3.6 Worksheet

solve each problem using the two given facts. If a chart is given, first copy
and complete the chart to help you solve the problem'
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Find the number of full 8 hour shifts that Maria worked last month.
(l) She worked twice as many 6 hour shifts as 8 hour shifts'
(2) She worked a total of 280 hours.
of round-trip cornrnuter rail tickets sold.
Thkry dmes as many round-trip tickets as l2-ride tickets were sold.
2. Find the number
(l)
(2) The total number of tickets sold represented 1440 rides.
Rides per ticket
x Number of tickes sold: Total rides
3. Find the total weight of the boxes of pecans in a shipment of 3 Ib boxes of
pecans and 2 lb boxes of walnuts'
(l) There werc 24 fewer 2 Ib boxes of walnuts than 3 lb boxes of pecans.
(2) The total weight of the shipment was 4621b.
Weight per box x Number of boxes = Total Weight
Pecans
Walnuts
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A roll of carpet 9 ft wide is 30 ft longer than a roll of carpet 15 ft wide.
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Both rolls have the same area. Make a sketch of the unrolled carpets
frnd the dimensions of each.
Leo's garden, which is 6 m wide, has the same area as Jen's garden'
which is 8 m wide. Find the lengths of the two rectangular gardens if
Leo's garden is 3 m longer than Jen's garden' First make a sketch'
In March, Rodney sold twice as many cars as Greg' ln April, Rodney sold
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5 fewer cars than he did in March, while Greg sold 3 more cars than
many
how
April,
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number
did in March. If they sold the same
cars did each sell in March?
In one basketball game Maria scored three times as many points as Holly'
In the next game, Maria scored 7 fewer points than she did in the first
game'whileHollyscoredgmorepointsthanshedidinthefirstgame'If
ihey scored the same number of points in the second game' how many
points did each score in the frst game?
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