Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Jim earns $22.50, $14.75, and $8.50 on three different days.  How much did he earn in all? 

• $28.75

• $45.25

• $45.75

• 457.50

Ms. Hvozdik ran 12.3 mile on Saturday.  Ms. Chaney ran 4.9 miles.  How much farther did Mrs. Hvozdik run than Ms. Chaney? 

• 7.4

• 17.2

• 8.6

• 8

Students are collecting cans for a food drive.  Week one they collected 172.3 pounds of food. Week 5, they collected 238 pounds of food.  How much more did they collect in week 5? 

• 410.3

• 65.7

• 66.3

• 146.3

Abby buys a game for $7.89 and batteries for $5.49.  She pays with a twenty dollar bill, how much change will she receive? 

• 7.72

• 33.38

• 13.38

• 6.62

Jane bought three sheet so of poster board for $1.29 each and a pack of construction paper for $3.79.  How much did Jane spend in all? 

• 7.66

• 76.60

• 5.08

• 2.50

Jada and Jose were making cakes. Jada made ______ cakes and Jose made ______ cakes. How many cakes did they make? Which operation will you use to solve this?

• multiplication

• subtraction

• addition

• none of the above

There were ________ boxes of pencils at the beginning of the year. We used _________ boxes. How many boxes of pencils were left? Which operation would you use to solve this problem?

• subtraction

• multiplication

• addition

• none of these

Mrs. Little needs _________ books for her reading clubs. If she already has _________ books, how many more does she still need? Which operation would you use to solve this problem?

• none of these

• addition

• subtraction

• multiplication

Maddie has _______ colored pencils. She gives ________ to her friend. How many colored pencils does she have now? Which operation will you use to solve this?

• none of these

• multiplication

• addition

• subtraction

A total of 3,718 tickets were sold for a skating show. Of that total, 1,279 were adult tickets. The remaining tickets were child tickets. How many child tickets were sold?

• 2,439

• 2,561

• 3,439

• 4,997