Addition & Subtraction
Sarah is baking a cake and cookies. She uses 1 ¼ cups of flour for the cake and 2 ½ cups of flour for the cookies. How much total flour does she use?
Sarah uses a total of 3 ¾ cups of flour.
Antonio has 6/8 of a pizza left over and two hungry friends. If Antonio and his friends evenly split the leftover pizza, what fraction of the pizza does each person get?
Each person gets 1/4 of the pizza.
Sarah has 3 ½ pounds of potting soil, and she uses ¾ of it for her indoor herb garden. How many pounds of potting soil did she use?
Sarah used 2 5/8 pounds of potting soil.
A local animal shelter has a variety of breeds. If 30% of the dogs are golden retrievers, 12% are huskies, and the rest are corgis, then what percentage of the dogs at the shelter are corgis?
58% of the dogs at the shelter are corgis.
Wiley reserved the last ⅖ of the strawberry shortcake for herself. Rosalie then stole ⅞ of Wiley’s reserved strawberry shortcake and ate it!! How much cake is left for Wiley?
1/20 of the total strawberry shortcake is left for Wiley.
Sarah Anne is baking cookies and the recipe calls for ⅔ cups of butter. She wants to make 3½ batches of cookies. In order to do this, how many cups of butter will Sarah Anne need?
Sarah Anne will need 2⅓ cups of butter to make 3½ batches of cookies.
⅓ of Anna’s fruit tart fell on the floor. Through tears, she split ½ of the leftover fruit tart into 3 equal parts for her friends, and then locked herself in her room and ate the other half. How much of the fruit tart did each friend get?
Each friend got 1/9 of the fruit tart.
Mr Azat bought a shirt at a local shop. The original cost was $50.00; however when Mr Azat bought it, it had a 30% increase on the price. After the increase was applied and 6% sales tax was added. How much did Mr Azat spend on the shirt?
Mr. Azat spent $68.90 on the shirt.
If Alex has 5 ⅓ feet of rope and cuts off 2 ⅙ feet of rope to tie a package. How many feet of rope are left?
Alex has 3 ⅙ feet of rope left.
Maya has 3 ½ pans of cornbread for a class party. She wants to divide the cornbread into equal servings that are each ¼ of a whole pan. How many servings of cornbread does she have?
Maya has 14 servings of cornbread.
Gabe has the day off today, so he has 8 hours of free time. He wants to spend 1/9 of the time playing video games, then to spend double the time playing video games on watching TV, and then to spend ⅓ of the leftover time eating tiramisu. How many minutes will be spent on eating tiramisu?
Gabe will spend 106 minutes and 40 seconds (106 2/3) eating tiramisu.
Lily-Rose was feeling a little hungry, so she went to her local donut shop and bought 25% of the supply of blueberry cake donuts. Blueberry cake donuts make up ⅔ of all donuts at the shop. What percentage of all donuts at the shop did she buy?
Lily-Rose bought 16.67% (or 1/6) of all the donuts at the shop.
Paulene has 10 cookies, and her brother Paul has 14 cookies. Paul steals ⅓ of Paulene’s cookies, and then Paulene steals ⅞ of Paul’s cookies. How many cookies does Paulene have?
Paulene has 21 5/6 cookies
Julian starts with a ribbon that is 18 ¾ feet long. He cuts off ⅖ of the total length to tie a large package. Then, he divides the remaining piece of ribbon into smaller, equal-sized strips that are each 1 ⅛ feet long. How many full small strips of ribbon does Julian end up with?
Julian ends up with 10 full small strips of ribbon.
Briley has an ultra-rare-super-secret card collection with 24 cards in it. One day, Merlin tells her that if she gives him half of the rarest cards in her collection, he will double her remaining cards. If Briley’s rarest cards make up ⅙ of her collection, how many cards will she end up with?
Briley will end up with 44 cards.
Poor Cassandra was lured into a local boutique promoting a 43% discount on all graphic t-shirts in the store. Little did she know, those graphic t-shirts were drop shipped and then up-charged heavily. She decides on getting a t-shirt that is $19.99 before the discount. After the discount is applied and then a 4% sales tax, how much will she pay for the t-shirt?
Cassandra will pay $11.85 for the t-shirt.
Derryl ate ⅓ of the pizza, Mae ate ½ of what Derryl ate, and Carolann ate the rest. How much of the pizza did Carolann eat?
Carolann ate 1/2 of the pizza
In a community garden, ⅗ of the entire plot is planted with vegetables. Of that vegetable section, ⅚ is dedicated specifically to root vegetables. If the root vegetable section covers an area of exactly 7 ⅓ square yards, what is the total area, in square yards, of the entire garden plot?
The total area of the entire garden plot is 14 2/3 square yards.
Julianne has $138 in her checking account and $500 in her savings account. One day, two of her evil enemies steal 1/3 and 2/9 of her checking account. So, she takes 70% out of her savings account and adds it to the remaining amount in her checking account. Then, she spends 50% of the amount in her checking account to “deal with” her evil enemies. How much does she have left in her checking account?
Julianne has $205.67 left in her checking account.
A large library has a collection of books where ⅜ of the total books are non-fiction. Of the remaining fiction books, 40% are novels. Of the remaining fiction books that are not novels, ⅖ are short story collections, and the rest are poetry books. If there are exactly 126 poetry books in the library, how many total books does the library hold?
The library holds a total of 560 books.