Adding and Subtracting Integers Word Problems Worksheet

Marie descends 15 ft below ground. Nancy descends 22 ft below ground. What is the difference in their depths?

On Halloween morning, the number of candies in a trick-or-treater's bag was 3. By 10:00am, they lost 12 candies after a spooky scare. By noon, they found 5 candies hidden in a pumpkin. At 3:00pm, they received 9 more candies from a friendly witch. By nightfall, they lost 16 more candies to a sneaky ghost. How many candies did the trick-or-treater have at nightfall?

A trick-or-treater starts at a height of 82 feet and descends 19 feet. What is his new height?

Sarah collected 89 pieces of candy while trick-or-treating at the start of the night and had 74 pieces left at the end. Which integer represents the change in Sarah's candy count?

Jackson's elevation after descending 143 feet from -210 feet.

The level of spooky fog in the haunted graveyard was -4 feet. After a particularly eerie Halloween night, the fog level dropped by 13 feet. What is the fog level after the night?

Mr. Oles starts the month with a Halloween candy debt of 42 pieces (he owes 42 pieces). After he receives 6 pieces of candy from a friend, what is his new candy balance?

Temperature at 8 am in City A was -12 degrees. It rose by 8 degrees by 10 am. What was the temperature at 10 am?

A witch was flying 1250 meters below the clouds on her broomstick on Halloween night. She soared upward 750 meters. What value represents her position relative to the clouds after rising?

On Halloween night, if you collect a NEGATIVE number of candies from one haunted house and then collect another NEGATIVE number of candies from the next haunted house, your total number of candies will be...