Word problems: one-step subtraction

Difficulty Stretch · Set ftt5ns

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1
195 seats are set out and 81 of them are taken. How many are still free?
2
25 seats are set out and 49 of them are taken. How many are still free?
3
121 seats are set out and 3 of them are taken. How many are still free?
4
205 seats are set out and 79 of them are taken. How many are still free?
5
81 seats are set out and 89 of them are taken. How many are still free?
6
394 seats are set out and 22 of them are taken. How many are still free?
7
220 seats are set out and 41 of them are taken. How many are still free?
8
22 seats are set out and 96 of them are taken. How many are still free?
9
325 seats are set out and 35 of them are taken. How many are still free?
10
246 seats are set out and 59 of them are taken. How many are still free?
11
35 seats are set out and 92 of them are taken. How many are still free?
12
395 seats are set out and 30 of them are taken. How many are still free?
13
322 seats are set out and 92 of them are taken. How many are still free?
14
395 seats are set out and 15 of them are taken. How many are still free?
15
352 seats are set out and 42 of them are taken. How many are still free?
16
259 seats are set out and 97 of them are taken. How many are still free?
17
182 seats are set out and 74 of them are taken. How many are still free?
18
172 seats are set out and 2 of them are taken. How many are still free?
19
279 seats are set out and 20 of them are taken. How many are still free?
20
227 seats are set out and 3 of them are taken. How many are still free?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 399.
Every problem in it will take one step.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the numbers were added; the seats that are taken come out of the total.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 239 different ones, 100% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 2 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.