One Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

The bakery has 381 chocolate cupcakes and 346 vanilla cupcakes. How many total cupcakes does the bakery have?

• 727 cupcakes

• 725 cupcakes

• 720 cupcakes

• 729 cupcakes

Oliver made 263 baskets at basketball practice last week. He made 312 baskets at practice this week. How many total baskets did Oliver make?

• 565 baskets

• 555 baskets

• 585 baskets

• 575 baskets

Gary wants to buy a new video game system that costs $395. He has $318. How much more money does Gary need?

• $57

• $67

• $77

• $87

Andrew needs his farm to grow 98 pumpkins this year. So farm the farm has grown 72 pumpkins. How many more pumpkins need to grow? 

• 98

• 26

• 170

• 72

Ayden wants to buy a new video game system that costs $395. He has $318. How much more money does Ayden need?

• $57

• $67

• $77

• $87

The theater needs to sell 100 tickets to its show. They have sold 65 so far. How many more do they need to sell?

• 45

• 35

• 25

• 55

A library has 738 books. If 89 books are checked out, how many books are left in the library?

• 649

• 827

• 729

• 647

Brigit has a piece of rope. She ties 18 more meters of rope to her rope. Now the rope is 27 meters long. How long was the rope to begin with?

Which equation can you use to find out how long the rope was in the beginning.

• 18m + 27m = ?

• ? + 18m = 27m

• 27m + 18m = ?

• 18m + 27m+ ? = ?

Sam bought 43 apples and some oranges. He bought 65 pieces of fruit in all. How many oranges did he buy?

• 22

• 108

• 5

• 27

Benny had twenty two peaches left at his roadside fruit stand. He went to the orchard and picked more peaches to stock up the stand. There are now sixty five peaches at the stand, how many did he pick?

• 43

• 44

• 87

• 53