Solution - Long subtraction
1,231
Step-by-step explanation
1. Rewrite the numbers from top to bottom, aligned by their place values
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |
| - | 2 | 4 | ||
2. Subtract the numbers using long subtraction method
Subtract the numbers in the ones column from the top number:
5-4=1
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |
| - | 2 | 4 | ||
| 1 |
Subtract the numbers in the tens column from the top number:
5-2=3
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |
| - | 2 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 1 |
Write 2 in the hundreds place.
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |
| - | 2 | 4 | ||
| 2 | 3 | 1 |
Write 1 in the thousands place.
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |
| - | 2 | 4 | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
The solution is: 1,231
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