Lengths word problems

Sarah’s toy car is 6 inches long and Tim’s toy car is 8 inches long. How many inches long are both toy cars together?

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Emily has a ribbon that is 13 inches long and her friend Lily has a ribbon that is 20 inches long. What is the difference in length between their ribbons?


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A caterpillar crawls 23 inches and then it crawls 14 inches more. How many inches has the caterpillar crawled in total?

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Lisa has 4 ribbons. Each of them is 25 centimeters long. What is the total length of all the ribbons?

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Alex has a toy car that is 24 centimeters long, and his brother Mike has a toy car that is 16 centimeters long. What is the difference in length between the toy cars?

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A carpenter has a wooden plank that is 80 centimeters long. He wants to saw it into 4 equal pieces. What is the length of each piece of the plank?


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Lisa's nail is 6 centimeters long. Nancy's nail is

2 centimeters shorter than Lisa's. How many

centimeters long is Nancy's nail?

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On Shawn's bookshelf, the dictionary is 8 inches

tall. The German literature book is 3 inches taller

than the dictionary. How many inches tall is the

German literature?

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Joy's boot is 13 centimeters long. Mac’s boot is 3

centimeters longer than Joy's. Kennel's boot is 3

centimeters shorter than Joy's. How many

centimeters long is Kennel's boot?

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Each pencil is 7 centimeters long. A box contains

6 pencils lined up end to end. What is the total

length of all the pencils in the box?

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