Additive and Subtraction Comparison Problems
Sarah has 18 apples. Tom has 12 apples. How many more apples does Sarah have than Tom?
Answer: 6 apples
Ben has 4 marbles. Mia has 3 times as many marbles. How many marbles does Mia have?
Answer: 12 marbles
There are 20 apples. They are shared equally among 4 friends. How many apples does each friend get?
Answer: 5 apples
What is this sentence as an equation?
30 is 5 times as many as 6
30= 5x 6
Each box holds 6 pencils. A teacher buys 4 boxes. She gives 12 pencils to students. How many pencils does she still have?
12
A box has 45 pencils. A second box has 28 pencils. How many fewer pencils are in the second box?
Answer: 17 pencils
A box has 6 times as many pens as markers. The box has 42 pens.
6x m =42
M=7
A farmer has 56 eggs. He puts them into cartons of 8 eggs each. How many cartons can he fill?
Answer: 7 cartons
What is this sentence as an equation?
45 = 9 times as many as 5
45= 9x 5
There are 5 baskets. Each basket has 8 apples. The apples are shared equally among 10 students. How many apples does each student get?
4
The zoo has 72 birds and 55 reptiles. How many more birds than reptiles are at the zoo?
Answer: 17 animals
Jaime has 30 paper clips. Chris has 5 times as many paper clips as Jaime. How many paper clips, p, does Chris have?
Answer: 30 x5 = 150 paper clips
A bus carries 72 students. Each row seats 6 students. How many rows are there?
Answer: 12 rows
Turn this equation into a sentence. What is 36=9 x4 as a sentence
36 is 9 times as many as 4.
A farmer has 9 crates of oranges. Each crate has 25 oranges. He sells 75 oranges at the market. How many oranges does he have left?
150
Maria read 96 pages of her book, while John read 124 pages. How many fewer pages did Maria read?
Answer: 28 pages
A baker makes 18 cupcakes each day. After 12 days, how many cupcakes has he made in total?
Answer: 216 cupcakes
A store sold 144 candies. If each customer bought 12 candies, how many customers bought candy?
Answer: 12 customers
Turn this equation into a sentence. What is 81=9 x9 as a sentence
81 is 9 times as many as 9
A school bus has 18 rows of seats. Each row has 4 seats. After 52 students sit down, how many seats are still empty?
20