Question

Ranjit scores 80 marks in English and 95 marks in Hindi. What is the total score in the subjects?

Answer 1

Hint: To solve this problem, we must be aware about the basic arithmetic (in this case addition) operations. Total score would simply be addition of the marks obtained in both subjects.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Before solving the problem, we will briefly try to understand the basics of addition. The addition of two whole numbers is the total amount of those values combined. To explain this, we take an example. Suppose, Harish has 5 apples, Punya has 10 apples and Manish has 10 apples. Now, suppose they gather all the apples they have together, we find the total apples obtained by performing addition. Thus, the number of apples collected would be 5+10+10 = 25 apples.
With the basic terminologies of addition in mind, we now start solving the above question. It is given that Ranjit scores 80 marks in English and 95 marks in Hindi. Now, we are required to find the total score, thus, we do the addition of scores as done in the above example with apples. Thus, we get,
Total score = 80 + 95 = 175
Hence, the correct answer is 175.

Note: Although in the problem, we have carried out the addition operation for two things, one can always extend it for multiple things. Thus, we can carry the similar procedure if we had marks in 5 subjects (say 50,60,70,80 and 90). We can again get the total score as 50+60+70+80+90 = 350.