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James and Theresa are shopping for new

Addition and Subtraction school clothes. James spends £40. Theresa
spends £55. How much money do they spend
Problem Solving in all on new school clothes?

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Anna rode 17 kilometres on her bike this week. Joey baked 24 chocolate cupcakes and 12
Brandon rode 24 kilometres on his bike this strawberry cupcakes for the school bake sale.
week. How many kilometres did they ride How many cupcakes did he bake in all?
altogether?

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Maddie practices piano every day for 25 Diana drank 600 millilitres of water on her
minutes. How many minutes does she practice way up a mountain and 300 millilitres on
in 2 days? her way down. How many millilitres did she
drink in total?

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Mike started school supply shopping with Will bought a bag of 75 marbles. He lost 31 of
£100. He left the first store and only had £35 them. How many marbles does he have left?
left. How much money did he spend in the
first store?

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Jane did homework for 35 minutes. Lily did Vikram wants to run 100 kilometres this
homework for 50 minutes. How many more month. He has already run 64 kilometres.
minutes did Lily spend on her homework How many more does he need to run in order
than Jane? to reach his goal?

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Tom baked 45 cookies for the bake sale. Valerie hiked 7 kilometres on Monday, 14
His sister ate 7 of them. How many cookies kilometres on Tuesday and 9 kilometres on
are left? Wednesday. How many kilometres did she
hike in all?

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Sean bought 15 pencils, 24 markers, and 18 The students at Oak Primary School spend
crayons. How many writing utensils did he 30 minutes in reading groups, 45 minutes
buy in all? in math class and 25 minutes at break time.
How much time do they spend on these three
activities altogether?

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Emma spends 40 minutes getting ready Zoe exercises every day for 60 minutes. She
for school. She spends 15 minutes eating spends 19 minutes warming up, 11 minutes
breakfast, 10 minutes in the shower and the cooling down and the rest of the time is spent
rest of the time is spent getting on her main activity for the day. How much
dressed. How much time does time does she spend on her main activity for
she spend getting dressed? the day?

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Jack has 17 pens. Jon has 5 less than Jack. Sarah has 98 football cards in her collection.
How many pens do the boys have in all? 29 of them were a gift from her grandfather.
How many cards were not a gift from
her grandfather?

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Matthew collects cat figurines. He has a total Alexia needs 100 ribbons for a project. Alexia
of 78 in all. He bought 41 of them, found 13 cut 61 of the ribbons, her sister cut 12 of the
of them and the rest were gifts. How many ribbons. Her mom cut the rest. How many
figurines were gifts? ribbons did Alexia’s mum cut?

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There are 89 people in a room. 32 of the people Key:

are wearing hats. How many people are not
wearing hats? 1. 40+55=95
2. 17+24=41
3. 24+12=36
4. 25+25=50
5. 600+300=900
6. 100-?=35, ?=65
7. 75-31=44
8. 50-35=15
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10. 45-7=38
11. 7+9+14=30
12. 15+24+18=57
13. 30+45+25=100
14. 15+10=25, 40-25=15 or 40-10-15=15
15. 19+11+?=60, ?=30 or 19+11=30 and 60-30=30
16. 17-5=12, 12+17=29
17. 98-29=69
18. 41+13+?=78, ?=24 or 41+13=54, 78-54=24
19. 61+12+?= 100 , ?=27 or 61+12=73, 100-73=2
20. 89-32=57

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