A dog had a litter of nine puppies. 3 were male. How many were female?
6 females
There has already been 2 days of Hanukkah. There are a total of 8 days. How many days are left?
6 days
Cookie Monster ate 20 cookies. Elmo at 3 less cookies than Cookie Monster. How many cookies did Elmo eater?
17 cookies
DJ had 12 pencils. Ari had 7 fewer pencils than DJ. How many pencils did Ari have?
5 pencils.
There are 7 djembes in the music room. There are also 13 xylophones. How many instruments in all?
20 instruments
A zoo has 240 species of birds on display. They have 30 less species of fish. How many species of birds and fish do they have on display in all?
450 birds and fish
Santa Claus visited 351 homes in Pepperminttown. He visited 129 more homes in Ornamentville. How many homes did he visit in all?
831 homes in all
Cookie Monster was selling cookies. He sold 520 boxes on Sesame Street. Then he sold 120 fewer boxes in Brooklyn. How many boxes did he sell in Brooklyn?
400 boxes
The lunch workers made 620 lunches. There were 98 left over after the kids went through the lunch lines. How many lunches were sold?
522 lunches
Li'l Nas X wrote 259 lines of lyrics for his last album. Ice Cube wrote 232 more lines of lyrics than L'il Nas X. How many lines did they write in all?
750 lines of lyrics total
Draw a bar model to represent the problem.
1,803 elephants
It is estimated that up to 2,000,000 African Americans celebrate Kwanzaa each year. Another estimate puts that number at 1,500,000 fewer. What is the lower estimated number of African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa?
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500,000 African Americans
Cookie Monster is the lead cookie maker at the Sesame Cookie Factory. In his first year, he sold, 7,452 boxes of cookies. He sold 2,529 more the second year. How many boxes of cookies did he sell in all?
Draw a bar model to represent the problem.
17,433 boxes of cookies
There are 2,007 students at Cooper High School. There are 1,023 fewer students at Robbinsdale Middle School. How many students are at both the middle and high school?
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2,991 students total
Aesop Rock, a local Minnesotan Hip Hop Artist, used 7,879 unique words in his first 35,000 published lyrics. This was 4,393 more unique words than Lil Wayne used in his first 35,000 published lyrics. How many words did Lil Wayne use? How many did they use in all?
Lil Wayne: 3,486 unique words
11,365 words in all