Gr 3 C4 Task Raking Leaves

This is a multi-part task focused on multiplication and division. This is remixable.

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Libby is earning some spending money by raking leaves for her grandma. She gets paid $7 a bag for each trash bag that she fills with leaves.

1.     Use counters or square tiles to model how many bags she would need to fill if she wanted to earn more than $30. What is the smallest number of bags she would need to fill?

2.     Find at least 3 ways she could make more than $30 by raking leaves. For each way write an equation.

3.     If her grandma has 8 trash bags, what is the most money she could make?

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