BLUE BELLS MODEL SCHOOL

SUBJECT- MATH
GRADE -III
DATE: 14.7.21 Ex 2.4(Note Book Work) PAGE 31

Solving Story Sums by Using Addition properties

 Story Sums have keywords that give you clues

how to solve the word problem.

👉These are some Addition keywords:

This Photo

Sum of, Total of, Plus, Increased by, More, More

by
Unknown

than, Added to, Gained by, Raised by, Altogether, In

Author is
licensed
all, under

Example :

Q. There are 1675 frogs in one lake and 2453 frogs in another
lake how many frogs in all ?
T H T O
No. of frogs in one lake 1 6 7 5

No. of frogs in another lake 2 4 5 3 1 1

No. of frogs In All 4 1 2 8

Answer :Total numbers of frogs in all : 4128 Q1.

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There
are 121 people in a compartment of a train. In another
compartment there are 112 people. How many people are there
in both the compartments?
 T H T O
No of people in one compartment 1 2 1

No of people in another compartment 1 1 2

No of people in both compartments 2 3 3

Answer: There are 233 people in both compartment

Q2. There were 650 packets of milk in a dairy . 297 more packets of
milk were brought. How many packets of milk are there in a dairy
now ?

T 1H T O
No of milk packets in a dairy 6 5 0
No of more packets bought in dairy 2 9 7
Total no of packets in dairy 9 4 7
Answer : There are 947 packets of milk in a dairy

Q3. There were 1499 pencils in a carton . 788 pencils were added .how
many pencils are there in all ?

1Th H 1 T1 O
No of pencils in a carton 1 4 9 9
No of pencils added 7 8 8
Total no of pencils are 2 2 8 7
Answer : 2287 total pencils are in carton

Q4. Meera gave 1 toffee each to 125 students of class 3 and was left
with 37 toffees . How many toffees did she have ?

Th H T1 O
No of students got toffee 1 2 5
No. Toffee was left with Meera + 3 7
Total no of toffees are 1 6 2
Answer : Total no of toffees are 162

Q5. A library bought 2947 books of poems and 5050 story books from
the world book fair .How many books did the library buy in all?

Th H T O
No. of poem books 2 9 4 7
No of story books 5 0 5 0
Total no of books are 7 9 9 7
Answer : total No of books in library is 7997