Aaddition and Subtraction (2)

1. There are 305 children at Cherry Lane Primary School. 167 of them are girls. How many are boys?

2. What is the difference between 520 and 365?

3. Joe has a box of 72 chocolates. He gives 18 of the chocolates to his friends. How many chocolates

are left in the box?

4. Patrick had 80 cards. This morning he won another 17 cards from a friend but then lost 39.

How many cards does he have now?

5. Yesterday Cynthia had 97p. She spent 35p this morning. Her mom then gave her another 50p. How

much does she have now?

6. Subtract 56p from 2.

7. A boy takes 23 marbles from a bag containing 48. How many are left?

8. I think of a number, and then subtract 12. The answer is 26. What was my number?

9. A box holds 300 nuts. How many nuts are left if you eat 126 nuts?

10. It costs 95p for a child to swim. How much does it cost for two children?

11. Jack has a 315m walk to school. Kims walk is 150m less. How long is Kims journey?

12. Peter has a 2 coin. It costs 75p for one person to go swimming. He pays for two people. How much

change do he get?

13. Lee has 242 cards. Tom has 157 cards. How many more conkers does Lee have than Tom?

14. Last year 63 children joined the school football club. Twice as many children want to join the school

football club this year. How many children want to join this year?

15. Three schools went to watch a pantomime. There were 125 children from St. Annes school, 103

children from Little Oaks School and 89 children from Far Fields School. How many children went to

watch the pantomime?

16. There are 2250 people in a football stadium. 1000 people got to the stadium by train, 500 people

came by bus and the rest walked to the stadium. How many people walked to the stadium?

17. Hillary buys a mixed bag of 100 sweets. There are 15 long, 13 round and 24 flat sweets. The rest are

all triangular, how many is that?

18. Write in figures seven thousand and twenty-four.

19. Sam is 153cm tall. Gus is 124cm tall. What is the height difference between them?

20. Timothy had 32 football cards. He gives his friend 15 cards. He then loses 3.

How many does he have left?