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.

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 poundB. 3 3/4 poundsC. 1 1/2 poundsD. 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 kittensB. the two kittens that weigh 1 3/4 pounds and the kitten that weighs 2 poundsC. the three kittens that weigh 1 1/2 poundsD. one kitten that weighs 1 5/8 pounds, one that weighs 2 1/8 pounds, and one that weighs 1 3/8 pounds

13.

Two puppies each ate 1/2 cup of food. Leo says that together they ate 2/4 cup. Is Leo right? Explain how you know.