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Decimal Ops

Check Up 1 for use after Investigation 1

1. Estimate the following. Explain how you made your estimate.

a. 0.52 + 1.2
b. 4.4 – 1.29

2. Marie wants to decorate a gift box with ribbon. She measures three pieces
that she has with a ruler. They are 32.3 centimeters, 41.19 centimeters,
and 57.8 centimeters long. Marie needs 200 centimeters of ribbon for the
box. Does she have enough? Explain how you know.

3. The grocery store is running a sale on two different brands of juice.

DGS brand is 4 cans for $5. The LIIT brand is 3 cans for $4.
a. Which brand is a better deal? Explain.

b. What is the unit rate (price per can) for each brand?

DGS unit rate: LIIT unit rate:

c. For each brand, what does it cost to buy 18 cans of juice?

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Check Up 1 (continued)

4. a. Elijah and Blake found an experiment in a science

magazine. They wonder how big the glass container Bubble Maker
needs to be to hold the other materials. Experiment Materials

Elijah writes: Blake writes: • Clear glass container

• 118.29 milliliters of water
118.29 + 59.15 + 4.93 118.29 – 59.15 – 4.93
• 59.15 milliliters of oil
Which expression, Elijah’s or Blake’s, will help them • 4.93 milliliters of salt
find out how many milliliters the glass container will
need to hold? Explain.

b. Elijah and Blake want to make the experiment three times larger.
Elijah writes: Blake writes:
3(118.29 + 59.15 + 4.93) 3 × 118.29 + 3 × 59.15 + 3 × 4.93
Which expression, Elijah’s or Blake’s, will help them find out how
many milliliters the new glass container will need to hold? Explain.

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