Solution - Long subtraction
4,900
Step-by-step explanation
1. Rewrite the numbers from top to bottom, aligned by their place values
Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |
- | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
2. Subtract the numbers using long subtraction method
Subtract the numbers in the ones column from the top number:
6-6=0
Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |
- | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
0 |
Subtract the numbers in the tens column from the top number:
7-7=0
Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |
- | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
0 | 0 |
Because the upper digit (4) in the hundreds column is too small to get a positive difference, borrow 1 from the digit (5) in the next number place which becomes (4) and get (14).
Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
4 | 14 | |||
5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |
- | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
0 | 0 |
Subtract the numbers in the hundreds column from the top number:
14-5=9
Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
4 | 14 | |||
5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |
- | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
9 | 0 | 0 |
Write 4 in the thousands place.
Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
4 | 14 | |||
5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | |
- | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
4 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
The solution is: 4,900
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