6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

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In a typical week, a chicken farmer collects about

1164 eggs each d ay. If all of the eggs are sent to the

market, how many dozen eggs are sent each week?

Is there hidden informationin the problem?

Ye s , there are two hidden facts.

7 days
1 week

12 eggs 
one dozen

Step 1: First, to find how many eggs are collected

in one week, multiply:

7  1164 


days eggs per day eggs in one week

Step 2: Then, to find how many dozen eggs are sent

to the market each week, divide:

eggs collected  12 
 number of dozens

in one week eggs sent to the market

Check your computations by using inverse operations.

8148  7 
 1164 Ye s. 12  679 
 8148 Ye s.

142

 1164 66 6 79

 1117 1 2 
 8  1  4  8

 8148  72

6  794

76  84

76  108

76  108

Each week 679 dozen eggs are sent to the market.

Visualize yourself in the problem as you

reread it. List the facts and the question.

Fact: Each d ay, 1164 eggs are collected.

Question:How many dozen eggs

are collected in 1 week?

Strategy: Use More Than One Step

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dozen eggs sent

to the market

eggs collected

each week

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