TASK 5
Blue Mountain Trail Clean-up
TASK SUMMARY: Students will divide with unit
fractions and whole numbers.
Information: The students of Olympus Academy are helping with the Blue
Mountain Trail Clean-up during the summer. Ava, Jayden, Edwina, Lexi,
Luis, and Trina are on one team. They are helping to clean up a hiking trail
that is 10 miles long. Each person is in charge of an equal part of the trail.
a. What fraction of the trail is Ava in charge of? Write your answer in
simplest form.
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b. Write a division equation you could use to nd a, the number of
miles of trail that Jayden is in charge of. What is the value of a?
Show your work. Write your answer in simplest form.
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MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASKS 16 Christie Wainwright