How can you express 997 so that the expression 9972 can be calculated using an algebreaic identity?
1000−3
Whenever a number close to a power of 10 is given, we choose the respective power of 10 as the first number.
Here, 1000 will be the first number. This is because 10002 is easy to calculate.
The second number will be 3 since 997 is 3 less than 1000.
Thus the expression is
997=1000−3.