Word Problems: Subtraction

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Read each problem. Write a number sentence and solve.

1. Ms. Hua has 21 pigeons and 17 finches in her aviary.

How many more pigeons does she have?

3. Bahar has 53 cherry trees. 24 are saplings (young trees).

How many grown trees does Bahar have?

5. There were 67 kittens at the animal rescue shelter

on Friday. 42 found loving homes on Saturday.

How many kittens remain on Sunday?

6. I counted 27 butterﬂies in the garden yesterday.

Now I see only 14. How many ﬂew away?

4. Irena has 55 geese. 31 are ganders

(male geese). How many are female?

2. The meadow holds 70 sheep. 61 graze there.

How many spaces remain?

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Mark sold 14 pink cotton candies and 23 blue cotton candies.

How many cotton candies did he sell in total?

It was a hot day and many people bought ice cream

cones at the fair. Mark sold 18 vanilla flavored cones, 1

5 strawberry flavored cones, and 21 chocolate cones.

How many cones did he sell in total?

When Mark wasn’t busy helping customers, he gave

away balloons to visitors. Mark gave away 8 neon pink

balloons, 11 forest green ballons, 24 jumbo purple

balloons and 5 sky blue metallic balloons. How many

did he give away?

Mark had 57 fun pack tickets.

At the end of the day he only had 9.

How many fun packs did he sell ?

Carnival Count

Mark is working at the carnival fair today. Help him calcuate his totals by adding or subtracting.

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At the beginning of the day, Mark had 63

pretzels but by the end of the day he only had

18 pretzels. How many pretzels did he sell?

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Example:

There are 14 baby chicks in the hen house.

10 more baby chicks are born. How many

baby chicks are in the hen house now?

Sara has 15 goldfish. Aunt Trish gives her

16 more goldfish. How many goldfish does

Sara have now?

Will finds 48 seashells at the beach. Joy

finds 36 seashells. How many seashells do

they have total?

Dad plants 22 flowers in the yard.

Mom plants 15 more flowers. How

many flowers are in the yard now?

Lily has 30 pieces of candy. Rick has 27

pieces of candy. How many pieces of

candy do they have total?

Tim has 13 shiny rocks in his fish tank.

He places 18 more shiny rocks into the

tank.How many shiny rocks are in the fish

tank now?

Word Problems: Addition

Read each word problem below.

Write a number sentence and solve the problem.

14

10

24

+

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Subtraction Word Problems

Write and solve a subtraction equation for each problem.

Name

Date

1. Mrs. Rodriguez bought a nine-pack of chips. Her son

Joe and his friends ate four packs. How many are left? _____ – _____ = _____

2. To make dinner, Mrs. Rodriguez used eight of the

twelve potatoes in a bag. How many are left? _____ – _____ = _____

3. Pork chops were on sale, so Mrs. Rodriguez bought

seventeen. She froze nine for another day and

cooked the rest. How many pork chops did she cook? _____ – _____ = _____

4. Mrs. Rodriguez had sixteen apples. She used

nine to make a pie. How many apples are left? _____ – _____ = _____

5. e next morning, Mrs. Rodriguez scrambled seven

of her dozen eggs. How many eggs are left? _____ – _____ = _____

6. Mrs. Rodriguez also toasted six of the thirteen slices

of bread in a package. How many slices are left? _____ – _____ = _____

7. Mrs. Rodriguez cut a pineapple into fteen pieces.

Her family ate six. How many pieces are left? _____ – _____ = _____

8. A carton of juice held fourteen servings. e Rodriguez

family drank ve. How many ser

vings are left? _____ – _____ = _____

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Name: Date:

Read the word problems, then fill out the number bonds to answer the question. Show your work.

Spending Money Word Problems

Example: Gloria had 26¢. She

gave Penelope 14¢ to buy a

chocolate bar. How much did

she have left over?

1.

Kieran had 87¢. How much

would he have left over if he

bought a whistle for 75¢?

2.

Sin-Ku had 94¢. He bought

a cookie for 75¢ from the bake

sale. How much money did he

have left?

Number Bond

Work space Answer

26¢

14¢ ?

12¢

26

-14

12

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Spending Money Word Problems (continued)

3. Milo had 55¢. He saw a

comic book at a garage sale

for 49¢. How much money did

he have left over?

4.

Andrea had 48¢. She

bought origami paper from Milo

for 25¢. How much money did

Andrea have left?

Number Bond

Work space Answer

5. Norah had 67¢. She bought a

raffle ticket at the school fair for

25¢. How much did she have

left to spend?

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Candy Store Quiz:

Addition & Subtraction

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How many boxes did they sell?

1.

5 + 40 = 45 45 - 5 = 40 40 - 5 = 35 35 + 5 = 40

Mary had twenty pieces of candy and she shared nine of them with her friend.

How many pieces did Mary leave for herself?

2.

9 + 20 = 29 20 - 9 = 11 29 - 9 = 20 11 + 9 = 20

How much did the candy cost in all?

3.

25 - 10 = 15 30 - 10 = 20 10 + 5 = 15 25 + 10 = 35

sister counted seven on hers. How many almonds were there in all?

4.

7 + 5 = 12 7 - 5 = 2 12 - 5 = 7 5 + 2 = 7

How much money does he need to give back to his mother?

5.

8 - 5 = 3 5 + 3 = 8 3 + 2 = 5 5 - 3 = 2

that there were thirty. How many jelly beans was he off by?

6.

55 + 30 = 85 55 - 30 = 25 30 - 25 = 5 30 + 25 = 55

The store owner sold twelve bags of candy on Monday and seventeen bags on Wednesday.

How many bags of candy were sold in all?

7.

12 + 17 = 29 29 - 12 = 17 17 + 29 = 46 17 - 12 = 5

Hannah bought a bag with thirty-three pieces of red and green candy in it. Sixteen pieces of candy in

the bag were red. How many pieces were green?

8.

16 + 33 = 49 49 - 16 = 33 33 - 16 = 17 17 + 16 = 33

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The school fundraiser only had five of the forty boxes left to sell at the end of the month.

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Addition Facts

Word Problems

Write and solve an addition equation for each problem.

1. The city zoo has six white rhinos and seven black rhinos.

How many rhinos does it have in all?

____ + ____ = ____

2. The parrot house has seven adult macaws and ve young macaws. How many macaws does it have in all?

____ + ____ = ____

3. The Down Under Display has eight mother kangaroos. Four of them each have one baby.

How many kangaroos are there in all?

____ + ____ = ____

4. The zoo has eight Asian elephants and ve African elephants. How many elephants are there in all?

____ + ____ = ____

5. In the monkey house, there are seven tamarins and nine marmosets. How many monkeys are there in all?

____ + ____ = ____

6. Last year, the anaconda snake measured eight feet long. This year it grew another ve feet.

How many feet long is it this year?

____ + ____ = ____

7. The Polar Display has three penguins and seven harp seals. How many polar animals are there in all?

____ + ____ = ____

8. The seals eat six baskets of sh a day. How many baskets of sh do they eat in two days?

____ + ____ = ____

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