Question

Subtract the following and verify your answers by suitable addition.

$42786-40589$

Answer 1

Step 1 : Subtracting the numbers

$$\begin{gathered} 42786 \\ -\underline{40589} \\ \underline{2197} \end{gathered}$$

Step 2: Verifying the result

The result can be verfified by adding the result to the subtrahend.

Here, the result is $2197$ and subtrahend is $40589$

So,

$$\begin{gathered} 40589 \\ +\underline{2197} \\ \underline{42786} \end{gathered}$$

Hence, subtraction of $42786-40589$ is $2197$ .