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Exercises: Subtraction

With these exercises you can practice subtracting natural numbers. Can you do them all?

  1. 1

    Compute the following differences.

    1. 55 - 6


    2. 8 - 4


    3. 19 - 2


    4. 33 - 22


    5. 10 - 0


    6. 43 - 23 - 15


    7. 21 - 4 - 7 - 10


  2. 2

    Compute the following differences.

    1. 231823 - 18


    2. 452945 - 29


    3. 141014 - 10


    4. 191519 - 15


    5. 574657 - 46


  3. 3

    Compute the following differences

    1. 45121045 - 12 - 10


    2. 5813458 - 13 - 4


    3. 87651287 - 65 - 12


    4. 90155890 - 15 - 58


    5. 87255087 - 25 - 50


    6. 96372596 - 37 - 25


  4. 4

    Compute the following differences.

    1. 161016 - 10


    2. 171417 - 14


    3. 252225 - 22


    4. 474247 - 42


    5. 575657 - 56


    6. 898189 - 81


    7. 787378 - 73


  5. 5

    Compute the following differences.

    1. 524382524 - 382


    2. 876351876 - 351


    3. 954733954 - 733


    4. 789599789 - 599


    5. 222189222 - 189


    6. 596374596 - 374


    7. 658157658 - 157


    8. 352131352 - 131


  6. 6

    Compute the following differences

    1. 741243087412 - 4308


    2. 337122503371 - 2250


    3. 534243575342 - 4357


    4. 239518522395 - 1852


    5. 856043208560 - 4320


    6. 459913274599 - 1327


  7. 7

    Compute the following differences.

    1. 25825 - 8


    2. 856285 - 62


    3. 643864 - 38


    4. 333189333 - 189


    5. 587292587 - 292


  8. 8

    Suppose, you have collected a total of 1717 Easter eggs, and already eaten 55 of them. How many Easter eggs do you then have left?


  9. 9

    Luise collects stamps. In her collection she already has 587587 stamps. When she sorts the collection, she discovers that 134134 kinds of stamps appear twice. So she sorts them out and distributes them among her friends. How many stamps does she have after that?


  10. 10

    Carla plays field hockey. Each season, her team has 17 17 games. This season, she already played 55 games. How many games does Carla have left for this season?


  11. 11

    Select all terms whose value is 55.

  12. 12

    Select all terms whose value is 89.

  13. 13

    Select all terms whose value is 67.


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