Word Problems on Subtraction

Q. There are 33, 289 birds in a bird sanctuary. 5, 456 birds moved to a colder place during the summers. Find the number of birds left in the sanctuary.

1. 27, 133
2. 27, 233
3. 37, 133
4. 38, 133

Q. What should be added to $64$ to obtain $78$ ?

1. 14

Q. An old dictionary with 10, 546 pages is revised to 8, 356 pages. How many pages are reduced in the revised version?

1. 1, 990
2. 1, 190
3. 1, 900
4. 1, 990

Q. Maria was recognised for her social work. She was awarded $\$90$ in the prize money. She donated $\$35$ to a charity from her reward money. How much prizemoney does she have left with?

1. $\$55$
2. $\$45$
3. $\$35$

Q. Mark ordered 19 pizzas and he decided to give 5 pizzas to his sister Darcy. How many pizzas are left over for Mark to eat?

pizzas

Q. 37, 650 cookies are purchased for distribution on Children's Day. If 28, 820 cookies are distributed, how many cookies are left?

1. 8, 830
2. 9, 830
3. 8, 830
4. 8, 230

Q. Ginny got $\$25$ from her father as her pocket money. She spent $\$5$ on buying chocolates. The amount of money, she is left with, is dollars.

Q. What should be added to $55$ to obtain $82$?

1. $17$
2. $33$
3. $137$
4. $27$

Q. An exam is held for 956 marks. Rose scores 643. Find the number of marks she lost in her exam.

1. 323
2. 333
3. 343
4. 313

Q. Paul has 456 horses in his horse shelter. He sold 199 horses to ruler of his region. How many horses are left in Paul's horse shelter?

1. 257
2. 357
3. 256

Q. A company has 856 employees. There are 435 female employees and the remaining employees are male. Find the number of male employees.

1. 1, 291
2. 351
3. 421
4. 642

Q. Joey has $26$ erasers with him. If he gave $8$ erasers to his sister, then how many erasers are left with him $?$

1. $28$
2. $18$
3. $12$
4. $28$

Q. Mark and his friends baked 425 cookies for a fundraiser. They were able to sell 311 cookies. How many cookies were left unsold?

1. 114

Q.

Subtract $3281739$ from $7100503$.

Q. should be added to 72, 865 to make it equal to 537, 462.

1. $464,597$
2. $464,507$
3. $464,607$

Q. If $378$ is taken away from $645$, then the difference will be equal to

Q. Jerry has 648 chocolates. 324 of those are bar chocolates, and the rest are round ones. How many round chocolates does she have?

1. 324
2. 225
3. 234
4. 345

Q. A person jogs 750 yd and walks for 286 yd in a park. How much distance did he cover more while jogging than while walking?

1. 334 yd
2. 224 yd
3. 324 yd
4. 443 yd

Q. Joe is thinking of a number that is 176, 896 less than 354, 768. The number he's thinking of is

1. $177,872$
2. $177,972$
3. $277,872$

Q.

The difference between two numbers is $130097$. If the smaller number is $341793$, find the other.