The Langstons planted a big garden with flowers About what f

The Langstons planted a big garden with flowers About what fraction of the garden is planted with each type of flower? How much more of the garden is planted with lilies than daisies? The Langstons replace the daisies and irises with lilies. What fraction of the garden is planted with lilies? Write a number sentence. In the following sentence, the name of each type of flower represents the fraction of the garden in which the flower is planted. Marigolds - Begonias= Petunias + Tulips Use fractions to explain whether the sentence is correct or incorrect. Look at the original garden plan. Find three different combinations of plots that total the fraction of the garden planted with impatiens. Write a number sentence for each combination. A local magazine sells space for ads. It charges advertisers according to the fraction of a page purchased. Advertisers purchase 1/8 and 1/16 of page 20. What fraction of the page is used for ads? What fraction of page 20 remains available for other uses? Explain The Cool Sub Shop is having its grand opening. The owner buys three 1/4 page ads, four 1/8 page ads, and ten 1/16 page ads. What is the total amount of ad space that the owner buys? A local concert prometer purchases 2 3/4 pages of ads. When one of the concerts is canceled, the prometer cancels 1 5/8 pages of ads. How much advertising space is the concert promoter actually using? Rico and his friend eat some lasagna. Rico eats 1/9 of the lasagna, and his friend eats 1/18 of the lasagna. How much of the lasagna is left? Sonia finds a 3/4 full small bag of chips. She eats the rest of the chips in the bag. Then she opens another small bag of chips. Sonia eats 1/8 of those chips. What fraction of a small bag of chips does Sonia eat altogether? For Exercises 33-36, find each sum or difference. 1 2/5+1 1/3 2 1/8+3 3/4+1 1/2 11 1/2-2 2/3 8 11/12 - 2 3/4 For Exercises 37-38, determine which sum or difference is greater. Show your work, 2/3+5/6 or 3/4 + 4/5 7/6-2/3or3/5-5/10

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