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Example 4: A fruit mart has 4926 apples. 1028 of these are rotten.
Find the number of good apples.

Solution:
Th H T O

8 11 16

Number of apples in the store 4 9 2 6

Number of rotten apples – 1 0 2 8

Number of good apples 3 8 9 8

Thus there are 3898 good apples.

EXERCISE 3.3

1. A goods train was carrying 8197 bags of wheat. Out of this 5076 bags
were off loaded at a station. How many bags of wheat are left in the goods

train now?

2. There are 7435 males and 6312 females in a small town. How many more
males than females does the town have?

3. 8080 bricks were brought to make a wall. However only 6402 bricks were
utilized. How many bricks were left behind?

4. In a stadium there are 7500 seats. On a particular day, 5392 persons saw
the match. How many seats were vacant?

5. I think of a number. If you add 1379 to it you get 6287. What is the
number?

6. Last month 9775 eggs were produced in an egg farm. However 1525 were

cracked so could not be sold. How many eggs could be sold?

7. There were 5245 bags of wheat in a store. 3794 bags were sold during

one week. How many bags were left in the store?

8. 5325 plants were planted in a Van Mahotsava campaign. 267 of these did
not survive. How many plants survived?

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