Numberless Word Problems

A local farmer had peaches and sold peaches at a local market. If the farmer then sold peaches to her neighbor, how many peaches does the farmer have left?

• subtract and subtract

• add and subtract

• add

• subtract

Answer explanation

You begin with a total of peaches and then subtract what was sold at the market to get your new total. From here you subtract again the peaches sold to the neighbor to get your final total of what you have left.

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CCSS.1.OA.A.1

Maritza has different colored beads in her bag. She has yellow beads and blue beads. She lost some beads. How many beads does she have in her bag?

• subtract

• multiply

• subtract and add

• add and subtract

Answer explanation

You have to add up how many beads she has in total first and then subtract the lost beads to find out how many remain.

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CCSS.2.OA.A.1

The list shows the number of fourth-grade students attending a skating rink party. 

Students from Garfield Elem

Students from Jensen Elem

Students from Gardens Elem

If the skating rink has a capacity of students, how many more students can attend the party?

• add, add, subtract

• subtract, add, subtract

• subtract, subtract, add

• multiply

Answer explanation

You will add Garfield and Jensen, then add Gardens to their total and subtract from the total capacity of the skating rink.

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Daniel has football figurines and basketball figurines displayed on his shelf. How many more basketball figurines does he have than football figurines on his shelf? 

• add

• multiply

• divide

• subtract

Answer explanation

How many more is comparing two items and so it is solving for the difference, so you will subtract.

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CCSS.2.OA.A.1

Carlos ran minutes in the month of May and minutes in the month of June. How many miles did he run in both months?

• add

• multiply

• divide

• subtract

Answer explanation

You are joining both May and June so you will be adding.

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

David has a fence around his barn that is # feet long.

If he paints an equal section length of the fence each day

for # days, which equation represents the section length

that David will paint each day?

• add

• multiply

• divide

• subtract

Answer explanation

You start with a total length of the fence and then you break the total down to a number of days. Your number will not get bigger it should get smaller because you are breaking it down to know the amount painted each day.

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.3

Diana worked # hours each week during the summer. She

worked a total of # weeks and earned $# an hour. How

much money did Diane earn during the summer?

• add, subtract

• subtract, add

• multiply, divide

• multiply, multiply

Answer explanation

You will first want to find out how many hours she worked in total so you will multiply the number of hours per week and the number of weeks she worked. Then once you know the total of hours worked, you will multiply it by the dollars she earns per hour.

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

The coaches at Xavier Elementary bought cases of sports

drinks for field day. They bought # cases of drinks. Each

case contained # drinks. All the drinks were given out to

students. Each student received # sports drinks. How many

students received sports drinks?

• Subtract, add

• add, subtract

• multiply, divide

• divide, multiply

Answer explanation

First you need to find the total number of drinks that they bought. You will need to multiply the cases of drinks by the number of drinks in each case because it is working with more than one case of drinks, that is why you do not add. Then you will separate the total of drinks to the students and each one gets a certain amount. So you do not have one student getting a amount of drinks you have a group of them that is why you divide and not subtract.

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Alan has # boxes with # oranges in each box. If he

separates the oranges equally into # boxes, how many

oranges will be in each box?

• add, subtract

• add, add

• multiply, divide

• multiply, multiply

Answer explanation

You have to find a total of the oranges from all the boxes so you would multiply it since it is more than one box. You then will separate as the problem says to the new boxes, and because it is more than one box, you will divide to find the number in each box.

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

A baker is making cakes. It takes 9 eggs to make each cake. The

baker has 8 cartons of eggs, and each carton contains 12 eggs.

What is the greatest number of cakes the baker can make using

these eggs?

Draw me a picture or a strip diagram of what is happening with the story.

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8