Represent Addition and Subtraction Problems - 3.5A

A cafeteria sold a total of 513 drinks on Wednesday. The table shows the number of each type of drink that was sold. the number of bottles of milk is missing from the table.

Which set of equations can be used to find the number of bottles of milk sold?

• 172 + 263 = 435

  513 + 435 = ___

• 263 - 172 = 91

  513 - 91 = ___

• 513 - 172 = 341

  341 + 263 = ___

• 172 + 263 = 435

  513 - 435 = ___

A total of 562 students are enrolled in Pickleberry Elementary School. Of these students, 234 are boys, and 328 are girls.

Which equation shows how many more girls that boys are enrolled in Pickleberry Elementary School?

• 328 - 234 = 94

• 562 - 328 = 234

• 562 - 234 - 328 = 0

• 562 - 234 = 328

Which word problem can be solved using the number line below?

• Lisa bought 584 beads at the store. If 112 beads are glass beads, how many beads are not glass beads.

• Lisa bought 112 blue beads and 472 red beads. How many beads did Lisa purchase in all?

• Lisa bought 472 pink beads and 584 green beads. How many more green beads that pink beads did Lisa buy?

• None of these will work with the number line

To make a tree house Allen needs 230 planks of wood. He found 87 planks of wood in his garage. His father gave him 66 planks of wood.

How many more planks of wood does Allen need to build his tree house?

• 21 planks

• 77 planks

• 164 planks

• 143 planks

Jack and Victor were playing a video game. Jack scored 430 points, and Victor scored 385 points. Together they need a total of 900 points to advance to the next level.

Which equation is NOT the CORRECT way to show how many more points they need?

• 900 - 430 = 470

  470 - 385 = 85

• 900 - 385 =515

  515 - 430 = 85

• 900 - (430+385)=85

• 430 + 385 = 815

  815 - 900 = 85

There are 322 brown cows and 546 black cows on Aunt Sally's Farm. Which one of the following equations will give the TOTAL number of ALL cows on Aunt Sally's Farm?

• all cows - 564 = 322

• 546 - 322 = all cows

• all cows + 322 = 546

• 322 + 546 = all cows

Andrea has 140 stickers in her collection. Maricel is also collecting stickers. If they combine their stickers, Andrea and Maricel have a total of 632 stickers.

Which equation shows the number of stickers in Maricel's collections?

• 632 + 142 = Maricel's stickers

• 142 - Maricel's stickers = 632

• 632 - 142 = Maricel's stickers

• Maricel's stickers - 140 = 632

Bradley bought 520 feet of fencing material. He used 223 feet to fix the fence in the pig pen. He used 248 feet to fix the fence around the potato garden.

How many feet of fencing material was left?

• 471 feet

• 297 feet

• 272 feet

• 49 feet

Cassandra earns a monthly salary of $880. Each month she pays $215 in rent, she spends $156 for food and she spends $96 on her other bills. She saves the rest of her money.

How much of her monthly salary does she save?

• $467

• $448

• $433

• $413

Marcus has a box containing 550 solid- colored cubes. If 188 of the cubes are blue, 211 are green, and the rest are purple.

Which equation is NOT the CORRECT way to show how many of the cubes in the box are purple?

• 550-211+188=151

• 550 - (188+211)=151

• 550 - (211+188)=151

• 550-188-211=151