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F. Operations With Rational Numbers 03

The document contains a series of word problems involving the multiplication and division of rational numbers, including scenarios related to animals, cooking, recycling, and sales. It also includes exercises for evaluating numerical expressions with positive and negative decimals. Each problem requires answers in specific formats, such as fractions, mixed numbers, or decimals.

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F. Operations With Rational Numbers 03

The document contains a series of word problems involving the multiplication and division of rational numbers, including scenarios related to animals, cooking, recycling, and sales. It also includes exercises for evaluating numerical expressions with positive and negative decimals. Each problem requires answers in specific formats, such as fractions, mixed numbers, or decimals.

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F.

6 Multiply and divide rational numbers: word problems


1. The elephants at the zoo eat 4 1/3 buckets of bananas each day.
The zookeeper bought 8 2/3 buckets of bananas.
How many days will the bananas last?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.


days

2. A cookie factory uses 2 bags of flour in each batch of cookies.


The factory used 7 1/3 bags of flour yesterday.
How many batches of cookies did the factory make?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.


batches

3. Rebecca collected 10 bins of glass bottles to recycle.


Darell collected 8 2/3 times as many bins as Rebecca.
How many bins of bottles did Darell collect?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.


bins

4. A cookie factory puts 9 2/5 barrels of flour into each batch of cookies.
How much flour will the factory use for 6 batches?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.


barrels

5. Stacy bought 5 rolls of paper towels. She got 84 metres of paper towels in all.
How many metres of paper towels were on each roll?

Write your answer as a decimal.


metres
6. Fernando's Taffy Shop made 61 kilograms of taffy in 5 days.
How much taffy, on average, did the shop make per day?

Write your answer as a decimal.


kilograms

7. Sam made strawberry jam and raspberry jam.


He made enough strawberry jam to fill 3 3/8 jars.
If he made 3 5/6 times as much raspberry jam as strawberry jam,
how many jars will the raspberry jam fill?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.


jars

8. Each piece of cardboard is 0.6 centimetres thick.


If Roxanne stacks 6 pieces of cardboard on top of one another,
how thick will the stack be?

centimetres

9. Erica performed a chemistry experiment in which she divided 3/4 of a box of baking
soda evenly among 6 bottles. She then added vinegar and water to each bottle to make
them bubble up like volcanoes. How much baking soda did she put in each bottle?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.


boxes

10. Last week, Deb's Fruit Stand sold 5 5/6 boxes of peaches. Down the road, Brenda's
Fruit Stand sold 1/2 as many boxes of peaches as Deb's did. How many boxes of
peaches did Brenda's Fruit Stand sell?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.


boxes
F.7 Evaluate numerical expressions involving positive and negative decimals

Evaluate all of this expression.


Write your answer as an integer or a decimal. Do not round.
1. 0.4  0.5  5

2. 0.9  0.4  0.8

3. 0.3  0.1  0.2

4. 0.2  0.8  5 0.4

5. 0.1  0.2  0.8  0.3

6. 5  2(0.6  0.1)

7. 0.7  7   0.8  0.5

8. 0.2  (1  0.5  0.1)

9. (0.9  0.4  0.5)  7

10. 0.7  0.9   7  0.1

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