Multiplicative Comparison Word Problems

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What is a multiplicative comparison?

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A multiplicative comparison is when we compare two quantities by showing how many times one quantity is as much as the other.

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If Frank spent 48 tickets on rides and spent 6 times as many on rides as on games, how many tickets did he spend on games?

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8 tickets

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How do you find out how many times more one number is than another?

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Divide the larger number by the smaller number.

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If there are 36 students and 9 adults, how many times more students are there than adults?

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4 times

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What is the formula to find the number of items in a multiplicative comparison?

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Number of items = (Number of items in the first group) x (Comparison factor)

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If my little brother has 10 red skittles and 2 green skittles, how many times as many red skittles does he have than green ones?

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5 times

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Wendy made 7 times as many shots as she missed. If she made 14 shots, how many did she miss?

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2 shots

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If a food truck sold 8 times as many hamburgers as hot dogs, and they sold 4 hot dogs, how many hamburgers did they sell?

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32 hamburgers

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What does it mean to say one quantity is '8 times' another?

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It means that the first quantity is 8 times larger than the second quantity.

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How can you set up a problem to find out how many more items one group has than another?

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Identify the two groups, find the difference between their quantities, and express it as a comparison.