Add and Subtract with Measurements

What is the distance around the door?

• 3+7 = 21 feet

• 3+7+3+7 = 20 feet

Ashley's sunflower is 70 inches tall. Kwame's sunflower is 60 inches tall. How much taller is Ashley's sunflower than Kwame's sunflower?

• 70+60=130 inches

• 70 - 60 =10 inches

• 20 inches

What is the length of the shorter side of the rectangles? Complete the equation to solve. 20 + ___ + 20 + ___ = 60

• 20 centimeters

• 60 centimeters

• 10 centimeters

How much longer is the red scarf than the blue scarf?

• 20 inches

• 15 inches

A beaver is 15 inches long. It grows 23 inches. How long is the beaver now?

• 8 inches

• 38 inches

• 30 inches

• 38 centimeters

What is the distance around the cell phone?

• 2+4+2+4 = 12 inches

• 4-2 = 2 inches

Ben measures the length of a leaf and a plant. The leaf is 15 centimeters. The plant is 37 centimeters. How much shorter is the leaf than the plant?