Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Iqra has 630 marbles and her mom gives her 255 more. How many marbles does Iqra have altogether?

• 1,000

• 1,100

• 885

• 2,050

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

Suzanne found 245 yellow flowers and 162 white flowers. How many flowers did she find in all?

• 450

• 407

• 502

• 388

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

Miles has 66 chickens and Isabella has 28 chickens. How many more chickens does Mile have than Isabella?

• 45

• 32

• 38

• 40

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CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Halie has 55 seashells and she gave 16 away. How many seashells does Halie have left?

• 39

• 25

• 32

• 30

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CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Jesse and his brother were playing video games. Jesse scored 1,254 points. His brother scored 2,015 more points than Jesse. How many points did they score combined?

• 3,211

• 4,513

• 4,523

• 3,269

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

Sierra had 136 trading cards. She gave away 15 to each of her 3 friends. Which expression shows how many cards Sierra has left?

• 136 - (15 x 3)

• 136 + (15 x 3)

• (136 - 15) x 3

• (136 + 15) x 3

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CCSS.5.OA.A.1

CCSS.5.OA.A.2

Norah had 125 pennies. She used 35 pennies to buy a tootsie roll at the gas station and gave half of what was left to her sister. Which equation can be used to find p, the number of pennies Norah has now?

• p= 125+ 35 x 2

• p= (125+35) ÷ 2

• p= (125-35) ÷ 2

• p= (125-35) x 2

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Johnsonville Elementary school was having a canned food drive. Fifth grade students brought in a total of 13,928 cans. Third grade students brought in 2,074 cans more than the fifth grade students. How many cans did the third grade students bring in?

• 13,928 + 2,074

• 2,074 - 13,928

• 2,074 x 13,928

• 13,928 - 2,074

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

The store has 150 baseballs. At the end of the month, there were 81 baseballs left. How many baseballs did the store sell?

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CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Ben had 5 sheets of stickers. Each sheet had 12 stickers on it. Ben gave 23 stickers to his sister. He gave 16 stickers to his brother. Which equation can be used to determine s, how many stickers Ben has left?

• (5x12)-23-16=s

• (12+5)-23-16=s

• (5x12)-23+16=s

• (12x5)+23-16=s

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8