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1. It was Easter and the Jones family was hunting eggs. Can you figure out how many eggs were found? Nancy found six green eggs and five blue eggs. Bill found four purple eggs and two green eggs. Fred found eight pink eggs and two yellow eggs. How many eggs were found?

 

  

2. Nancy found twelve eggs more than Bill and 1 fewer egg than Fred. Tom found 8 eggs more than Bill and Bill found 24 eggs. How many eggs did each person find?

 

 

  3. Sarah had to dye the eggs for the whole Holden family. Can you figure out how many eggs she dyed? She dyed 8 eggs for Nancy, three for Sara Lynn, two for Samantha, and six for Bill. How many eggs were dyed?

 

 

 

4. Grandma Holden decided to make the Easter Egg Hunt more interesting this year. She decided to put money in plastic eggs this year. Harry found 25 cents more than Sam and 10 cents less than Bill. Bill found $1.35. Sally found 50 cents more than Sam and 25 cents more than Harry. How much money did each child find?

 

  

 

5. Bill, Tom, and Alice went fishing over the Easter holiday. Can you figure out how many fish each one caught? Bill caught 23 more fish than Alice and Alice caught 12 less than Tom. Tom caught 46 fish.

 

 

  

6. Alicia, David, Darrail, and Sam all love jelly beans. During the Easter holidays, they had a jelly bean eating contest. Alicia ate 6 more jelly beans than Darrail and 4 less than David. Darrail ate 27 jelly beans. Sam ate 10 more than David and fourteen more than Alicia. How many beans did each one eat?