Question 3A: Huntington has a population of 483,493. Lufkin has 345,876 more people than Huntington. Zavalla has 279,426 less people than Lufkin. What is the total population of all three cities? Draw a strip diagram & equation.
1,862,805
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Question 3B: Huntington was 483,493. Lufkin was 345,876 more people than Huntington. Zavalla was 279,426 less people than Lufkin. Round to the nearest hundred thousand to check the reasonableness of Zavalla.
830,000 - 280,000 = 550,000
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Question 3C: Record each city’s population in numbers, in words, and in expanded form.
Huntington: (4x100,000) + (8x10,000) + (3x1,000) + (4x100) + (9x10) + (3x1) Four hundred eighty three thousand four hundred ninety three
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Question 3D: 483,493 and 549,943 Compare the population of Huntington and Zavalla using >, <, or =
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Question 3E: John lives in Diboll, which has a population of 48,821. He says that Huntington is about 10 times as large as Diboll's population. Explain John’s thinking.
The 8 in Huntington is in the 10,000's place. The 8 in Diboll is in the 1,000's place.