running time so far
20 was 31.25 seconds. If Brandon wants to run the dash in 27 seconds,
how much time must he cut in order to reach his goal?

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Independent Practice 1: Fraction Word Problems

Jane had a whole pie. She cut it into 8 pieces. She ate one piece
1 and gave Karen and Candy 2 pieces. What is the fraction of the pie
that is left?
Molly baked a dozen cookies. She ate 2. She gave Missy 2, Cindy 2,
2 and Shelly 2. What is the fraction for the number of pieces that are
left?
Tom had 12 baseball cards. He gave Steve 3 cards, Billy 3 cards, and
3 Bob 3 cards. What is the fraction of cards that he gave away?
Juliet had 35 blank computer disks that she wanted to share with her
4 friends, Cindy and Jessie. She wanted to divide the disk among the
three of them so that each one would have an equal amount. What is
the fraction of disks that she would have left over?
Carol had a birthday party. She had a cake that she could cut in 12
equal sizes. She wanted to invite 20 friends over for her birthday
5 party. How many sheet cakes would she need if she friend received
two pieces of cake? Would there be any cake left over? If so, what
would the fraction be?
Paula had 2 pitchers of fruit punch for her birthday party. She
6 could fill 24 cups using 1 pitcher. Would she have enough fruit
punch so that each of her 20 friends could have a refill? If so,
would she have any left? What fraction would she have left?
Careen had a large bag of candy that contained 169 pieces. She
7 wanted to divide the candy into equal amounts with her friends,
Susan and Megan. What fraction of candy would she have left after
dividing the candy?
Christ bought two bags of Christmas candy for $4.00. She gave the
8 cashier $10.00. How much would she get back? What is the fraction of
her money that she spent?
9 Ben had 96 pictures. He gave his friends, Megan and Christy, 2/3 of
his pictures, and he kept 1/3. How many pictures did Ben give away?
Dick had $135 that he collected from doing lawn work. His friends,
Tom and Jim, helped with the lawn work, too. He needed to divide the
10 amount equally. Would he have anything left over? If he did, what
fraction would be left?
11 Jessie bought 8/9 of a pound of chocolates and ate 1/3 of a pound.
How much was left?
Tim bought a board that was 7/8 of a yard long. He cut off 1/2 of a
12 yard. How much was left?

13 Sammy rode his bike 2/5 of a mile and walked another 3/4 of a mile.
How far did he travel?

14 Polly walked 3/4 of a mile before lunch and 1/2 of a mile after
lunch. How far did she walk in all?
Donne bought 3/4 of a pound of jellybeans and 5/8 pound of gummy
15 bears. How much did the candy weighin total?

16 The track is 3/5 of a mile long. If Tyrone jogged around it twice,

how far did he run?

17 Which apple weighs more, one that weighs 2/3 of a pound or one that
weighs 5/6 of a pound?
Stany ordered two pizzas cut into eighths. If he ate 5/8 of a pizza,
18 how much was left?

19 Sandy bought 2¾ yards of red fabric and 1¼ of blue. How much cloth
did she buy in all?
20 An equilateral triangle measures 3½ inches on one side. What is the
perimeter of the triangle?

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Independent Practice 1: Least Common Multiple

1. Find the least common multiple of 15 and 60.

2. Find the least common multiple of 18 and 4.

3. Find the least common multiple of 88 and 42.

4. Find the least common multiple of 62 and 16.

5. Find the least common multiple of 24, 48 and 58.

6. Find the least common multiple of 20 and 45.

7. Find the least common multiple of 66 and 72.

8. Find the least common multiple of 27, 18 and 72.

9. Find the least common multiple of 66, 44 and 22.

10. Find the least common multiple of 90 and 36.

11. Find the least common multiple of 11 and 55.

12. Find the least common multiple of 13 and 52.

13. Find the least common multiple of 17, 68 and 119.

14. Find the least common multiple of 25 and 65.

15. Find the least common multiple of 9, 45 and 81.

16. Find the least common multiple of 14 and 98.

17. Find the least common multiple of 26 and 62.

18. Find the least common multiple of 15, 45 and 90.

19. Find the least common multiple of 3, 30 and 90.

20. Find the least common multiple of 16, 24 and 52.

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Independent Practice 2: Least Common Multiple

1. Find the least common multiple of 27 and 75.

2. Find the least common multiple of 13 and 44.

3. Find the least common multiple of 8 and 40.

4. Find the least common multiple of 64 and 16.

5. Find the least common multiple of 14 and 28.

6. Find the least common multiple of 50 and 75.

7. Find the least common multiple of 18, 36 and 72.

8. Find the least common multiple of 18, 54 and 74.

9. Find the least common multiple of 4, 44 and 24.

10. Find the least common multiple of 20 and 36.

11. Find the least common multiple of 7 and 56.

12. Find the least common multiple of 14 and 56.

13. Find the least common multiple of 12, 60 and 120.

14. Find the least common multiple of 5 and 85.

15. Find the least common multiple of 18, 144 and 180.

16. Find the least common multiple of 6 and 96.

17. Find the least common multiple of 8 and 64.

18. Find the least common multiple of 18, 72 and 90.

19. Find the least common multiple of 10, 50 and 120.

20. Find the least common multiple of 12, 54 and 60.

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