Add and Subtract Fractions Word Problems

Jayden bought a 5 cup bag of pecans. If she uses 2⅔ cups to bake cookies, how many cups of pecans will be left in the bag?

• 7 2/3

• 3 2/3

• 2 1/3

• 3 1/3

Lawton has a piece of wood that is 7 ¼ inches long. he cut the piece of wood so that it was 3 ⅝ inches long. how much wood did he have left?

• 4 3/8

• 10 7/8

• 4 5/8

• 3 5/8

Alisha kept track of the growth of a plant. At the beginning of one week, her plant was 1 ⅞ inches tall. The next week, the plant was 2 ¾ inches tall. How many inches did Alisha’s plant grow over the week?

• 1/2

• 7/8

• 1 1/2

• 4 5/8

Snow fell in Monroe twice in one day. The town received 3/8 inch of snow in the morning and another 1/2 inch of snow in the afternoon. How many total inches of snow fell in Monroe on that day?

• 3 1/8

• 17 4/10

• 5/8

• 7/8

Applying Operations on Fractions in Word Problems: If John ate 3/8 of a pizza and Mary ate 1/4 of the same pizza, what fraction of the pizza was eaten in total?

• 3/4

• 5/8

• 2/8

• 1/2

Rachel had 2 ⅛ bag of popcorn. Ethan had 3 ⅔ bag of popcorn. How much popcorn did they have altogether?

• 5 19/24

• 3/24

• 5 3/11

• 3/11

Sarah made two types of cookies . Her sugar container has 5 cups of sugar in it. She used 1 ⅔ cup of sugar for one recipe and 1/4 cup of sugar for the other . How much sugar will she have left in her container after she made the cookies?

• 1 11/12

• 11/12

• 3 1/12

• 4 1/12

Keesha bought 1 ¾ yards of fabric to make a shirt. she used 1 ¼ yards. How much fabric did she have left?

• 4/4

• 1/4

• 2/4

• 1 2/4

Shane needs 10 ⅗ hours to complete a project.

If he already worked on the project for 5 ¾ hours, how many more hours does he need to complete the project?

• 15 6/9

• 5 6/20

• 4 3/20

• 4 17/20

Blaine mowed ⅓ acres of the yard and stopped to drink a glass of water. He then mowed another 2 ⅙ acres of the yard before running out of gas. He had to mow 4 acres. How much of the yard does he still need to mow?

Write your answer in its simplest form.

• 1 1/2

• 2 3/6

• 2 1/2

• 4 1/2