Solution - Long subtraction
6,412,501
Step-by-step explanation
1. Rewrite the numbers from top to bottom, aligned by their place values
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
2. Subtract the numbers using long subtraction method
Subtract the numbers in the ones column from the top number:
7-6=1
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 1 |
Subtract the numbers in the tens column from the top number:
2-2=0
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 0 | 1 |
Write 5 in the hundreds place.
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 5 | 0 | 1 |
Write 2 in the thousands place.
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Write 1 in the ten thousands place.
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Write 4 in the hundred thousands place.
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Write 6 in the millions place.
| Place value | millions | hundred thousands | ten thousands | thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
The solution is: 6,412,501
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