Solution - Long subtraction
6,003
Step-by-step explanation
1. Rewrite the numbers from top to bottom, aligned by their place values
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | |||
| - | 5 | 6 | ||
2. Subtract the numbers using long subtraction method
Because the upper digit (2) in the ones column is too small to get a positive difference, borrow 1 from the digit (9) in the next number place which becomes (8) and get (12).
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 8 | 12 | |||
| 6 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | |||
| - | 5 | 6 | ||
Subtract the numbers in the ones column from the top number:
12-3-6=3
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 8 | 12 | |||
| 6 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | |||
| - | 5 | 6 | ||
| 3 |
Subtract the numbers in the tens column from the top number:
8-3-5=0
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 8 | 12 | |||
| 6 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | |||
| - | 5 | 6 | ||
| 0 | 3 |
Write 0 in the hundreds place.
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 8 | 12 | |||
| 6 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | |||
| - | 5 | 6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 3 |
Write 6 in the thousands place.
| Place value | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 8 | 12 | |||
| 6 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | |||
| - | 5 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
The solution is: 6,003
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