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Check Your Work
Always check your work. Answer choices often include common mistakes.
Now that we've solved the problem, let's check our work. In a real test, you would finish all the problems and then check your work.
When you check your work, start by rereading the problem.
Kelly picked 7 pears. Noah picked 5 pears. How many more pears did Kelly pick than Noah?
The words how many more that tell you to subtract.
That's what we did!
