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3. A recipe for a milkshake needs cups of ice cream and cups of strawberries, and cups of milk.  How many cups of ingredients do you need altogether to make the milkshake?

4. Gary is painting pieces of wood for a tree house.  The first board he painted blue was feet long.  The second board he painted red was feet long. How much longer is the blue board than the red one?

5. Explain the steps you would use to solve .  Be sure to include the correct answer.

6. Lucy was making a blanket and bought yards of fleece to make it.  When she was finished making the blanket she had yards of fleece left over.  She told her friend that she used yards of fleece to make the blanket.  Is Lucy correct? Explain.

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3. cups of ingredients to make the milkshake.

4. The blue board is feet longer than the red board.

5. The steps you would use to solve are listed below, but are not limited to,

• Subtract the fractions
• Subtract the whole numbers 10 – 4 =6
• Combine the whole number and fraction to get the answer

6. Lucy is not correct. 

Explanations may include, but not limited to:

• You need to subtract the amount of material that she had left from the original amount of fleece.  That will tell you what she used.
• (yards she started with)(yards she had left over)= (yards that she used on the blanket)
• Lucy said she used yards, but she actually used yards.
• Lucy used more fleece than what she actually said.