Whole Number Word Problems: Addition and Subtraction

Lucy went to the grocery store. She bought 12 packs of cookies and 16 packs of noodles. How many packs of groceries did she buy in all?

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Roden went to a pet shop. He bought 15 gold fish, 7 blue fish and 3 packages of fish food. How many fish did he buy?

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Aling Josie went to the market. She bought 5 kilos of rice and 2 kilos of fish. How many kilos of groceries did she have?

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Mr. Cervantes asked his students to bring fruit for their year-end party. Cristy brought ten bananas, Clark brought six apples, and Honey Mae brought two large watermelons. How many fruits were there in the party?

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A jar of sugar contains ten spoonsful of sugar. Father was making a coffee and scooped 2 spoonsful of sugar from the jar. How many spoonsful of sugar left?

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The temperature at 11 o’clock in the morning was 36° Celsius. At around 7 o’clock in the evening, it was 27° Celsius. How much degree-Celsius was the change in temperature?

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5. The small carton box contains 15 chocolate bars. If there are 3 boxes in the bag, how many chocolate bars are there?

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Victor has 14 stamps. His friend gave him 23 stamps. How many stamps does Victor have in all?

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The girls had 3 weeks to sell tickets for their play. In the first week, they sold 75 tickets. In the second week they sold 108 tickets and in the third week they sold 210 tickets. How may tickets did they sell in all?

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Mr. Bose spent $450 for petrol on Wednesday. He spent $125 more than that on Thursday. How much did he spend on petrol on those two days.

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