Word problems with extra information
The question
What is the difference in water bottles between Courtney and Farah?
Courtney has 16 water bottles and Farah has 8 water bottles. Courtney also has 11 food pellets.
Courtney has 16 water bottles and Farah has 8 water bottles. Courtney also has 11 food pellets.
numbers:168
16 − 8
asked:What is the difference in water bottles between Courtney and Farah?
16 − 8 =8
8 water bottles
- Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- The numbers are 16 and 8. What to do with them comes from the story.
- Two amounts are being compared, and the question is the GAP between them. A gap is always a subtraction, even when the story never says 'take away'. So this one is a subtraction: 16 − 8.
- 16 − 8 = 8 water bottles — that answers "What is the difference in water bottles between Courtney and Farah?".
How it works.
- 01
Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- 02
The numbers are 16 and 8. What to do with them comes from the story.
- 03
Two amounts are being compared, and the question is the GAP between them. A gap is always a subtraction, even when the story never says 'take away'. So this one is a subtraction: 16 − 8.
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16 − 8 = 8 water bottles — that answers "What is the difference in water bottles between Courtney and Farah?".