Name Lesson 3.1 Estimate with 1-Digit Divisors Estimate the quotient. 1. 2ͤෆ 624 2. 6ͤෆ 534 3. 7ͤෆ 2,429 4. 8ͤෆ 3,008 5. 1,734 Ϭ 6 6. 224 Ϭ 7 7. 328 Ϭ 4 8. 2,331 Ϭ 9 9. 2,892 Ϭ 6 10. 4,168 Ϭ 8 11. 541 Ϭ 7 12. 263 Ϭ 5 Problem Solving and Test Prep 13. A shipment of motorcycles weighs 14. Another shipment of motorcycles weighs 2,776 pounds. The shipment included 8 identical motorcycles. About how much did each motorcycle weigh? 2,079 pounds. This shipment included 7 mountain bikes
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The exploitation of animals for the benefit of human well being has always been an area of controversy in the eyes of the greater human population. This film focuses its attention primarily on the illegal poaching and selling of the ivory of elephants and horns of rhinos in South Africa and Kenya that leads to the purchasing of these products in Vietnam and China. These are animals that were once abundant in these areas, but in the recent years have been rapidly declining which has, as a result,
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s illicit poaching and wildlife trafficking trade has already reached critical mass; statistics corroborate that as high as 90% of the entire African elephant population has been utterly decimated within the last two decades. Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) serves as the archetype to African insurgency; the LRA is a group that for over twenty years, has successfully managed to elude the international and continental task force who are currently pursuing Kony and his
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Proboscidae, modern day elephants descended from Moeritheriums, which were the approximate size of current day pigs1. Over the course of 50 million years, evolutionary trends have resulted in elephants gradually increasing in size. Although there are only two species of elephants today, the Asian elephant or Elephas maximus and African elephant or Loxodonta africana, it is believed that a single ancestor, the Paleomastodon, evolved into an estimated 352 different elephant species2. Charles Darwin
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seek to determine why have school shootings become familiar media events. On April 20th 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two students of Columbine High School, equipped with multiple firearms including explosives went on a killing spree, before committing suicide (Kohn, 2001). Wounding more than 20 people and causing the death of 13 people, the Columbine High School shooting is considered as one of the most important school shootings in history. School shooting is the action in which ‘multiple
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name is the African Elephant, the scientific name is Loxodonta Africana, the phylum is Vertebrata, the class is Mammalia, the order is Proboscidea, and the family is Elephantidae. The Closest Relatives to the African Elephant are: the Asian Elephant, mammoths, primitive proboscidean (mastodons), sea cows, and hyraxes. Scientists believe that the African Elephant evolved from one of its closest relatives, the Sea Cow. The geographical location and range of the African elephant covers all of central
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Introduction: The flowers of India have been and still are popular with both tourists and natives of the country, due to a rich farming and gardening culture. Whether they are being used as decoration or as symbols in a ceremony, Indian flowers play a culturally significant role. Though some flowers typically associated with India may not actually have originated there, they might still be cultivated and propagated on the subcontinent and blend in well with the environment. Lotus:
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What are Asian Elephants? Asian Elephants are sociable animals they gather into a group of females of six to seven and are then led by the eldest female. They sometimes join other elephant herds, although it is very rare. The female elephant may give birth to a calf every 2.5 to 4 years. The calves start to become independent around the age of 4. About two thirds of the elephant’s day is spent eating grass, large portions of tree bark, roots, leaves, and small stems. They also really enjoy crops
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condition--without damaging them.Last spring, the team invited Minoru Miyashita, a professor of Kinki University who was once head of Osaka's Tennoji Zoo, to participate in the project.Miyashita asked zoos across the nation to donate elephant egg cells when their female elephants died.The team also
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Running head: ELEPHANTS Elephants Student’s name SPC 1608 Brigette Robinson Pensacola State College Introduction: I. According to worldelephantday.org, status an estimated 100 African Elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts. II. My name is __________, and I would like to talk to you today about different types of elephants. III. There are two different types of elephants, African and Asian. They both have similarities and differences
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