Add or Subtract? 2nd Grade Word Problems

Ashley baked 44 fruit cupcakes.

Clara baked 77 more fruit cupcakes than Ashley.

How many cupcakes did Clara bake?

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.5

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

A refrigerator costs 20 less than a television set.

The television set costs 100.

How much does the refrigerator cost?

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.5

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Mía has 322 action figures.

She has 99 fewer action figures than Adam.

How many action figures does Adam have?

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CCSS.2.NBT.A.1

CCSS.2.NBT.A.3

CCSS.2.NBT.B.5

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Blake has 365 game cards.

Blake has 10 more game cards than Carla.

How many game cards does Carla have?

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.5

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Levi compares his test scores for English and Science.

He scored 15 marks more for Science than English.

Levi scored 87 marks for Science.

What was his score for English?

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.5

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Dylan collected 456 seashells.

Taylor collected 690 seashells.

How many more seashells did Taylor collect than Dylan?

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CCSS.2.NBT.A.1

CCSS.2.NBT.A.4

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

There are grey and black cars in the parking lot.

There are 695 grey cars.

There are 169 more grey cars than black cars.

How many black cars are there in the parking lot?

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CCSS.2.NBT.A.1

CCSS.2.NBT.B.5

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.2.OA.A.1

There are 542 adults on board a cruise ship.

There are 486 children on board the same cruise ship.

How many fewer children than adults are there?

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.5

CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.2.OA.A.1