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MF.NS.1 Standard MF-001-A07-V01

Compare, order, and estimate whole numbers and decimals using place value and magnitude sense.

Judge a number against benchmarks

Problem

A large water bottle contains \(5.78~\text{liters}\). Is \(5.78\) closer to \(5.7~\text{liters}\) or \(5.8~\text{liters}\)?

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This is a distance-to-a-benchmark question. We’ll place the bottle amount between the two benchmarks, measure how far it is from each endpoint, and compare those two distances. The endpoint with the smaller gap is the closer benchmark.

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Four variants of this problem type
Curriculum context
Standard
MF.NS.1
Category
Number Sense
Domain
Place Value and Magnitude
Objective
Compare, order, and estimate whole numbers and decimals using place value and magnitude sense.
Problem type
Judge a number against benchmarks