Algebra Readiness Made Easy Grade 5

DOLLAR DILEMMA

Name _____ Date __

Ima Thinker

What is the cost of each cat’s earphones?

Use the facts to figure out the costs.

FACTS:

A) Mouser’s earphones cost $1 plus

the cost of Cookie’s earphones.

B) Cookie’s earphones cost 8 times as

much as Tigger’s earphones.

C) Tigger’s earphones cost the cost of

Smudge’s earphones.

D) Smudge’s earphones cost $10.

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I’ll start with the

fact that gives

the cost of Smudge’s

earphones.

1.What is the cost of

Tigger’s earphones? ___

2.How did you figure out the cost of Tigger’s earphones?

3.What is the cost of Cookie’s earphones? ___

4.What is the cost of Mouser’s earphones? ___

SOLVE

THE

PROBLEM

Algebra Readiness Made Easy: Gr

. 5
© 2008 by Greenes, Findell & Cavanagh, Scholastic Teaching Resources

Cookie

Smudge

Mouser

Tigger

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