Question

Ben buys $800$ chocolates on his birthday. He distributes the chocolates among his friends and is left with $257$ chocolates at the end. How many chocolates did he distribute?

• A. $333$
• B. $653$
• C. $673$
• D. $543$

Answer 1

The correct option is D $543$

Given, Ben buys $800$ chocolates on his birthday and is left with $257$ chocolates after distributing them.
So, the number of chocolates distributed by Ben $=800-257$

Let’s represent each of these numbers based on their place value and subtract them.
$800$ can be decomposed as $800+0+0$.
$257$ can be decomposed as $200+50+7$.


So, Ben distributed $543$ chocolates on his birthday.