Choose a strategy from the list or use another
strategy you know to solve each problem.- A painting is
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4 in. longer than it is wide.
Its length is 8.2 in. The frame is 2.7 in. thick.
What is the width of the painting? - James folds a sheet of drawing paper in fourths,
then in thirds, and then in half. Estimate into
how many parts his paper is divided. Check
your answer by following the folds. - Gary uses ^38 of a 10-oz tube of raw sienna
to paint a fall landscape. He also uses
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5
oz
of cadmium red for the same picture.
How much more raw sienna than
cadmium red does he use? - Joanne paints these three pictures. If she continues
the pattern in a fourth picture, what fractional part
of that picture will be shaded? - Every third day Fran goes to calligraphy class.
Every fourth day she goes to pottery class. On March 1
Fran attends both classes. How many days that month
will the 2 classes fall on the same day? - Gesso boards are advertised at 3 boards for $14.20.
How much would Danielle pay for one gesso board?
Use the circle graph for problems 18 –20.- What part of Abby’s artworks are oil paintings?
- What type of art makes up
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5 of Abby’s work? - Abby did 5 charcoals this week. When these
charcoals are added to the data from the graph,
what part of her work will be charcoals? - Write a problem modeled on problem 17.
Have a classmate solve it.
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Pastels
Charcoals
Oils
Acrylics
Watercolors
Abby’s Artworks
Use These Strategies
Guess and Test
Write an Equation
Use a Graph
Find a Pattern
Interpret the Remainder
Use More Than One Step
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