Question

While playing a game, Sarah lost at a stage resulting in a total of 342,105 points taken away from her total earned points of 867,957. How many earned points were left on her scoreboard?

• A. $525,852$
• B. $525,802$
• C. $425,852$

Answer 1

The correct option is A $525,852$

To find: $867,957-342,105$

First aligning both the numbers according to Place Value table,


For doing subtraction,
Ones digit of subtrahend must be subtracted from ones digit of minuend, tens digit of subtrahend must be subtracted by tens digit of minuend and so on.

So, first subtracting the digits at Ones place,


Now subtracting the digits at Tens place, we get


Similarly, subtracting rest places digits with the corresponding digits is depicted in figure below,


Therefore, $867,957-342,105=525,852.$
(a) is the correct option, 525,852 points were left in her scoreboard.