Addition Word Problems
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Lisa and Anya are on the same soccer team and have a game today. Lisa brings 4 water bottles and Anya bring 3 water bottles to the game. How many water bottles did they bring all together?
Step 1: Find out what we need
to do. The problem says
all together, so we
should use addition.
Step 2: Add Lisa’s water bottles
to Anya’s water bottles:
3 + 4 = 7
Step 3: Lisa and Anya have 7
water bottles combined.
Gloria and Rahul are playing ice hockey with each other to practice for an upcoming tournament. In their practice, Rahul scores 7 times and Gloria scores 4 times. How many times did score in total?
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