Subtraction - practice for 12 year olds - page 3 of 37
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- 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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
- The high 2
The high for Wednesday was −10°, and the low was −23°. How many degrees did the temperature drop on Wednesday? - Fraction subtraction
Find the difference. Reduce the answer to the simplest form: 1.) ¾ - 1/8 = 2.) ½ - 1/8 = 3.) ½ - 1/6 = 4.) 7/8 - ¾ = 5.) 1/5 - 1/10 - Subtract 19
Subtract as indicated. 11/10 - (- 2/5) - A book 4
A book has 280 pages. I read 2/7 of the book yesterday, while I read 1/4 of it today. How many pages did I read in 2 days? - Rice cooking
Aunt had 1 3/4 kg of rice, then Aunt bought another 2 1/2 kg of rice, cooked 0.2 kg, calculate the remaining rice Aunt now.
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Subtraction practice problems. Maths practice for 12-year-olds.