Subtraction
A submarine goes 20 feet below the surface. It goes back up 5 feet, and then goes down an additional 70 feet. The surface is equal to 0. What is a equation to represent this?
0-20+5-70
Sarah and her friends are sharing 3 and 1/2 pizzas equally. If there are 8 friends in total, how much pizza will each friend get?
Answer: Each friend will get 7/16 of a pizza.
A pizzeria offers a pizza with 3/8 pepperoni and 1/4 sausage. What fraction of the pizza is covered with toppings?
Answer: 5/8 of the pizza is covered with toppings.
10/4 times 4/12 (Answer in decimal form)
0.833...
9/4 plus -1/2 times 1/8
The answer is 2.1875
Mrs. Vincent has to calculate the average of scores on her math test. 3 people got 100's, 5 people got 93's, 6 people got an 83, and 3 people got a 73. The goal average is 93. How many points off from the goal is her average?
The average grade is 87. She is 6 points off from the goal average.
A rectangular garden is divided into sections. If the garden is 12 and 3/4 feet long and each section is 2 and 1/2 feet long, how many sections can fit in the garden?
Answer: 5 and 1/8 sections can fit in the garden.
A car traveled 1 and 3/4 hours at a speed of 55 miles per hour and then 2 and 1/3 hours at a speed of 65 miles per hour. How far did the car travel in total?
Answer: The car traveled a total of 192 and 7/12 miles.
-23 times 9/3
-69
1.416...
Joe is in charge of the prize money for jeopardy players. A wrong answer is -500 dollars. A question appears on the board. "What is -23 - 40?" Amy says -17, Tom says -63, and Larry says 52. Who is right? What is the answer?
Tom is correct. The answer is -63.
A car travels 255 miles on 15 gallons of gas. If the car's gas tank can hold 20 gallons, how far can the car travel on a full tank?
The car can travel 340 miles on a full tank.
Sarah wants to save money to buy a bicycle that costs $150. She saved 1/4 of the amount. How much more money does she need to save?
Answer: She needs to save $112.50 more
Alex drove his car for 2/5 of the total distance to his friend's house. If the total distance is 10 miles, how far has Alex driven?
4 Miles
34/3 times 23/12 plus 20/32
22.34722...
James' job is to weigh apples for Walmart. He has 10 apples. Each apple weighs an equal amount. If the combined weight is 3 1/3 lbs, what is the weight of each individual apple?
Each apple weighs 1/3 lb.
A library has 48 and 3/4 feet of bookshelf space. If each bookshelf is 2 and 1/4 feet wide, how many bookshelves are there?
There are 21 and 3/16 bookshelves.
A cell phone plan costs $30 per month plus 1.5 cents per text message. If Jane sent 200 text messages this month, how much is her total bill?
Her total bill is $33
Jasmine is making a recipe that requires 3443 cup of flour. She only has half of the flour she needs. How much flour does she have? Express your answer as a fraction."
3/8
43/10 times 3/5 plus 47/10
7.28
John has 11,632 dollars in his savings account. At the store he buys a dishwasher and a stove. John spent 6,236 dollars at the store. If the dishwasher costs 1,343, how much was the stove? How much money does he have left?
The stove costs 4893 dollars. He has 5396 dollars left.
Emily is painting a fence that is 18 and 1/2 feet long. If she can paint 2 and 3/4 feet of fence in an hour, how many hours will it take her to finish painting the whole fence?
Answer: It will take Emily 6 and 11/16 hours to finish painting the whole fence.
Emily is planting flowers and vegetables in her garden. She planted 3/5 of the garden with flowers and the rest with vegetables. If the garden is 25 square feet in total, how much did she plant with vegetables?
Answer: She planted 10 square feet with vegetables
Molly and Laundry are counting marbles. Laundry says there are 4 times as much blue marbles as green marbles. Molly says that red marbles are 2 times as much as the blue ones. If there are 5/2 green marbles, how many red marbles are there?
There are 20 red marbles.
-94/4 times -23/8
67.5625