Solving Two Word Problems

Cabanatuan
2nd day
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1. Gemma was 6 years when John turned 2. John
turned 10 years old today. How old is Gemma?
Listing/tabular Method:
Gemma John
6 2
7 3
8 4
9 5
10 6
11 7
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1. Gemma was 6 years when John turned 2. John
turned 10 years old today. How old is Gemma?
Listing/tabular Method:
Gemma John
12 8
13 9
14 10

Gemma is 14 years old.

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2. Karla started to read chapter books. She
read 1 book in January, 2 books in February, 3
books in March. If she continues to read 1
more book each month, how many book in all
would she have read by end of April.
Listing/ tabular method.
Number of books read Months
1 January
2 February
3 March
4 April
10 Total books read
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3. Room 1 and Room 2 have 58 students in all. 4
students were transferred from room 1 to room 2. Now
the two rooms have the same number of students.
How many students were there in each room before
the transfer?

Room 1 and Room 2

58
Room 1 29 + 4 33 58/2 = 29-4 = 25
25 + 4 =33 room 1
Room 2 29 - 4 25
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4. When I open Math book there are two
pages which face me. The greater number
has digits whose sum is 9. If the sum of the two
pages is 53, what are these pages?
Guess and Check
List digits whose sum is 9 Add the number you
 1 and 8 choose from the
 2 and 7 number that will
 3 and 6 make it to 53
 4 and 5 27 + 26 =53
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What is the answer in ?
Subtract 5 from the sum of 7
and 8
Add 8 to the difference of 34
and 9
56 decreased by 27
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What is the answer in ?
Add 12 to 25 and then subtract
14.
Subtract 8 from the difference
of 18 and 5
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What number am I?
I am an even number. When
you take away 5 from me, you
get 13.
Think of two digit even number greater
than 13 and can be subtracted by 5
which will get 13.
18-5 = 13
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What number am I?
If you add me to 25, the
answer will be 48.
Subtract 25 to 48.
48 – 25 = 23
23 + 25 = 48
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What number am I?
If you add me to 46, the
answer is 84.
Subtract 46 to 84.
84 – 46 = 38
38 + 46 = 84
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What number am I?
If you add me to 58, the
answer will be 75.
Subtract 58 to 75.
75 – 58 = 17
17 + 58 = 75
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What number am I?
Nine more than myself is 25
Subtract 9 from 25.
25 - 9 = 16
16 + 9 = 25
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Subtract Orally
9–5= 4–2= 6–5=
8–3= 3–3= 8–5=
6–2= 3–2= 5–1=
5–4= 5–5= 6–0=
7–4= 10 – 8 = 13 – 6 =