IXL | Write numerical expressions for word problems

Read the story.

Barry has 2 bottles of Freshly Soft laundry detergent. Each bottle has 128 ounces of detergent. He uses 4 ounces of detergent for each load of laundry.

Which expression tells you the number of loads of laundry that Barry can do?

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128

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128

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Read the story.

A box of fruit snacks has 7 strawberry-flavored snack packs and 8 raspberry-flavored snack packs. A shelf at the grocery store holds 30 boxes of fruit snacks.

Which expression tells you the total number of snack packs on the shelf?

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solution

A box of fruit snacks has 7 strawberry-flavored snack packs and 8 raspberry-flavored snack packs. Add to find the total number of snack packs in a box.

7	+	8

Strawberry snack packs		Raspberry snack packs

A shelf at the grocery store holds 30 of these boxes of fruit snacks. Multiply to find the total number of snack packs on the shelf.

( 7 + 8 )	⋅	30

Snack packs in a box		Boxes

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