2-Step Word Problems

There are 5 bear dens in the Appalachian Mountains. Each den has 3 bears hibernating. 6 of the bears are adults. The rest are cubs. How many are cubs?

There are 6 rabbit burrows. Each burrow contains 7 rabbits. 24 of the rabbits are brown. How many are not brown?

Morgan, Baxter, Luke, and Lindsey went fishing in the Coastal Plains of Georgia. They each caught 8 fish. When they got home, their mom had purchased 10 more fish from the local supermarket. How many fish do they have in all?

Six corn fields in the Piedmont region of Georgia have 5 white-tailed deer eating corn. 8 more deer join in. How many deer are there in all?

There are nine hawks. Each hawk has a nest. There are 4 eggs in each nest. 28 of the eggs have hatched. How many have not hatched?

RM Moore Elementary is having a bake sale to raise money for the "Gopher Tortoise Conservation Initiative". Mr. Kimbrell's third grade students brought 17 cakes and 14 pies to sell at the bake sale. If 19 of the cakes and pies are chocolate, how many are not chocolate?

While on vacation, David took seventy-six pictures of the wildlife on Tybee Island and fifty-nine pictures of the animals that live in the Okefenokee Swamp. Later he deleted all but forty-eight pictures. How many pictures did he delete?

There were 465 sea turtle eggs laid on the beach at Tybee Island. 78 of the turtle eggs didn't hatch. 21 of the turtle eggs were eaten by predators. The rest of the sea turtles hatched and made it safely to the ocean. How many of the sea turtles made it to the ocean?

In the Okefenokee Swamp, David counted 49 cranes, 34 ducks, and some alligators. If the total number of cranes, ducks, and alligators is 92, how many alligators were there?