Subtraction practice problems - page 6 of 80
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- Yesterday 8
Yesterday, Lou earned $12.76 selling lemonade and $4.87 selling ice pops at his stand. Today, he bought 2 pizzas for $5.00 each. How much money does he have left?
- Add, sub and div
Find the value of (52 - 14 - 8 - 7)/(15 - 4 * 2) Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
- Tim had
Tim had $360. He spent 1/4 on CD's and 2/3 of the remainder on snacks. What was left in his piggy bank?
- Kamau
Kamau had 3/4 of a cake. He gave 1/3 to his wife and 1/6 to his father. What fraction of the cake remained?
- Mrs. Susan 2
Mrs. Susan received a shipment of 60 novelty baseball caps. Of the caps, 1/3 had bug antennae, 2/5 had moose antlers, and the rest had plastic propellers. How many of the caps had plastic propellers?
- Steve 3
Steve is making breakfast. The recipes call for 7/8 cup of milk for grits and 3/4 cup for biscuits. He only has 2 cups of milk. Does he have enough to make his breakfast?
- The sum 42
The sum of two fractions is 6 5/6. If the bigger fraction is subtracted by 3/4, the difference is 4 7/12. What is the smaller fraction?
- Cheesecakes
In a survey, 50% of people preferred fruit cake, 15% preferred sponge cake, and the remainder preferred cheesecake. What percentage of people liked cheesecake the best?
- Complex expr with fractions
Find 1½ of 16 ÷2⅓+(2¼ of ⅑). Use the correct order of operations. The order is PEMDAS: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division (from left to right), addition, and Subtraction (from left to right).
- Seeds 6
In his garden, Thomas plants carrot seeds 1/4 inch deep and bean seeds 7/8 inch deep. What expression can be used to find how much deeper Trey planted the bean seeds than the carrot seeds?
- Mendy
Mendy needs 3 1/2 cups of sugar to make a cake. She only has 1 5/8 cups. How many more cups of sugar does Mendy need?
- Ted spent
Ted spent $20.75 on lunch and $56.23 on gas. If he started with $100, how much does he have now?
- Mario 3
Mario renames the mixed numbers to fractions greater than 1 to find 4 and 1/2 - 2 and 2/3. Which fractions should Mario use to find the difference?
- Linda
Linda gave her sister 2/5 of her money, spent 1/3, and saved the remainder. If Linda saved $28.00, how much money did she have at first?
- You have 5
You have $9.33. You buy 7 items that cost $0.87 each. How much money do you have left?
- Sportwear
A sporting goods manufacturer has 11 2/9 yd of fabric to make soccer shorts. Each pair of soccer shorts requires 3/8 yd of fabric. How many pairs of soccer shorts can be made? How much material will be left over?
- The painter
Alex had 5/6 liter of white paint. He used 1/8 of it to paint the walls and 2/5 of the remaining to paint the fence. How much paint is left?
- The room temperature
At 5 AM, the room temperature was 20 degrees Celsius. After 6 hours, the reading was 28 degrees Celsius. The temperature rose by how many degrees?
- Library and gym
In a town, 7/8 of the population has a library card, and 3/4 has a gym membership. What fraction of the population has either a library card or a gym membership?
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