Add and subtract fractions word problems

Heidi grew her hair out for many years. Her hair was 1\dfrac{1}{3} of a meter long. She donated her hair by cutting off \dfrac{5}{6} of a meter.

How long is Heidi’s hair now?

Jennifer used \dfrac{2}{7} of a meter of ribbon to make bows for her cousins. Now, she has \dfrac{10}{21} of a meter of ribbon left.

How much ribbon did Jennifer start with?

Johnny and Elizabeth were playing a video game and trying to get all of the treasure boxes. Johnny got 2\dfrac{1}{3} treasure boxes. Elizabeth got 1\dfrac{5}{9} treasure boxes.

Together, Johnny and Elizabeth got how many treasure boxes?

Farmer George is painting 3 chicken coops. He started painting this morning. Now he only has 1\dfrac{3}{4} of a chicken coop left to paint this afternoon.

How many chicken coops did farmer George paint this morning?

The results of an election are shown in the table below.

What is the difference between the fractions of votes received by Dragovic and Johnson? 

Katie and Tyler are working at their lemonade stand. They have sold 2\dfrac{1}{2} pitchers of lemonade and now have \dfrac{1}{3} of a pitcher left to sell.

How many pitchers of lemonade did they start with?

Mrs. Alvarez asked her class how many hours of TV they watched per day (to the nearest half hour). The results are shown below.

What fraction of the students watch between 0 and 2 hours of TV a day?

Harry’s spell casting class lasts for 2\dfrac{5}{6} hours each day. Today, he has been in the class for 1\dfrac{2}{5} of an hour so far.

How much more time is left in the class?

Add.

5\dfrac{1}{3}+7\dfrac{1}{4}

Subtract.

7\dfrac{3}{5}-2\dfrac{3}{10}

Add.

\dfrac{2}{3}+2\dfrac{1}{6}

Add.

8\dfrac{1}{6}+\dfrac{3}{4}

Subtract.

8\dfrac{4}{5}-\dfrac{1}{2}

Add.

2\dfrac{2}{7}+4\dfrac{1}{2}

Subtract.

5\dfrac{5}{8}-3\dfrac{1}{3}

Add.

4\dfrac{1}{2}+1\dfrac{2}{5}

Subtract.

5\dfrac{2}{3}-\dfrac{1}{4}

Subtract.

4\dfrac{5}{6}-1\dfrac{2}{3}

Add.

3\dfrac{3}{5}+6\dfrac{3}{10}

Find the missing fraction.

?+\dfrac{1}{3}=\dfrac{3}{4}

Jerry played with 3 friends today, all at different times. He played with Tommy for 1\dfrac{7}{8} hours, then Nathan for 1\dfrac{3}{4} hours, then Chris for \dfrac{2}{3} hours.

How many hours did Jerry play with his 3 friends today? 

Amir is sorting his stamp collection. He made a chart of the fraction of stamps from each country in his collection.

\dfrac{7}{12} of Amir’s stamps are from either Morocco or Spain.

What fraction of Amir’s stamps are from Spain?

Heba ate \dfrac{1}{12} of a box of cereal. Now the box is \dfrac{3}{4} full.

What fraction of a full box there before Heba ate?

The first team member in a 3-person relay race must run 2\dfrac{1}{4} laps, the second team member must run 1\dfrac{1}{2} laps, and the third team member must run 3\dfrac{5}{8} laps.

How many laps in all must each team run?

Two lions, Fluffy and Fireball, met at the zoo.  Fluffy’s tail is 1\dfrac{1}{3} of a meter long. Firebal’s tail is 1\dfrac{1}{4} of a meter long.

How much longer is Fluffy’s tail than Fireball’s tail?l’s

Ahoy there, matey! Our pirate ship had \dfrac{5}{6} of a treasure chest full of gold. Then we plundered an enemy ship and took their \dfrac{3}{8} of a treasure chest full of gold.

how many treasure chests full of gold do we have now?

Jimmy is trying to dive down and touch the bottom of the pool. The table shows how far down he made it on each dive.

Jimmy’s second dive was deeper than his first dive by what fraction of the pool?

The partial table below shows the fraction of fish in kathy’s tank of different types.

What fraction of Kathy’s fish are either tetras or guppies?