Word Problems

Miss Fanuous wrote a number sentence on the board: ________ - 120 = 330. Which word problem could Miss Fanouse use to solve the number sentence?

• Ana is reading a book. She has read 120 pages. She still needs to

  read 330 more pages. How many pages are in the book?

• Ana is reading a book that is 330 pages. She has read 120 pages.

  How many pages does Ana have left to finish reading the book?

• Ana read 330 pages of her book the first week. The book is 120

  pages. How many pages does Ana have left to finish reading the

  book?

Reed had some baseball cards in an album. He gave away 131 cards. Now he has 372 cards in his album. Reed made a strip diagram to model the number of cards he started with.

Which set of number sentences shows how Reed found the number of cards he started with?

• __ = 131 + 372

  372 + 131 = 503

• __ + 131 = 372

  372 + 131 = 530

• __ – 131 = 372

  372 - 131 = 241

A fire truck has twice as many wheels as Lee’s tricycle. His tricycle has 3 wheels. How many wheels does the fire truck have?

• 3 wheels

• 5 wheels

• 6 wheels

Mrs. Meyer has 15 friends. She can only take eight of her friends to the movies. How many friends cannot go to the movies?

• 0 friends

• 7 friends

• 8 friends

• 15 friends

Audrina picked 4 flowers in her backyard. Her brother picked six more flowers. How many did Audrina and her brother pick in all?

• 9

• 2

• 8

• 10

Ben has 15 pencils, Bryce has twelve pencils. How many fewer pencils does Bryce have than Ben?

• 4 pencils

• 7 pencils

• 3 pencils

• 1 pencils

There were 7 flowers in the vase. Amarachi put some more in the vase. Then there were 15 flowers in the vase. How many more flowers did Amarachi put into the vase?

• 7 flowers

• 8 flowers

• 22 flowers

• 17 flowers

In a school library there are 282 fiction books and 158 non-fiction books. The Mrs. Wetherington counted 33 books checked out. What is the total number of books in the school library that are not checked out?

• 91 books

• 473 books

• 407 books

There were 32 people in the store. 12 more people walked into the store. What equation represents the problem?

• 32 - 12 = 20

• 32 + 12 = 44

• 32 + 12 = 40

32 second graders were in the gym. 12 of them left the gym. Then, 8 more left the gym. How many second graders are in the gym now?

• 44

• 36

• 16

• 12