Question

The Comfy Couch Furniture store purchased 3 pages to advertise upcoming sales for the summer. When they did not receive a shipment as planned, they were not ready for their Fourth of July sale and had to cancel the 1 pages they had purchased for advertising the sale. How many pages of advertising did the store use? Write a number sentence to show your reasoning

Answer 1

So they purchased 3 pages.
+3
no ready had to cancel 1 page
-1
How many pages?
+3-1=2

2 pages..

Answer 2

I think the number sentence would be
+3-1=2

Answer 3

im sorry i forgot to add the fractions :P

Answer 4

There are fractions in this!?

Answer 5

The Comfy Couch Furniture store purchased
5
1
3 pages to advertise upcoming sales for
the summer. When they did not receive a shipment as planned, they were not ready for
their Fourth of July sale and had to cancel
10
7
1 pages they had purchased for
advertising the sale. How many pages of advertising did the store use? Write a number
sentence to show your reasoning

Answer 6

3 1/5

Answer 7

1 7/10

Answer 8

So wouldn't that be the same format of what I did? Just have to change some numbers. Now that I have an example up there..what do you think the number sentence would be?

Answer 9

what im confused about is what to do. Im pretty sure I subtract, but when I try to, I cant subtract 7 from 1