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Addition & Subtraction
Addition & Subtraction
For Halloween Dave got 364 ounces of candy and Carol got 128 ounces of candy. How many more ounces of candy did Dave get than Carol?
236 more ounces.
There are forty students in a class. If the teacher put them into groups with eight students in each group, how many groups would she have?
40÷8=5
Bianca had 28 math problems and 34 science problems for homework. If she finished 18 of the problems at school, how many problems did she have to do for homework?
(28+34)-18=44 problems
Robin uploaded 21 pictures from her phone and 14 from her camera to Facebook. If she sorted the pics into 5 different albums with the same amount of pics in each album, how many pictures were in each of the albums
(21+14)÷5 = 7 pictures in each album
Lana and her mom were picking carrots from their garden. Lana picked 37 and her mother picked 43. If only 28 of the carrots were good, how many bad carrots did they have?
(37+43)-28= 52 bad carrots
Paul had $287. Later he sold some of his old toys and got another $134. How much money does he have total?
$421
At a school fundraiser a student sold nine boxes of candy with each box having three pieces inside of it. How many pieces of candy did he sell total?
9x3=27
Jerry had 367 dollars. For his birthday he got 196 more dollars but spent 227 on a new game. How much money does he have now?
(367+196)-227= 336 dollars
While shopping for music online, Vanessa bought 8 country albums and 2 pop albums. Each album came with a lyric sheet and had 7 songs. How many songs did Vanessa buy total?
(8+2)x7= 70 songs
Lana bought 3 new chairs and 3 new tables for her house. If she spent 9 minutes on each piece furniture putting it together, how many minutes did it take her to finish?
(3+3)x9= 54 minutes
There were 500 people on the train. After the first stop there were 284 people left. How many people got off?
216 people got off.
Mike has to sell thirty-two chocolate bars to get a prize. If each box contains eight chocolate bars, how many boxes does he need to sell?
32÷8=4
Amy was playing a video game and had 33 lives. In a hard part of the game she lost 17 lives. If she got 39 more lives in the next level, how many lives would she have?
(33-17)+39= 55 lives
Carol's team won their baseball game and scored 10 points total. If Carol scored 6 of the points and everyone else scored 2 points each, how many players were on her team?
(22-6)÷2 = 8 players.
While playing at the arcade, Paul won 55 tickets playing 'whack a mole' and 9 tickets playing 'skee ball'. If he was trying to buy candy that cost 8 tickets a piece, how many could he buy?
(55+9)÷8 = 8 pieces of candy
At the arcade Billy had won 645 tickets. Later he won 177 more tickets. How many tickets did Billy have total?
822 tickets
A chef can cook seven meals in a minute. How many meals could he cook in seven minutes?
7x7=49
At the fair there were 117 people in line for the bumper cars. If 29 of them got tired of waiting and left and 13 more got in line, how many people would be in line?
(117-29)+13= 101
A painter needed to paint 13 rooms in a building. Each room takes 6 hours to paint. If he already painted 4 rooms, how much longer will he take to paint the rest?
(13-4)x6 = 54 hours
A magician was selling magic card decks for 8 dollars each. If he started with 10 decks and by the end of the day he had 3 left, how much money did he earn?
(10-3) x 8 = $24
For lunch the cafeteria had 824 chicken nuggets. They only gave out 467. How many chicken nuggets do they have left?
357 chicken nuggets are left.
At a school fundraiser a student sold 40 boxes of candy with each box having 6 pieces inside of it. How many pieces of candy did he sell total?
40x6= 240
While playing his favorite video game Billy scored 879 points. If he had scored 224 points in round 1 and 361 in round 2, how many points did he score in round 3?
879-(224+361)= 294 points in round 3.
Oliver is at the library helping put away books. There are 67 books to put away total but a librarian takes 40 of them and leaves Oliver with the rest. If he can fit 9 books on a shelf, how many shelves will he need?
(67-40) ÷ 9 = 3 shelves
A waiter had 55 customers in his section. If 31 of them left and the rest of his tables had 4 people at each table, how many tables did he have?
(55-31)÷4 = 6 tables.