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Problems with an Unknown Start

Solve each problem. Show your work. Write an equation.

  • 1 Kira had some dolphin stickers. For her birthday, her mom gave her 2 more strips of 10 dolphin stickers. Now Kira has 55 dolphin stickers. How many dolphin stickers did Kira have to start?

  • 2 Jake had some wizard stickers. He gave 20 wizard stickers to Sally. Now Jake has 28 wizard stickers left. How many wizard stickers did Jake have to start?


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Coins, Number Strings, and Story Problems Unit 2 Attributes of Shapes and Parts of a Whole Unit 3 How Many Stickers? How Many Cents? Unit 4 Pockets, Teeth, and Guess My Rule Unit 5 How Many Tens? How Many Hundreds? Unit 6 How Far Can You Jump? Unit 7 Partners, Teams, and Other Groups Unit 8 Enough for the Class? Enough for the Grade?