Liam bought \(5\frac{7}{8}\) pounds of steak. He used \(2\frac{1}{16}\) pounds of the steak for a cookout. For 3a–3c, fill in each blank.

a. Rounded to the closest benchmark, Liam bought about ______ pounds of steak.

b. Rounded to the closest benchmark, Liam used about ________ pounds of steak for the cookout.

c. Liam has about ________ pounds of steak remaining after the cookout.

Jackson picked apples for his family. He picked a total of \(6\frac{1}{2}\) pounds. He took \(2\frac{3}{4}\) pounds to his aunt and \(1\frac{5}{8}\) pounds to his mother. How many pounds of apples were left to give to his grandmother? Use the numbers and symbols to write an equation that represents the problem, then solve the equation. Symbols may be used more than once or not at all.

Weight of apples Jackson gave to his grandmother: ______ pounds

Write \(\frac{2}{5}\) and \(\frac{1}{3}\) as equivalent fractions using a common denominator.

_____ and ______

Jill brought \(2\frac{1}{3}\) boxes of carrot muffins for a bake sale. Mike brought \(1\frac{3}{4}\) boxes of apple muffins. What is the total number of boxes of muffins Jill and Mike brought to the bake sale?