Integer Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Mrs. D has 21 students in her class. Mrs. Hunt has 18 students in her class. How many more students are in Mrs. D's class? 

• 17 students

• 3 students

• 7 students

• 39 students

Pop Pop has 25 posters.  He bought 15 more.  How many does he have now?

• 10 posters

• 30 posters

• 15 posters

• 40 posters

Pierre has 13 boxes of lego. His mother bought 10 more boxes. How many many boxes of lego does he have in all?

• 3 boxes of lego

• 23 boxes of lego

• 3 boxes

• 23 boxes

If I have 50 pesos and I decided to buy corneto worth 25 pesos, how much is my change?

Answer: __ pesos

There were 25 tennis racquets and 36 hockey

sticks. How many more hockey sticks are there

than tennis racquets?

• There are 10 more hockey sticks than tennis rackets.

• There are 11 more hockey sticks than tennis rackets.

• There are 12 more hockey sticks than tennis rackets.

• There are 13 more hockey sticks than tennis rackets.

There were 7 baseballs in a basket and Daniel found 6 more baseballs on the floor. Then, a student borrowed 5 baseballs. How many baseballs were left in the storeroom? Which of the following is the mathematical sentence?

• 7 + 6 - 5 = 8

• 7 - 6 - 5 = 8

• 7 + 6 + 5 = 8

• 7 - 6 + 5 = 8

In a word problem, when the word clue is "how many in all", the operation to be used is _____.

Beth has 74 crayons. She gives 25 of them away to Jen. How many crayons does Beth have left?

• 46 crayons

• 47 crayons

• 48 crayons

• 49 crayons

18 children were riding on the bus. At the bus stop, some more children got on the bus. Then there were 25 children altogether on the bus. How many children got on the bus at the bus stop?

• 41 children

• 42 children

• 43 children

• 44 children

Finn has 89 goldfish. 32 of the goldfish escaped! How many goldfish are left?

• 56 goldfish

• 57 goldfish

• 58 goldfish

• 59 goldfish