Integer Word Problems
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Solve the following word problems. Explain how you got your answer.
1. The temperature changed from 25 degrees to -8 degrees in three months during the winter.
What is the difference of these temperatures? Show your work.
What was your first step in solving this problem?
2. In three plays, the football team gained 10 yards and lost 22 yards. If they started at the
zero line, what line in the football team at?
Show how you would solve this problem using a number line.
3. And ice cream company reported a net profit of $24,000 in 2002 and a net loss of
$11,000 in 2003. How much did the company’s profits change from 2002 and 2003.
4. On Wednesday night in St. Petersburg, Russia, the temperature is -11 degrees. On the same
night in Bombay, India, the temperature is 17 degrees. What is the difference in temperature?
How would you tell someone how to solve this problem using integer chips?
5. The old lady’s cat was caught up in a tree. The cat was 8 feet up, got scared and then ran up 10
more feet. Finally, it climbed down 16 feet. How high was the cat at this point?
6. Stephen climbed down the steep cliff 46 feet to get to the stream for a quick swim. A flat rock
was 17 feet up from the stream. He climbed up there to rest after his swim. How far did he
climb in all?
7. The low temperature of -16 broke a previous record low of -11. How much lower than the
record was the temperature?
8. The top of a tree is 35 feet above ground level. The roots reach down 22 feet below ground
level. What is the difference between the top of the tree and the bottom of the roots?
9. Kelsey was a playing a game. She gains 12 points, loses 8 points, gains 4 points, and then looses
9 points. What is her total score?
10. Ted owes John @23 and borrows @12. How much does Ted owe John? Draw a picture to
show what this would look like.
11. A submarine submerged at a depth of -40 feet dives 57 feet more. What is the new depth
of the submarine?
Use a number line to in intervals of 5 to show this.
12. Helena borrowed $189 from her parents to buy an electric guitar. She paid back $56 last week
and $64 this week. How much does Helena still owe her parents?
Explain how you started this problem.
13. New Orleans is 6 feet below sea level. The highest point in Driskill Mountain, Louisiana, is 541
feet higher than New Orleans. How high is Driskill Mountain?
14. And airplane is 20,000 feet drops 2,500 feet in altitude. What is the new altitude?