Christmas Addition and Subtraction of Fractions

Santa likes to stay fit and ran 2 1/2 miles on Christmas Eve and 5 1/3 miles on the day after Christmas. How many miles did he run in all?

• 7 1/2 miles

• 7 5/6 miles

• 8 miles

• 7 2/3 miles

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Mrs. Claus baked 12 1/4 pounds of fudge on a Monday. On Tuesday, she baked 7 4/8 pounds of fudge. How many pounds of fudge did she make in two days?

• 19 1/2 pounds

• 19 3/4 pounds

• 19 7/8 pounds

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The Master Head Elf had 50 1/2 cookies to share with his eld workers, but Santa's dog ate 12 2/3 of the cookies before he was stopped. How many cookies were left?

• 38 2/6 cookies

• 37 1/2 cookies

• 37 4/6 cookies

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Frosty ate 8/12 of a snow cone and Olivia ate 4/6 of the same snow cone. How much of the snow cone was left?

• 1/6

• none

• 2/12

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The red elves worked 7 4/8 hours on Friday and 3 1/4 hours on Saturday. How many hours did they work in all?

• 10 3/4 hours

• 10 1/2 hours

• 11 hours

• none of the above

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An elf named Jolly made 3 6/7 of the presents. Holly, another elf made another 6 1/14 of the presents. What fraction of the presents did Jolly and Holly make in all?

• 10

• 10 12/14

• 9 13/14

• 9 13/7

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Santa has an average of 112 elves in his workshop in 2017 and each year an average of 73 1/3 retired after the Christmas season. How many elves were left help in 2018?

• an average of 39 1/3 elves were left

• an average of 185 1/3 elves were left

• an average of 38 2/3 elves were left

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Frosty made 42 1/2 snowballs and the Abominable Snow monster broke 12 1/5 of the snowballs. How many snowballs were left?

• 31 1/2 snowballs

• 30 2/5 snowballs

• 30 3/10 snowballs

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Mrs. Claus had 3 giant cookies. She ate 1 1/3 of the cookies on Monday. On Tuesday, she ate 2/6 of the cookies. How mauch did she have left on Wednesday

• 1 2/3 cookies left

• 1 1/3 cookies left

• 1 3/6 cookies left

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To get to the reindeer barn, Santa had to walk 3 1/4 miles. After that he walked to the toy shop which was another 2 2/3 miles. How much did he walk in all to get to theses two places?

• 6 miles

• 5 11/12 miles

• none of the answers are correct

• 5 10/12 miles

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