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The tree is Miss Dudgeon's backyard has 912 red leaves and 172 green leaves. How many leaves are there in all?
1,084 leaves
The town of West Liberty had 237 Trick-or-Treaters last Halloween. They plan to have 178 more this Halloween. How many Trick-or-Treaters will they have this Halloween?
415 Trick-or-Treaters
152 years
Jackie's family had 675 pieces of candy put out for Trick-or-Treaters last Halloween. This year, they put out 585 more pieces. How many pieces did they have this year?
1,260 pieces of candy
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The scarecrow saw 312 crows in the cornfield on Monday and 127 crows on Tuesday. How many crows did he see all together?
439 crows
There were 117 people dressed up as Robin for Halloween and 190 people dressed as Batman for Halloween. How many more Batmans were there than Robins?
73 Batmans
West Liberty University has 2,225 students and Bethany College has 806 students. How many more students does West Liberty University have?
1,419 students
If the grocery store 1,978 candy apple last year and they sold 634 less candy apple this year. How many candy apple did they sell this year?
1,344 candy apples
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190 apples
1,237 people visited a haunted house last Halloween. This Halloween, 1,917 people visited that same haunted house. How many people visited the haunted house over the past 2 Halloweens?
3,154 people
West Liberty University has 2,225 students and Bethany College has 806 students. How many more students would the two colleges have combined?
3,031 students
Ms. Bell made 420 popcorn balls to hand out to the trick-or-treaters. After she handed them out she 107 popcorn balls left. How many did she hand out?
313 popcorn balls
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If a corn maze used 19,712 cornstalks to create the maze last year and 27,375 cornstalks this year to create their maze, how many more cornstalks did they use all together over the 2 years.
47,087 corn stalks
If all of the houses in West Liberty combined gave out 105,604 pieces of candy last halloween and they gave out 1,675 more pieces this Halloween, how many pieces of candy did they give out this Halloween?
107,279 pieces of candy
There were 1,710,902 deer in West Virginia last fall. This fall, there are 1,900,608. How many deer were there combined over the past 2 years?
3,611,510 deer
Hendrix took a school of which Halloween treat each student liked better, popcorn balls or candy corn. 198 students liked popcorn balls and 79 liked candy corn. How many more students liked popcorn balls?
119 students
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DAILY DOUBLE: A pumpkin farmer got 197,819 pumpkins from his pick on his first farm and 18,912 pumpkins from his pick on his second farm. How many pumpkins did he get all together? How many more pumpkins did he get from his larger pumpkin pick?
216,731 pumpkins all together
178,907 pumpkins from his larger pumpkin pick
If all of the houses in Wheeling combined gave out 3,672,986 pieces of candy last halloween and they gave out 123,907 less this Halloween, how many pieces of candy did they give out this Halloween?
3,549,079 pieces of candy
West Virginia has 134,612,789 apple trees throughout the state. If someone were to cut down 12,607,905 trees, how many would be left?
122,004,884 apple trees
Miss Bates makes 550 cupcakes for the school's Halloween party. She plans on 397 people coming to the party. If everyone comes, how many cupcakes will she have left?
153 cupcakes