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Alex and Becca are having a party. They invited 8 girls and five boys.

They want to have a pint of ice cream for each person and themselves.

How many pints of ice cream do they need to buy?

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Ben went to the store to buy ice cream cones for his family. Kellie, Jon, Kristin, Trevor, Kim and Anna wanted chocolate ice cream. Ruth, Tim, Joel, Rachel and Chris wanted cookie dough ice cream. Isaac wanted banana ice cream. How many ice cream cones does

Ben need to buy?

It is Kellie’s birthday party.

She invited two grandpas and three grandmas and six kids. She wants to buy a sundae dish for each person.

How many sundae dishes will she have to buy?

Jon is inviting friends over to make banana splits.

He invites nine boys and 9 girls. Each person needs one banana to make the treat. Jon wants one too.

How many bananas does Jon need to buy?

Julie is making cherry sundaes for her granddaughters.

Ella wants three cherries. Emma wants seven cherries and Addy wants four.

How many cherries does Julie need to buy?

Kim is going to have an ice cream party at her school.

There are seven boys and 10 girls plus Kim.

How many ice cream cones does she need to bring to the party?

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Chris ordered four scoops ofcherry ice-cream in a bowl.

Then he ordered two scoops ofvanilla ice cream for his dog, Winnie.

How many scoops of ice creamdid Chis buy?

Anna and Trevor went to the ice cream stand.

Trevor wanted four scoops of cookie dough ice cream and Anna wanted three scoops of chocolate mint.

How many scoops of ice cream did Anna and Trevor buy?

Kim and Ruth went to the ice cream truck.

They needed to buy a sundaes for themselves and their eight nieces.

How many sundaes did they buy?

Joel wanted to buy ice cream for himself and all of his friends.

Six of his friends wanted strawberry ice cream. 6 wanted chocolate.

How much ice cream did Joel have to buy?

Addy is going to school and wants to bring a bowl of ice cream for each person in her class.

There are nine boys and seven girls.

How many bowls of ice-cream does Addy need to bring?

Emma’s dance class is going out to ice cream.

There are six boys and 11 girls including Emma.

How many ice cream cones does Emma’s teacher need to buy?

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Annabelle got into the cherries.

There were 20 cherries in the jar and she ate 11.

How many cherries were left?

Tim wanted to buy ice cream.

The ice cream truck had 16 pints of ice cream.

Tim bought six.

How many pints of ice cream did the truck have left?

Isaac and Ariella wanted to make a banana splits.

There were 17 bananas on the table.

If they used two bananas how many bananas were left on the table?

Ruth needed nuts to make her peanut butter sundaes.

She had 18 nuts and used 13 nuts to make the ice cream.

How many nuts were left?

Anna had a party.

She bought 15 cans of whipped cream to make sundaes.

They used nine cans.

How many cans of whipped cream were left?

Kristin has 20 cones.

She gives four to her sisters.

How many cones does Kristin have left?

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Ben has 18 spoons.

His dog hides six.

His brothers use four to eat ice cream.

How many spoons does Ben have left?

Trevor buys 12 pints of ice cream.

If Anna eats two and Chris eats three.

How many pints of ice cream does Trevor have left?

There are 19 cherries in the jar.

Emma eats four. Addy eats nine.

How many cherries are left for Ella?

Kellie scoops 16 scoops of ice cream.

Jon eats 3. Isaac eats 2.

How many scoops of ice cream are left?

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Hank makes an huge ice cream sundae with 16 scoops of ice cream.

He shares it with Bill. They each eat two scoops.

How many scoops are left?

Julie has 19 peanuts.

She uses 3 peanuts on Emma’s cone and three on Ella’s cone.

How many peanuts does she have left?

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Answer Key

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