Add and Subtract Decimals Word Problems

Jerry bought 6.95 lbs of cherry and lime jelly beans for his birthday party. If 1.75 lbs were cherry flavor, how many pounds were lime flavor?

• 8.7 lbs

• 5.2 lbs

• 7.70 lbs

• 6.7 lbs

Paige was measuring how much taller she got over two years. In the first year she grew 4.62 cm. In the second year she grew 7.7 cm. How much taller did she get altogether?

• 5.39 cm

• 11.78 cm

• 12.32 cm

• 12 cm

Vanessa downloaded two apps which were 17.73 kb total. If one app was 8 kb, how big was the other app?

• 9.73 kb

• 17.65 kb

• 25.73 kb

• 9.00 kb

Nancy was buying food for her birthday party. She bought a 52.93 oz bag of BBQ chips and a 79.6 oz bag of regular chips. How many ounces did she buy all together?

• 132.53 oz

• 608.9 oz

• 13.253 oz

• 26.67 oz

Tom was weighing the amount of candy he received for Halloween. If he received 8.30 kg and his brother received 12 kg, how much candy did they get altogether?

• 203 kg

• 8.42 kg

• 2.03 kg

• 20.3 kg

John ate a snack with 80.74 total calories. If the chips he ate were 43.79 calories, how many calories were in the rest of his snack?

• 124.53 calories

• 36.95 calories

• 37.4 calories

• 47.05 calories

A computer programmer had two files with a total size of 93 gigabytes. If one of the files was 50.30 gigabytes, how big is the second file?

• 427 gigabytes

• 143.3 gigabytes

• 50.63 gigabytes

• 42.7 gigabytes

A meteorologist was measuring the amount of rain two cities received over a week. City A received 3.74 inches while City B received 9.8 inches. How much rain did they get total?

• 13.54 inches

• 4.72 inches

• 6.06 inches

• 12.5 inches

Miss Doyle paid a total of $8.17 to mail three packages.

- She paid $2.77 to mail the first package.

- She paid $3 to mail the second package.

How much did Miss Doyle pay to mail the third package?

• $5.77

• $13.94

• $2.40

• Package 3 was free

Sam scored 399.8 points at a track meet. Eric scored 462.25 points at the same track meet. What is the difference in the amount of points they scored?

• 62.45 points

• 5,022.3 points

• 502.23 points

• 862.05 points