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title: "Pancake Breakfast"
description: "Math story: Papa Rooster is making breakfast. He makes 10 pancakes. The chick eats 3 pancakes, and Papa eats 4 pancakes. How many pancakes are left?"
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duration: "PT36S"
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# Pancake Breakfast

Math story 32 · Subtraction · Grade 1 · 0:36

## Read the story

Papa Rooster is making breakfast.

He makes 10 pancakes.

The chick eats 3 pancakes, and Papa eats 4 pancakes.

**How many pancakes are left?**

## Answer and working

There are 3 pancakes left! Because 10 minus 3 is 7, and 7 minus 4 is 3.

`10 − 3 − 4 = 3`