Add and Subtract: Word Problems

Since he was hired, a chef has served 8,330 adults and 7,792 children.

What is the total number of guests served?

___guests

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

After a natural disaster, a clothing company wanted to help.

The company donated 8,084 shirts and 5,865 pairs of pants.

How many pieces of clothing did the company donate?

___pieces of clothing

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

A car company produced 3,342 cars in North America and 8,852 cars in Europe.

How many cars is that in all?

___cars

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CCSS.2.NBT.B.7

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

At a busy ant colony, there are 98,997 ants inside the ant hill and 81,281 exploring outside.

How many ants total are there?

___ants

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

So far, an orchard has sold a total of 524,726 pounds of fresh fruit and 327,172 pounds of frozen fruit this season.

In total, how many pounds of fruit have been sold?

___pounds

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

Before the recent housing boom, there were 326 houses in Butler County. Now, there are 5,924 houses.

How many houses did developers build during the housing boom?

___houses

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

Sadie decided to close her comic book store, so she is selling some of her 7,567 comic books.

She now has 167 comic books left.

How many comic books has Sadie sold?

___comic books

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

Yardley Hospital treated 4,846 patients last year who were children, out of a total of 9,479 patients.

How many of the hospital's patients last year were adults?

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

A video game company sold a total of 6,045 white and black game consoles.

They sold 2,078 black consoles. How many white consoles did they sell?

___consoles

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3

A hydroelectric plant uses water to create electricity.

Before water enters the plant, it passes through two filters.

Engineers found a total of 52,509 pieces of litter in the filters.

There were 6,818 pieces of litter in the first filter.

How many pieces of litter were in the second filter?

___pieces of litter

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CCSS.4.OA.A.3