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Monday, February 18, 2008

Subtraction - Elementary School Math

There are a total of 72 cars parked in the used parking lot 8 of them are blue. How many cars are not blue?

a. 58
b. 62
c. 64
d. 68

Answer: 64 (c )

This is a subtraction problem. The student must subtract the 8 blue cars from the total 72 cars in order to come up with what is remaining. The remaining number will be the number of cars that are not blue. Here is the step:

72 - 8 = 64

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