The tail of Lee's dog is 15 centimeters long. If the tail of Kit's dog is 9 centimeters long, how much longer is the tail of Lee's dog than the tail of Kit's dog?
1 Answer
Aug 20, 2017
It is 6 cm longer.
Explanation:
Since this is a word problem, we can substitute some more math-friendly words in the place of the original question's words.
Given: Lee's dog's tail is 15 cm long.
Kit's dog's tail is 9 cm long.
Find: The difference between the length of Lee's dog's tail and Kit's dog's tail.
To find the difference, we use subtraction.
Therefore, Lee's dog has a tail which is 6 centimeters longer than Kit's dog's tail.
