Solve Vertical Subtraction: 274 minus 86 Step-by-Step

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Solution Steps

00:00 Solve

00:03 Each time we consider borrowing 2 digits, and then we place

00:07 4 is less than 6

00:11 Therefore we subtract 1 from the tens place and add this amount to the ones place

00:17 So now instead of 4 we will have 14

00:24 We subtract the ones from the ones plus the ten

00:29 We place in the ones place

00:33 6 is less than 8

00:39 Therefore we subtract 1 from the hundreds place and add this amount to the tens place

00:42 So now instead of 6 we will have 16

00:50 We subtract the tens from the tens plus the ten

00:53 We place in the tens place

00:55 We place 0 in the missing digits

00:58 We subtract hundreds from hundreds, and place in hundreds

01:01 And this is the solution to the problem

Step-by-Step Solution

To solve this subtraction problem, we will follow these steps:

Step 1: Line up the numbers vertically to align the digits by place value.
Step 2: Start from the units column, note $4 - 6$ requires borrowing from the tens place.
- Since 4 is smaller than 6, we borrow 1 from the next higher place value. The tens digit (7) becomes 6, and the units digit becomes $14$ .
Step 3: Subtract in the units column: $14 - 6 = 8$ .
Step 4: Move to the tens column, subtract $6 - 8$ . Since we borrowed from the hundreds place, it simplifies to $16 - 8 = 8$ .
Step 5: The hundreds digit in the minuend is $2$ , reduced by 1 due to previous borrowing, makes the effective hundreds $1$ .
Step 6: Finally, in the hundreds column, subtract $1 - 0 = 1$ .

Let's summarize the steps calculations as follows:

$\begin{aligned} 274& \\ - \ 86& \\ \overline{\phantom{2}188} \\ \end{aligned}$

Upon completion, the final result is $188$ .