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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Arithmetic Word Problems, 2

Category: Arithmetic

"Published in Vacaville, California, USA"

You collect baseball cards. Suppose you start out with 16. Since you're nice, you give John 3 baseball cards. How many baseball cards do you have at the end?

Solution:

The given word problem is about the application of four basic operations. At the start, you have 16 balls. 

If you give 3 baseball cards to John, then you will have 16 - 3 = 13 baseball cards left at the end.