Subtracting Mixed Numbers
One weekend Brianna poured 51_ 1/12 buckets of water in a plastic pool, and one weekend later she had to pour 31_ 1/12 buckets of water in her plastic pool. How much more water did she have to pour in the plastic pool the first weekend?
20_ 1/12 buckets
Tom completed 2_ 1/4 worksheets on Wednesday and 1_ 1/3 on Thursday. How much more worksheets did he do on Wednesday?
11/12 worksheets
Ava works for 4_ 7/8 hours on Tuesday and 2_ 1/3 hours on Thursday. How many hours does she work this week?
8_ 5/8 hours
Kaitlin used 4_ 2/6 gallons of water to water her daisy's and 2_2/6 gallons of water to water rose's. How many gallons of water did she use in total?
6_2/3 gallons
I started painting my bedroom on Tuesday and I used 3_ 1/2 liters of paint. On Wednesday I used 2_ 1/4 liters of paint. How much paint did I use in all?
5_ 3/4 liters of paint
Ed walked 5_ 1/8 blocks to the library, and then 1_ 1/8 blocks to his friends house. How much more did Ed walk to the library than to his friends house?
4 blocks
Franklin is giving away boxes full of books. He started with 4_ 2/5 boxes and sold 3_ 3/4. How many boxes did he sell?
13/20 boxes
Sarah earned 5_ 1/4 dollar for doing chores and earns another 5_ 1/3 dollars for mowing the lawn. How much money did she earn in total?
$10_ 7/12
Andrew mailed a letter it traveled 15_ 3/6 miles on Monday and 10_ 1/3 on Tuesday. How many miles did the letter travel in total?
25_ 5/6 miles
A recipe calls for 2_ 2/4 cups of walnuts and 3_ 3/4 cups of pecans. How many cups of nuts do we need in total?
5_ 7/8 cups of nuts
There are 8_ 1/12 gallons of water in Philips fish tank. If you take out 3_ 1/6 gallons of water how much water would be left in the fish tank?
4_ 11/12 gallons of water
Riley ran 4_ 1/5 miles on Monday and 3_ 3/4 miles on Wednesday. How much more did she run on Monday than she did on Wednesday?
9/20 miles
Alex made 6_ 7/8 paper cranes and 4_ 2/4 paper airplanes. How many did she make in total?
11_ 3/8 paper figures
Devin read a book for 2_ 2/3 hours this week. He read for 3_ 4/5 hours the next week, how much did he read in both weeks?
6_ 7/15 hours
Lindsay"s bus ride is 12_ 3/5 miles and Mandy's is 14_ 1/5 miles. How much is the both of theirs together?
27_ 1/5 miles
Rosa has 8_ 3/8 cups of grape fruit juice and 6_ 3/8 cups of soda. How much more cups of grape fruit juice does Rosa have than soda.
2 cups
Steven has 7_ 1/4 pages of homework and already did 5_ 3/4 pages. How much does he have left?
1_ 1/2 pages
Kayla has 6_ 7/8 green markers and 4_2/4 blue markers. How many green and blue markers does she have in total?
11_ 3/8 markers
Two sides of a triangle measure to 5_ 1/2 cm and the other side measured to 3_ 3/8 cm . What is the perimeter of the triangle?
8_ 7/8 cm
A baker used 4_ 1/2 bags of flour to bake a cake and 3_ 3/5 bags to bake cookies. How much flour did the baker use in total?
8_ 1/10 bags of flour
Keith ate 1_ 5/8 of the pie and Beth ate 1_ 1/5 of the pie as well. How much of the pie is left?
17/40 of the pie
Lilly has 8_ 3/4 pounds of bananas, ans sells 2_ 1/4 pounds of the bananas. How many pounds of the bananas does she have left?
6_ 1/2 pounds
Michael bought 5_2/5 of carrots at the super market and 4_ 2/10 of corn. How much vegetables did he buy?
9_ 4/5 vegetables
Mary bought a jar full of buttons to sew on her jackets. 6_ 1/3 of them were blue and 2_ 1/3 were red. The rest were different shapes and sizes. How many red and blue buttons were there all together?
8_ 2/3 buttons
Tom bought 2_ 1/4 kilograms of bananas and 1_ 1/3 kilograms of grapes. How many kilograms of fruit did he buy in total?
3_ 7/12 kilograms