Abaker buys a 5lb bag of suger. she uses 1 and 2/3 lb to make muffins and 2 and 3/4 lb to make a cake. how much suger does she have left?

7/12 lbs

A baker buys a 5 lb bag of sugar. She uses 1 2/3 lb to make some muffins and 2 3/4 lb to make a cake. How much sugar does she have left?

There are lbs sugar left.

Given:

Total sugar = 5 lbs

She uses:

for muffin

for a cake

Question:

How much sugar does she have left?

Math word problem

Additional that have sum of 10

Mixed fraction

Keyword: mixed fraction, decimal numbers, subtraction decimal number, convert fraction to decimal

no

step-by-step explanation:

2-7=-5

7-2=5

when you combing like terms for ech expression, 5 and -5. these numbers are not equal to each other.