Use fraction circle pieces or another method to solve the problems in Questions 7–10.

  1. Jackie rides her bicycle of a mile from home to the park. She rides another of a mile to the grocery store.
    1. Is the distance more or less than mile?
    2. How far does she ride in all?
  2. Luis spent of his weekly allowance going to the movies. He spent another of it on a birthday present for his dad. How much of his total allowance did he spend?
  3. When playing Fraction Fill 1, the circles look like this:
    1. Shannon spins a “” on the spinner. She adds the entire to the fourths circle. How much of the circle will be covered?
    2. Jacob spins a “.” He adds the entire to the eighths circle. How much of the circle will be covered?
  4. Mrs. Macintosh starts an apple orchard on her land by planting apple trees covering of an acre. In the next two years she plants trees on of an acre and then of an acre.
    1. Has she planted closer to acre or 1 whole acre?
    2. How large is her orchard after the third year?