DOLLAR DILEMMA
Name _____ Date __
What is the cost of each dog’s badminton racquet?
Use the facts to figure out the costs.
FACTS:
A) Skipper’s racquet costs $2 less
than Pooch’s racquet.
B) Pooch’s racquet costs $3 plus the
cost of Callie’s racquet.
C) Callie’s racquet costs $2 more
than Holly’s racquet.
D) Holly’s racquet costs $6.
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1.What is the cost of
Callie’s racquet? ___
2.How did you figure out the cost of Callie’s racquet?
3.What is the cost of Pooch’s racquet? ___
4.What is the cost of Skipper’s racquet? ___
PROBLEM
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Pooch
Holly
Skipper
Callie
Algebra Readiness Made Easy: Gr. 5
© 2008 by Greenes, Findell & Cavanagh, Scholastic Teaching Resources
Ima Thinker
I’ll start with that
fact that gives
the cost of Holly’s
racquet.
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