Liam bought 5 7/8 of steak. he used 2 1/16 pounds of steak for a cookout. which is the best estimate of how many pounds of steak liam has left?
a. about 3 1/2 pounds.
b. about 4 pounds
c. about 4 1/2 pounds
d. about 8 pounds
martin won first place in the 100-meter dash with a time of 14 23/100 seconds. samuel came in second place with a time of 15 7/10 seconds. by how many hundredths of a second did martin beat samuel?
a. 16/100 second
b. 30/100 second
c. 1 7/100 seconds
d. 1 47/100 seconds
brady used 2/3 gallon of yellow paint and 1/4 gallon of white pain to paint his dresser. how many gallons of paint did brady use?
a. 3/7 gallon
b. 3/4 gallon
c 5/6 gallon
d 11/12 gallon
david practices piano for 1 1/3 hours on monday and 3 1/2 hours on tuesday. how much longer does he practice piano on tuesday than on monday?
a. 1 1/5 hours
b. 2 1/6 hours
c. 2 2/5 hours
d. 2 5/6 hours
a trail has three sections that are 4 7/8 miles, 3 3/4 miles, and 5 1/8 miles long. ava wrote this expression to show the total distance that she hiked.
(4 7/8+3 3/4)+5 1/8=13 3/4
which shows another way to write the expression using only the commutative property of addition?
a. 4 7/8 + (3 3/4 + 5 1/8)
b. (5 1/8 + 4 7/8) + 3 3/4
c. (3 3/4+ 4 7/8) + 5 1/8
d. (4+3+5) +(7/8+3/4+1/8)