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- 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? - Temp dropping
The temperature in Lincoln was 7 degrees Celsius at midday. It fell by 9 degrees by 3A. What was the temperature at M3am? - Cody states
Cody states that 1/4 + ( - 6/8 ) = 1 whole, while Eddie says that it is - 1/2. Who is correct? Justify your answer and explain your thinking.
- Subtract 20
Subtract and add the following mixed numbers as given: A=2 1/6 - 1 1/2 + 4 2/3. B=4 1/4 - 1 1/3 + 1 1/12. C= 2 1/4 -1 1/5 + 3 3/20. - Plus minus mixed numbers
If possible, perform the indicated operation/s and reduce your answer to the lowest term. 1. 3 1/8 + 3/5= 2. 6 3/7 + 4/9= 3. 9 6/13 + 1 3/7= 4. 10 4/5 - 2/3= 5. 13 6/7 - 3/11= - Rachel 3
Rachel has 1 cup of cinnamon. She makes cinnamon rolls from a recipe that calls for 1/8 of a cup of cinnamon per batch. If she makes 3 batches, how much cinnamon will she have left? - You have 4
You have eaten ⅔ of a pizza. Your friend eats what is left. How much of the original pizza is left? - A student 6
A student read 2/7 of a novel on the first day. On the second day, he read 42 pages of the book. He read half of the book at the end of the third day. The whole book was read in these three days. What fraction can he read of the book on the second day? Ho
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