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At Cedar Park, the Prairie Path hiking trail is 1 mile long. The Valley View hiking trail is 6 times as long as the Prairie Path hiking trail.

How many miles long is the Valley View hiking trail?

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Carlos ran an experiment with bean plants. He gave one plant less light and one plant more light. The plant that got less light grew 2 inches. The plant that got more light grew 3 times as tall as the plant that got less light.

How many inches did the plant that got more light grow?

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Start by listing the information given in the problem:

The plant that got less light grew 2 inches.
The plant that got more light grew 3 times as tall as the plant that got less light.

To find how many inches the plant that got more light grew, you should use multiplication.

This equation models the problem:

3	×	2	=	?

3 times as tall		Height of the plant that got less light		Height of the plant that got more light

To find the unknown number, use a multiplication fact.

So, the plant that got more light grew 6

inches.

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Lesson: Multiplication tables

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