standard_description: Make formal geometric constructions with a variety of tools and methods (compass and straightedge, string, reflective devices, paper folding, dynamic geometric software, etc.). Copying a segment; copying an angle; bisecting a segment; bisecting an angle; constructing perpendicular lines, including the perpendicular bisector of a line segment; and constructing a line parallel to a given line through a point not on the line.
problem_activity: Problem 1
Solve. Show or explain your work.
$${2{5\over8}+4{2\over3}}$$
Problem 2
Sang needs
$$3\tfrac{1}{2}$$
feet of string to make a necklace and
$$2\tfrac{1}{4}$$
feet of string left. How much string, in feet, did Sang have before making the necklace?


aligns: no