McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 4, Chapter 7

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Destination Division

Road Trip
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Your after-school band club is planning a road trip for spring vacation. You will be performing at six different vacation spots. You and the other band members are going to plan how far to travel each day!

• Click the red signs. Learn about each place.
• Read the number of miles between the places.
• Use the distances to solve problems. Be sure to check your answers.
• Stop clicking when you reach Six Flags. This is the last stop on your trip!

1. Complete the table.
   
   

   Leg of Trip	Distance (miles)
   Oak Bluffs, MA to Saratoga Springs, NY	270 miles

   
   
   
2. You want to make one stop on the trip from Oak Bluffs to Saratoga Springs. Your trip will be in 2 parts. You'll drive halfway on one day, and halfway on the next day. How many miles will you travel each day?
   
                              miles
   
   
   
3. You want to take 4 days to travel from Saratoga Springs to Catskill Mountains. You will travel the same distance each day. How many miles will you travel each day?
   
                              miles
   
   
   
4. You want to stop twice on the trip from the Catskill Mountains to Coney Island. The trip will be divided into 3 equal parts. How many miles will each part be?
   
                              miles
   
   
   
5. The trip from Coney Island to the Great Smokey Mountains is long. You want to divide the trip into 8 equal parts. How many miles will each part be?
   
                              miles
   
   
   
6. You want to divide the trip from the Great Smokey Mountains to Opryland into 7 equal parts. You friend wants to divide the trip into 9 equal parts. How many miles will each part be with your plan? How many miles will each part be with your friend's plan?
   
   Your plan:                            miles
   
   Your friend's plan:                            miles
   
   
   
7. You want to take 7 days to travel from Opryland to Six Flags. You will travel the same distance each day. About how many miles will you travel each day?
   
                              miles
   
   
   

Math at Home

Today I took an online trip across the United States and learned about attractions and the distances between them. If I wanted to make one stop between Saratoga Springs and the Catskill Mountains, I would divide the 140 miles into                            equal parts. For each part, I would travel                            miles.

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