Arithmetic Grade Three

Lesson One hundred seventy-two: Word Problems


When it's hot the temperture is high and when it is cold the temperature is low. For instance, a hot day might be ninety degrees and a cold day might be thirty-eight degrees. During the day the temperature goes up and down.


	Early one morning it is 52 degrees. The
	temperature goes up 25 degrees in by
	noon. What is the temperature at noon?

In this problem we start with the temperature at 52 degrees. It goes up 25 degrees and so we know that it is an addition problem:

	52 + 25 = 77


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