Practice Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers

1. Kay sees a gorilla handprint at the zoo that is $16\frac{5}{10}cm$ wide. Her own hand is $5\frac{1}{10}cm$ wide.

   How much wider is the gorilla hand than Kay's hand?

2. Evan and two friends go to a farm to pick strawberries. Evan records the number of baskets of strawberries that each person picks in a table.

   Evan forgot to record how many strawberries he picked, but he knows that it was the same amount as Jerry and Ann combined.

   Record the number of baskets of strawberries that Evan picked in the table.

   Person	Number of baskets
   Evan	_______
   Jerry	$2\frac{1}{3}$
   Ann	$3\frac{1}{3}$

   
   

3. Mia starts with a piece of paper that is ‍6 cm long. She folds the paper into a dragon that is $2\frac{1}{2}cm$ long.

   How much longer was the original paper than the dragon?

4. Alicia hikes to see a waterfall. She records the weight of the items she put in her backpack in a table.

   Alicia's camera weighs $1\frac{3}{4}kg$ less than her lunch.

   Record the weight of Alicia's camera in the table.

Source: Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/imp-fractions-2/adding-and-subtracting-mixed-numbers-word-problems/e/add-and-subtract-mixed-numbers-word-problems--like-denominators-
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