Primary 2 Maths
December Holidays Week 3
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Date:
Topic: Word Problems (Using Models)
Section A
Work out the following problem sums.
Show your working clearly.
1) Doris has $150. Martin has $288.
How much money do they have altogether?
Ans:_______________
2) David collected 86 seashells. Mike collected 54 seashells.
How many seashells did they collect altogether?
Ans:_________________
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3) Kelly and Karen spent $150. Kelly spent $78.
How much money did Karen spend?
Ans:_________________
4) Mr Chua delivers a total of 967 copies of English and Chinese
newspapers in the morning. He delivers 685 copies of English
newspapers. How many copies of Chinese newspapers does
he deliver?
Ans:_________________
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5) Aaron has 58 coloured beads. His mother buys him another
36 coloured beads. His uncle gives him 24 coloured beads
on his birthday. How many coloured beads does Aaron
have altogether?
Ans:_________________
6) Arthur has $428. His mother gives him $423. His father gives
him another $186. How much money does Arthur have now?
Ans:__________________
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7) Miss Lee had 200 sweets. She gave some sweets away to her
class. She had 32 sweets left. How many sweets did she give
away to her class?
Ans:_________________
8) Mrs Chandra baked 543 gingerbread men. She sold some
of them in the morning. She had 393 gingerbread men left.
How many gingerbread men did she sell in the morning?
Ans:_________________
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9) A bookseller sold 385 books on Monday and 454 books on
Tuesday. How many books did he sell altogether on the two
days?
Ans:_________________
10) Uncle Tommy managed to sell 188 mangoes, 237 apples
and 355 oranges in a week. How many fruits did Uncle
Tommy sell altogether in a week?
Ans:_________________
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11)A cake shop owner bakes a total of 125 apple tarts and
pineapple tarts. She bakes 64 apple tarts. How many pineapple
tarts does she bake?
Ans:________________
12) Freddy collected 323 postcards. He gave away some
postcards to his brother and had 209 postcards left.
How many postcards did he give away to his brother?
Ans:_________________
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13) Aunt Sally had $1000. She spent $299 on a CD player.
She also spent some money on a table lamp and had $437
left. How much did she spend on the table lamp?
Ans:__________________
14) Benson has 398 matchboxes.
Guowei has 56 fewer matchboxes than Benson.
(a) How many matchboxes does Guowei have?
(b) How many matchboxes do they have altogether?
Ans: a)_________________
b)________________
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15) Rani’s height is 138 cm. Dawei is 18 cm taller than Rani.
Lucy is 27 cm shorter than Dawei. What is Lucy’s height?
Lucy’s height is ________________ cm.
16) Jeremy spent $250 of his savings to buy a model fighter jet.
Then, his father gave him $180 and he had $385.
How much money did Jeremy have at first?
Ans: ________________
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17) Mark had 324 toy cars. He gave 65 toy cars to Daryl.
Then they had the same number of toy cars.
How many toy cars did Daryl have at first?
Ans: ________________
18) There are 367 green beans in Bowl A and 478 green beans
in Bowl B. How many more green beans must be put into
Bowl A so that both the bowls will have the same number of
beans?
Ans: ________________
