Tallahassee (Florida) has a population of 483,493. New York City (New York), has 345,876 more people than Tallahassee. Phoenix (Arizona) has 279,426 less people than New York City
What is the total population of all three cities? Draw a tape diagram to model the word problem. Then, solve the problem.
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Question 7
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Round to the nearest hundred thousand to check the reasonableness of your answer for the population of Phoenix, AZ. Is your answer reasonable?
Question 8
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Record each city’s population in numbers, in words, and in expanded form.
Tallahassee, FL
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New York City, NY
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Phoenix,AZ
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Question 9
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Compare the populations of Tallahassee and Phoenix (from problem #6) using >, <, or =.
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Question 10
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John lives in Seattle, WA, which has a population of 34,725. He says that New York's is about 10 times as large as Seattle’s population. Explain John’s thinking.