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1.04 Real-world problems with rational numbers

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A small business experiences a loss of $\$800$$800 each month for $4$4 consecutive months.

What was the overall change in the business’s earnings during this time?

Easy
1 min

Mario is making a salad and a pasta dish. He uses $\frac{1}{3}$13 cup of olive oil for the salad dressing and $\frac{1}{8}$18 cup for the pasta sauce. How much olive oil does he use in total?

Easy
2 min

Skye has $5\frac{1}{4}$514 pounds of clay. She uses $\frac{3}{4}$34 of a pound for each sculpture. How many sculptures can Skye create with her clay?

Medium
1 min

The following table gives us the temperature in different locations:

Hard
2 min
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7.CE.1

The student will estimate, solve, and justify solutions to multistep contextual problems involving operations with rational numbers.

7.CE.1a

Estimate, solve, and justify solutions to contextual problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with rational numbers expressed as integers, fractions (proper or improper), mixed numbers, and decimals. Fractions may be positive or negative. Decimals may be positive or negative and are limited to the thousandths place.

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