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Animal Shelter Line Plots

Grade 4 line plots: read kitten weights in eighths of a pound, plot puppy food in fourths of a cup, and add and subtract fractions.

Grade 4MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4.MD.B.4

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students read a line plot of weights measured to the nearest 1/8 pound.
Students make a line plot of food amounts measured in fourths of a cup.
Students add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers using data from line plots.

How to use

Review how the tick marks split each pound into eighths before starting. Students make the puppy line plot in pencil first, then answer the next questions from their own plot.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.MD.B.4

Make a line plot of measurements in fractions of a unit and solve problems with it.

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Animal Shelter Line Plots

Use kitten weights and puppy food data to solve fraction problems.

Kitten Weights

The animal shelter weighed its kittens to the nearest 1/8 pound. Each X stands for one kitten. Use the line plot to answer each question.

How many kittens weigh less than 1 1/2 pounds?

kittens

Circle every weight that has no X marks above it.

1 1/8 lb1 1/4 lb1 7/8 lb2 lb2 1/4 lb1 5/8 lb

The vet wants every kitten to weigh at least 1 1/2 pounds. How much weight must the lightest kitten gain to reach 1 1/2 pounds?

pound

What is the total weight of all the kittens that weigh 1 3/8 pounds?

pounds

How much heavier is the kitten that weighs 2 1/8 pounds than the kitten that weighs 1 5/8 pounds?

A. 5/8 pound
B. 3 3/4 pounds
C. 1 1/2 pounds
D. 1/2 pound

Kittens that weigh 2 pounds or more are ready to be adopted.

How many kittens are ready to be adopted? kittens
What is the total weight of those kittens? pounds

Puppy Breakfast

Mr. Adeyemi measured how much food each of the 10 shelter puppies ate at breakfast, to the nearest 1/4 cup.

Food eaten (cups): 3/4, 1/2, 1, 3/4, 1 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1 1/2, 1, 3/4

Make a line plot of the puppy data. Label each tick mark in fourths of a cup. Then draw one X for each puppy.

Use your line plot.

How many puppies ate exactly 3/4 cup? puppies
How many puppies ate more than 1 cup? puppies

How many cups of food did the puppies that ate 3/4 cup eat in all?

cups

10.

How much more food did the puppy that ate the most eat than a puppy that ate the least?

cup

11.

The food bag held 10 cups of food before breakfast.

How many cups of food did all 10 puppies eat in all? cups
How many cups of food are left in the bag? cups

Shelter Problems

Use both sets of shelter data to solve these problems.

12.

Look back at the kitten line plot. A pet carrier can hold at most 5 pounds of kittens. Which group of kittens can ride in the carrier together?

A. the lightest kitten and the two heaviest kittens
B. the two kittens that weigh 1 3/4 pounds and the kitten that weighs 2 pounds
C. the three kittens that weigh 1 1/2 pounds
D. one kitten that weighs 1 5/8 pounds, one that weighs 2 1/8 pounds, and one that weighs 1 3/8 pounds