Question

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,

Answer 1

She will have 9ft of tomatoes remaining

Explanation:

It's a subtraction problem.

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

12-3 = 9

Answer 2

She will have 9 feet of tomatoes left.

Explanation:

12ft - 3ft = 9ft