Multi-Step Word Problems Addition Subtraction

Keith wants 120 cupcakes for his party. Keith has already made 24 vanilla cupcakes, and 60 mocha cupcakes. How many more cupcakes does Keith need to make?

For baseball season, Sandy decided to buy 28 balls, 16 pairs of shorts, as well as 33 pairs of baseball shoes. In total, how many objects did Sandy buy for baseball season?

Sara wants several different color plates for her birthday. Sara wants to get 96 black plates, 120 cyan plates, and some amount of silver plates. In total, Sara wants 360 plates, so how many silver plates should she get?

Jim has one dollar.  He spends 16 cents on a pencil.  Jim's dad gives him five dollars for mowing the grass. Write an equation with a letter for the unknown to find out how much money Jim has now.

• 100¢ -16¢  ⁼ m

• m ⁼1 dollar

• $1.00 - $.16 + $5.00 ⁼ m

• 5 +1 + 16⁼ m

Ronnie needs 101 cupcakes for a birthday party. He already has 21 chocolate cupcakes and 33 vanilla cupcakes. How many more cupcakes should Ronnie buy?

• 80

• 113

• 47

• 68

Janet's mother gave her $76 to go to the store. Janet bought 2 loaves of bread and 4 cartons of orange juice. Each loaf of bread cost $5 and each carton of orange juice cost $3. How much money does Janet have left?

• 68

• 54

• 84

• 20

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

• 10 posters

• 30 posters

• 15 posters

• 40 posters

Which keyword can be used in addition word problems?

• less than

• how many more

• in all

• fewer

Belle bought 5 packs of white T-shirts and 3 packs of blue T-shirts for her basketball team. The white T-shirts come in packs of 2, and the blue T-shirts come in packs of 6. How many T-shirts did Belle buy in all?

• 28

• 16

• 18

• 10

Which operation involves putting two or more amounts together to find a sum?

• Addition

• Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division