Word problems with temperatures

Difficulty Starter · Set tsb4rk

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1
At dawn the temperature was -5°C. By noon it had risen 11 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
2
At dawn the temperature was -4°C. By noon it had risen 13 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
3
At dawn the temperature was -4°C. By noon it had risen 12 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
4
At dawn the temperature was -5°C. By noon it had risen 4 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
5
At dawn the temperature was -1°C. By noon it had risen 10 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
6
At dawn the temperature was -8°C. By noon it had risen 7 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
7
At dawn the temperature was -7°C. By noon it had risen 9 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
8
At dawn the temperature was -5°C. By noon it had risen 12 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
9
At dawn the temperature was -3°C. By noon it had risen 8 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
10
At dawn the temperature was -8°C. By noon it had risen 6 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
11
At dawn the temperature was -8°C. By noon it had risen 7 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
12
At dawn the temperature was -3°C. By noon it had risen 10 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
13
At dawn the temperature was -7°C. By noon it had risen 14 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
14
At dawn the temperature was -1°C. By noon it had risen 12 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
15
At dawn the temperature was -7°C. By noon it had risen 3 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
16
At dawn the temperature was -1°C. By noon it had risen 11 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
17
At dawn the temperature was -3°C. By noon it had risen 5 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
18
At dawn the temperature was -2°C. By noon it had risen 12 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
19
At dawn the temperature was -8°C. By noon it had risen 16 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?
20
At dawn the temperature was -5°C. By noon it had risen 13 degrees. What was it at noon, in °C?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 16.
86% of them cross zero on the way.
14% of them come out negative.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the rise was taken away; a temperature that rises moves up the scale, towards zero and past it.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 107 different ones, 45% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

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