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Exercise 4.4

1. Solve the following word problems.

(a) There are 436 students in an examina on hall. If 235 of them are boys, how
many girls are there?
(b) Library A has 2,754 books. Library B has 3,263 books. Which library has more

books and by how much?
(c) The sum of two numbers is 6,495. If one number is 2,439, what is the other
number?
(d) A shopkeeper bought 158 kg tomatoes. He sold 63 kg tomatoes. If 9 kg tomatoes
were ro en and had to be thrown away, how many kilograms of tomatoes
were le with the shopkeeper?

(e) Out of 4,114 students who registered for a drawing compe on from various
schools, only 2,978 students par cipated in the compe on. How many
students did not par cipate?

2. Frame two word problems for the following. Also, solve the problems to fi nd the
diff erence.

(a) 3,215 – 1,278 (b) 9,473 – 4,038

3. Solve the following.

(a) 38 + 746 + 98 – 138 (b) 365 + 268 – 342
(c) 3,647 + 5,326 – 4,755 (d) 6,237 + 3,008 – 1,452 – 378

Review Exercise

1. Subtract the given numbers.
(a) 348 from 569 (b) 539 from 768 (c) 547 from 6,782

(d) 4,328 from 9,056 (e) 3,928 from 8,753 (f) 5,434 from 7,381

2. Find the following diff erences.

(a) 2,465 – 769 (b) 2,934 – 865 (c) 6,767 – 5,400 (d) 9,651 – 7,655

3. Do as instructed.

(a) Take away 2,374 from 7,523.

(b) By how much is the diff erence of 3,598 – 1,367 greater than the diff erence of
2,923 – 1,143?

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