Addition With Regrouping
48 brownies were in the fridge. When the café was closed, only 9 brownies were left. How many brownies were sold?
48 – 9 = 39
39 brownies were sold.
A waitress was pushing a cart with 18 cups of hot coffee and 13 glasses of iced coffee. She served 5 cups of hot coffee and spilled 2 glasses of iced coffee. How many cups of hot coffee were left on the cart?
18 – 5 = 13
13 cups of hot coffee were left on the cart.
There were 80 mugs for hot drinks and 60 glasses for cold drinks. One day, a waiter dropped a tray of dishes and broke 15 mugs and 6 glasses. How many glasses were left?
60 – 6 = 54
54 glasses were left.
The manager ordered 30 new mugs and 15 new glasses. But 6 mugs were chipped, and 5 mugs came in with the wrong color. So, the manager returned the broken mugs and wrong mugs. How many new mugs were there?
30 – 6 – 5 = 19
There were 19 new mugs.
There were 39 boxes of tuna fish sandwiches. There were 5 boxes less of the egg salad sandwiches. If 6 boxes of the egg salad sandwiches turned bad, how many boxes of egg salad were left?
39 – 5 – 6 = 28
There were 28 boxes of egg salad sandwiches left.