Name Class Date

Practice Form K
1-5 Adding and Subtracting Real Numbers

Use a number line to find each sum.

1. 2 + 5 2. 4 + 6 3. 7 + (3)

4. 5 + (1) 5. 4 + 2 6. 5 + (8)

7. Is the sum of two negative numbers positive or negative?

8. Writing Is the sum 4 + 2 positive or negative? How do you know?

Find each sum.

9. 12 + (4) 10. 22 + (10) 11. 25 + 27

12. 21 + 43 13. 15 + (20) 14. 25 + (25)

1 4
15. 1.5 + 3.6 16. 2.2 + (16.7) 17.
7 7

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Practice (continued) Form K

1-5 Adding and Subtracting Real Numbers

18. Which addition problem is equivalent to 5 (8)?

A. 5 + 8 C. 5 + (8)
B. 5 + 8 D. 5 + (8)

Find each difference.

19. 6 12 20. 5 6 21. 7 (10)

22. 26 (14) 23. 30 50 24. 13 (13)

7 2 1 1
25. 1.2 (1.3) 26. 27.
9 9 2 4

28. A football team gained 5 yards and then lost 7 yards. What real number
represents the teams position relative to its original position?

29. The temperature at 6:00 P.M. was 3C. At midnight, the temperature was 2C.
What real number represents the change in temperature?

30. Rose had $60 in her checking account. She deposited a check for $20 that she
received from her grandfather. Then she wrote a check for $35. What is the
balance in her checking account?

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