Mixed numbers + subtraction - practice problems - page 10 of 12
Number of problems found: 225
- A welder
A welder has two pieces of half-inch pipe, one of length 2 3/8 ft and another of length 3 7/8 ft. What is the total length of the two welded together? How much must be cut off if she needs a total length of 4 3/4 ft? - Mixed numbers
Rewrite mixed numbers so the fractions have the same denominator: 5 1/5 - 2 2/3 - Nathan
Nathan is playing a trivia game. Each correct answer is worth 2 ½ points, and each incorrect answer is worth -¼ points. If he gets 35 questions correct and 32 questions incorrect, how many points does he have? A. 87.5 B. 79.5 C. 75 D. 8 - Balloons 2
One balloon is 3 7/10 meters above the ground. A second balloon 2 3/5 meters higher. How far above the ground is the second balloon? Complete the addition equation and a related subtraction equation to model the problem. Use x to represent the height of t
- Volunteers
Volunteers helped clean up 8.2 kg of trash in one neighborhood and 11 1/2 kg in another. They sent 2 3/5 kg to be recycled and threw the rest away. How many kilograms of trash did they throw away? - Ulysses
Ulysses bought 6 1/2 kg of beef, 3 3/4 kg of pork, and 5 1/2 kg of chicken. If 1 kg of beef costs 400 pesos, 1 kg of pork costs 300 pesos, and 1 kg of chicken costs 170 pesos. How much change is left if he gave 5,000 pesos for his purchase? - Tommy
Tommy harvested 41.7639 kg of oranges, and Cadrick harvested 35 673/1000 kg of the same type of fruit. How many more kg of fruits did Tommy harvest than Cedrick? Round your answer to 3 decimal places. - Arelli
Arelli had 20 minutes to do a three-problem quiz. She spent 9 7/10 minutes on question A and 3 2/5 minutes on question B. How much time did she have left for question C? Solve on paper to find the answer as a fraction. - Peter's calculation
Peter wrote the following: 7 1/4 - 3 3/4 = 4 2/4 = 4 1/2 . Is Peter's calculation correct? Using words (math vocabulary) and numbers to explain why he is correct or incorrect.
- Seven up
Peter barman is making 8 gallons of Tropical trip punch. He has already poured in 1 3/4 gal pineapple juice and 2 1/2 gal orange juice. The only other ingredient is 7-Up. How much does 7-Up Peter need? - Submerging
Monika dove 9 meters below the ocean's surface. She then dove 13 meters deeper. Then she rose 19 and one-fourth meters. What was her position concerning the water's surface (the water surface = 0, minus values = above water level, plus = above water level - True or false?
Which of the following is true? A. Three and three ninths plus seven and six-elevenths equal ten and eighty-seven ninety ninths. B. two and three-eighths plus six and four-fifths equals eight and twelve fortieth C. three and three sevenths plus four and t - Simplify 3
Simplify mixed numerals expression: 8 1/4- 3 2/5 - (2 1/3 - 1/4) Show your solution. - A man 3
A man buys a box of fruits containing 286 fruits. Out of these, 1/2 are apples, and the rest are pears. 4/13 of the pears are rotten. He sells the good pears at rupees 4 1/11 each. How much money does he receive on selling the good pears?
- Three friends
Chad and his two friends are picking blueberries at a local farm. Chad picked 2 1/2 pounds of blueberries, and one of his friends picked 1 3/8 pounds. If they ended up with a total of 5 1/4 pounds, how many pounds did Chad's other friend pick? Express you - Bathroom 4
Dolor puts 3 1/2 pails of water into a water container in the bathroom daily. Her daughter, Lei, uses 2 1/4 pails of water daily when taking a bath. If the water container had 5 5/8 pails of water at the start, how much water would be left in it after fiv - Farmer 5
Farmer Joe ordered three bags of soil last month. Each bag weighed 4 ⅖ kilograms. He used the first bag in a week. At the end of this month, there were 2 ¾ kilograms of soil left in the second bag and ⅞ kilograms of soil left in the third bag. How much so - Emily
Emily had 20 minutes to do a three-problem quiz. She spent 11 3/4 minutes on question A and 5 1/2 minutes on question B. How much time did she have left for question C? - Stock market 2
For the week of July 22, the forecaster recorded the following day-to-day changes in the stock market of a specific stock: -2 on Monday, +4 Tuesday; -8 Wednesday; + 2 1/2 Thursday, - 3 1/4 Friday. The stock began the week at 78 points. How many points did
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