Question:

Angie bought 5 meters of white paper. She used m of white paper to cover her notebooks and the rest for her prodject in H.E. What part of the paper was left?

What is asked?

• What part of the paper was left?

What are the given?

• 5 and

What operation will be used?

• Subtraction

What is the number sentence?

What is the final answer?

Solution:

➢Convert any mixed numbers to fractions.

➢Then your initial equation becomes

➢Applying the fractions formula for subtraction,

➢Simplifying 9/8, the answer is