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General Information

Related Standards: MAFS.5.NF.2.5
Reporting Category: Number and Operations - Fractions
Type: MC: Multiple Choice
Difficulty: N/A
Question:

Two newspapers are comparing sales from last year.

  • The Post sold 34, 859 copies.
  • The Tribune sold one-and-a-half times as many copies as the Post.

Which expression describes the number of newspapers the Tribune sold?

 

Answer Options:

A. begin mathsize 12px style 34 comma 859 space cross times space 1 1 half end style

B. begin mathsize 12px style 34 comma 859 divided by 1 1 half end style

C. begin mathsize 12px style 34 comma 859 space cross times 1 half end style

D. begin mathsize 12px style 34 comma 859 space divided by space 1 half end style


Aligned Standards

Code Description
MAFS.5.NF.2.5: Interpret multiplication as scaling (resizing), by:
  1. Comparing the size of a product to the size of one factor on the basis of the size of the other factor, without performing the indicated multiplication.
  2. Explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number (recognizing multiplication by whole numbers greater than 1 as a familiar case); explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number; and relating the principle of fraction equivalence a/b = (n×a)/(n×b) to the effect of multiplying a/b by 1.


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