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Thinking Skills Look at the picture. Fill in the blanks.

This ruler is smaller than in real life.

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The paper clip is The eraser is but

centimeters shorter than the pen. centimeters longer than the paper clip,

centimeters shorter than the pen.

3.

If the three objects are placed in a straight line, what will the length of the line be? The line will be centimeters long.
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Solve. Show your work. 4. Sean makes a 100-centimeter rope by joining three pieces of rope together. What are the lengths of the pieces that he joins together?

25 cm 42 cm

18 cm 75 cm

60 cm 40 cm

The lengths of the pieces are centimeters, and 5.

centimeters, centimeters.
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Belinda is 90 centimeters tall. Raymond is 24 centimeters taller than Kate. Kate is 8 centimeters shorter than Belinda. What is the total height of Raymond and Kate?

Their total height is

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Strategies Fill in the blanks. 6.

90 m 19 m

8m 12 m

10 m 10 m

Solve. Show your work. 7.

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Mr. Denver builds three toy houses for his children. Melvins house is 15 centimeters taller than Bettys house. Bettys house is 25 centimeters taller than Serenes house. The total height of the three houses is 125 centimeters. What is the height of Serenes house?
Melvin's Betty's Serene's 25 cm 15 cm 125 cm

Serenes house is

centimeters tall.

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For every 5 meters that Ben swims up a river, he drifts 3 meters back down the river. Ben travels 12 meters up the river. How many meters does Ben swim?

5m

Ben swims

meters in all.

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3m

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Mr. Foster places 11 garden lights along an 80-meter path. Each light is placed an equal distance apart. How far away is the sixth garden light from the second?

0m

80 m

The sixth garden light is second. 10.

meters away from the

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Two pieces of wood are glued together. One piece is twice as long as the other. The total length of the glued wood is 250 centimeters. What is the length of the shorter piece of wood?
250 cm

50 cm

The shorter piece of wood is

centimeters long.
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PROBLEM SOLVING

Exploration Solve. Show your work. 11. Write two different ways to nd out how much longer the eraser is than the paper clip.

This ruler is smaller than in real life.

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The gure shows six small rectangles that form a big rectangle. Each small rectangle has a length of 15 centimeters and a width of 12 centimeters. A snail crawls from A to B along the straight lines.
A 12 cm 15 cm

What is the shortest distance the snail can crawl?

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The shortest distance the snail can crawl is centimeters.

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Journal Writing
Solve and explain. 13. Fill in the blank. Explain how you found the length of the leaf.
This ruler is smaller than in real life.

The length of the leaf is

centimeters.

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Look at the bar model. Write a real-world problem.

? 50 cm 18 cm ?

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