Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Haley picked 28 carrots from her garden. If she threw out 11 of them and then picked 9 more the next day, how many carrots would she have total?

• 39

• 20

• 26

• 48

There 3,420 students at Brandon Elementary School.  1,911 students are girls.  How many are boys?

• 5,331

• 1,609

• 1,509

• 1,599

Mrs. Cascio has 9,123 sharpened pencils. She breaks 7,654 pencils. How many sharpened pencils does she have left?

• 1,469 pencils

• 1,579 pencils

• 2,531 pencils

• 16,777 pencils

Lucas has $52,019 in the bank. He withdraws (takes out) $14,368. How much money does he have in the bank now?

• $32,751

• $66,387

• $37,651

• $37,647

A new hp computer that Mrs. Freeman likes costs $1,275. A new apple computer costs $1,648. How much more does the apple computer cost? 

• $473

• $433

• $373

• $333

Mrs. Smith made 5,842 customer calls in one year. The following year she made 10,362 customer calls. How many more customer calls did she make in the second year than in the first?

• 4,520 calls

• 5,520 calls

•  16,204 calls

• 14,520 calls

In 2015, there were 549,080 people that visited the Jackson Zoo.  In 2014, there were 368,492 people that visited the Zoo.  How many more people visited the zoo in 2015 than in 2014?

• 180,588 people

• 917,572 people

• 229,349 people

• 181,499

The zoo has two new baby elephant. The younger baby elephant is a boy. The older baby elephant is a girl. The girl elephant weighs 1,625 lbs. The boy elephant weighs about 2,580 lbs. How much do the two elephants weigh in all?

• 1,105 lbs

• 3,155 lbs 

• 1,385 lbs

• 4,205 lbs

Mrs. Carr wanted to save $250,000 to buy a new house.  So far, she has saved $159,500.  How much money does she have left to save to buy her new house?

• $91,500

• $90,500

• $100,000

• $92,500

Mario picked 5 mushrooms and Luigi picked 2 mushrooms each day. If they did that for 5 days how much mushrooms would they have all together?

• 35

• 7

• 12

• 20