H o mewo rk

and Practice

6.3

Numbers and Operations4.4.A

MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES 4.1.A, 4.1.B,
4.1.D

Name

Comparison Problems
with Addition and Subtraction
PROBLEM SOLVING

Use the information in the table for 13.

1. How much farther did Abbys balloon travel than Jakes balloon?
Think: How can a strip diagram help represent the problem? What
equation can be written?

Abby

Jake

47,149

46,394

Total Distance
Traveled in One Day
Balloonist

Distance in Feet

Abby

47,149

Jake

46,394

Diana

41,507

Kunal

32,766

Martin

29,912

47,149 46,394 = __ feet.

2. Which balloonist traveled 11,595 feet farther than

Martin? Draw a strip diagram and write a number

sentence to solve the problem.

3. What is the difference between the greatest distance

traveled and the least distance traveled?

__ feet
Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
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4. At the balloon festival, 1,539 people

volunteered. Then, 253 more people

volunteered. How many people volunteered
for the event?

5. A vendor at the balloon festival sold 10,450

shirts the first year and 11,232 shirts the

following year. How many more shirts were
sold in the second year than in the first year?

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Lesson
Lesson Check
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Fill in the bubble completely to show your answer.
6. Last week, 52,341 people attended the

football game. This week, 7,769 fewer

people attended the football game.

7. A bookstore made $7,499 in book sales and

$4,829 in magazine sales.

7,499

52,341

4,829
7,769
How many people attended the game
this week?

How much more did the store collect in

book sales than it did in magazine sales?

54,572

44,572

$11,328

$12,328

50,110

60,110

$3,760

$2,670

was 37,135. In July, 3,353 fewer people

attended the theater. How many people
attended the theater in July?
A

40,448

34,482

33,782

4,685

10. Multi-Step There were 36,491 visitors to

the water park last month. This month there

were 1,873 more visitors than last month.
What is the total number of visitors for
both months?

202

74,855

38,364

64,755

37,263

9. A sports store collected $53,285 for sporting

equipment in the summer. During the

winter, the company collected $89,135
for sporting equipment. How much
more did the store collect in the winter
than in the summer?
A

$35,850

$35,980

$142,420

$35,950

11. Multi-Step Marcia drove her car

19,543 miles the first year she owned it.

The second year, she drove it 759 miles
more than the first year. What is the total
number of miles she drove after owning
the car for two years?
A

38,835 miles

39,845 miles

19,292 miles

20,302 miles

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8. The attendance at the theater during June