Math Word Problems

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Claire and Maximus buy a small bag of popcorn and a pretzel at the movie theater. The pretzel weighs 63 grams more than the popcorn. If the popcorn weighs 44 grams, what is the weight of the pretzel? 

What does the key word tell you to do?

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add

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What words tell us what to do in the question: Maddie ate 32 cookies. Katie ate 12 cookies. What is the difference between the amount of cookies Maddie ate and Katie ate?

Back

difference

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What words tell us what to do in the question: A restaurant made 72 muffins. They sold 32 muffins. How many muffins are left?

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left

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Difference between the masses of Paulette's smallest and largest dogs (15.8 kg and 25.2 kg).

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9.4 kg

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There are 549 fifth graders and 492 4th graders at an elementary school. About how many more 5th graders are there than 4th graders?

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60

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Mario has room for 15 more minutes of songs on his iPod. He is going to upload three songs that are 5.15, 4.4, and 4.8 minutes long. About how many minutes will he have room for after he uploads these three songs?

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1 minute

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Estimate the area of a banner measuring 2.8 feet long and 1.2 feet wide. Options: 1 square foot, 3 square feet, 30 square feet, 7 square feet.

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3 square feet

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Mr. Timura bought catfish to stock his fishing tank the last three years. In the first year he bought 365 catfish, the second year he bought 272 catfish, and the third year he bought 112 catfish. How many catfish did he buy during the 3 years?

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749