Word Problems 1
James bought a camera for 105 dollars and now he only has 86 dollars left. How much money did he have to start with?
What is 191 dollars
There are 26 children on the Ferris wheel, 48 children on the roller coaster, and 12 children on the merry-go round. How many children are on all three rides?
What is 86 children?
Barry has 787 baseball cards, 342 football cards, and 659 basketball cards. About how many sports cards does Barry have in all? Round to the nearest hundred.
How many actual cards are in Barry's collection?
1,800 sports cards
1,788 sports cards
In her garden, Jamie had 24 red roses and 32 white roses. She picked 12 roses. How many roses were left?
What is 44 roses?
Mary is 58 inches tall. Carrie is 12 inches shorter than Mary. Jane is 3 inches shorter than Carrie. How tall is Jane?
What is 43 inches?
There were 239 apples in the basket in the store. At the end of the day, they sold 49 apples. How many apples were left?
What is 90 more apples?
A high school near me had 1,312 students last year. This year it has 172 more students. How many students does the school have this year?
What is 1,484 students?
Chris saved $532 last week and he saved $421 this week. He said he saved $687. Is that reasonable? Explain.
No $500 + $400 = $900. $421 is not close to $900.
Ana is 12 years old. She is 5 years older than her sister. How old is her sister?
What is 7 years old?
There were 19 apples on a tree. Juan picked 3 apples. 5 apples fell to the ground. How many apples were left on the tree?
What is 11 apples?
The door to Sean's room is 129 inches high. In the morning he painted up to 84 inches. How many inches of the door's height were left without paint?
What is 45 inches?
The Morton Book Store sold 12,324 books in January, 17,743 books in February, and 23,489 books in March. What is the total number of books Morton Book Store sold during those three months?
What is 53,556 books?
Tony said that 6,234-1,326 = 4,808. Is that reasonable? Explain.
Yes it's reasonable because 6,000 - 1,000 = 5,000 and 4,808 is close to 5,000.
Rita had 68 star stickers. 15 were golden. 22 were silver stars. The rest were blue stars. How many blue stars did Rita have?
What is 31 stars?
Charles had 59 buttons. 12 buttons were large. 23 buttons were of medium size. There rest of the buttons were small. How many small buttons did Charles have?
What is 24 small buttons?
There are 158 students in Grade 2 and 173 students in Grade 3. How many students are there in Grade 2 and Grade 3?
What is 331 students?
Sylvia rode her bike 385 meters to the grocery store. She rode the same distance to get back home. How many meters did she ride in all?
What is 770 meters?
My dad put 4,672 miles on his work car in August, 2,238 miles in September, and 6,832 miles in October. About how many miles did he put on his car. Round to the nearest hundred.
How many actual miles did he put on his car?
What is 13,700 miles?
What is 13,792 miles?
Nancy bought 12 apples and 23 bananas. Altogether, how many pieces of fruit did she buy? 8 pieces of fruit were eaten. How many pieces of fruit are left?
What is 35 pieces of fruit and 27 pieces of fruit?
There were 32 children on the Ferris Wheel. 9 more children got on and then 12 more got on. How many children are on the Ferris Wheel now?
What is 53 children?
Andy had 530,000 points in Mine-Craft. Jake had 235,371 points. How many more points did Andy have?
294,628 points
Alaska's land area is 571,951 square miles. California's land area is 155, 959 square miles. How much bigger is Alaska's land area than California's land area?
What is 415,992 square miles?
Friday, 38,876 people came to White Sox Park. On Saturday, there were 21,432 people and on Sunday there were 17,497 people. About how many people came to White Sox Park during those three days? Round to the nearest thousand.
What is 77,000 people?
26 boys and 18 girls went swimming. 9 children who went swimming got a sunburn. How many children who went swimming did not get a sunburn?
What is 35 children?
Sara collected 63 stamps. She gave 26 stamps to her friend. How many stamps did she have left? Later, she bought 35 stamps. How many stamps does she have now?
What is 37 stamps and 72 stamps?