Name: Class: Date: worksheet Solving word problems Tae solve the word problems. 1, Abakery sold 470 muffins last week. It sold 216 muffins this week. How many muffins did the bakery sell altogether? 47 21 0 + 6 9 470 +216 =____ ce" Ee me) The bakery sold muffins altogether. Saas 2. The mass of Box A is 340 kg. Box B is 184 kg lighter than Box A. What is the mass of Box B? 340 A [BI ® 184 340-184 =__ The mass of Box B is kg. Scanned with CamScanneron 3. Janet has 185 storybooks. Carol has 156 storybooks more than Jan How many storybooks does Carol have? et + = Carol has storybooks. 4. There are 570 passengers on a train. 82 passengers are children and the rest are adults. How many adults are there on the train? There are adults on the train. Scanned with CamScanner5, Ina oa Shop, there are 375 pens. There are 89 more pencils than pens. How many pencils are there in the stationery shop? There are Pencils in the stationery shop. 6. 685 people attended q health fair, blood pressure taken. How mai pressure taken? 429 people did not have their Iny people did have their blood ——— people had their blood pressure taken. bid 8 satan wennas “Scanned with CamScanners father gives him $5. $276. His 7, Mark hs does Mark have now? How much money Mark has $__— now. 8. Astring is 300 cm long. A wire is 112 cm shorter than the string. What is the length of the wire? The length of the wire is cm. Scanned with CamScannerd 156 pages of a storybook last week. She reads another mary (0 week. Dennis read 124 | . 5 this we less pages than Mary. 9. m8 ny pages of the storybook did Dennis read? " 01 must fis find the to of pages Mary rec 156 + 98 = —— 4 Mary read pages of the storybook. y Dennis read pages of the storybook. Scanned with CamScanner10. There were 329 apples at a fruit stall. There were 135 fewer pears than apples to begin with. Later, 58 pears were sold. (a) How many pears were there to begin with? (b)_ How many pears were there left? (a) There were pears to begin with. (b) There were pears left Scanned with CamScanneraschool sent 265 boys and 198 Girls to th i n. morning. 127 of the older children went backin the ‘dhiemocn attend extra classes. © afternoon to (a) How many children were there at the zoo in the morning? (b) How many children were there left at he zoo? There were children at the zoo in the morning. (b) There were children left at the zoo. Scanned with CamScanner—_— i a 256 cookies to raise funds for her school, 2 sensi ies than Kent. How many - She sold 109 more cookies : y & Dy ies di || altogether? ies did Jean and Kent se = ~ Sh Jean and Kent sold cookies altogether. Scanned with CamScanner