Video Transcript
Use the following place value table
to find the result of 5,465 plus 2,324.
In this question, we have to add
together two four-digit numbers. Both numbers have a thousands,
hundreds, tens, and ones digit. And we’re told to use the place
value table to help us add. When we’re adding two four-digit
numbers, we always start by adding the ones first. There are five ones in the number
5,465 and four ones in the number 2,324. And we know that five plus four
equals nine.
Now we can add in the tens
column. We’ve got six 10s, and we need to
add two more. Six 10s plus two 10s gives us a
total of eight 10s. Now we need to add the
hundreds. We’ve got four 100s, and we need to
add three. Four plus three is seven, giving as
a total of seven 100s. Finally, we need to add in the
thousands column. What is five plus two? It’s seven. So we have a total of seven
1,000s.
5,465 plus 2,324 equals 7,789. We added our two numbers using the
place value table to help.
