Sophia is planting a vegetable garden. She has planted a row of tomatoes

that is 12 feet in length. She also wants to plant 3 feet of cucumbers, but she

has no place to plant them unless she digs up some of the tomatoes. If she

digs up some tomatoes to plant the cucumbers, she will have _ feet of

tomatoes remaining,

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Alexandria Newton

Mathematics

23 March, 14:52

Sophia is planting a vegetable garden. She has planted a row of tomatoes

that is 12 feet in length. She also wants to plant 3 feet of cucumbers, but she

has no place to plant them unless she digs up some of the tomatoes. If she

digs up some tomatoes to plant the cucumbers, she will have _ feet of

tomatoes remaining,

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Answers (2)

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Journey Harding · Answer 1

She will have 9ft of tomatoes remaining

Step-by-step explanation:

It's a subtraction problem.

Subtract the 12ft of tomatoes you have from the 3 ft of cucumbers.

12-3 = 9

Hopkins · Answer 2

She will have 9 feet of tomatoes left.

Step-by-step explanation:

12ft - 3ft = 9ft