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EXERCISE 2.6

Solve the word problems.

1. A trade fair had 37414 visitors in the first year and 64879 in the second
year. How many more people visited the trade fair in the second year?

2. A hospital treated 89529 patients in March and 57518 patients in
February. How many more patients did it treat in March than February?

3. A garrison had 328844 soldiers. Out of this 45712 soldiers were ordered
to go to the border. How many soldiers are left in the garrison now?

4. Police force of a state has 86787 men. Till last year they had 65071

men. How many more men does the police force have now?

5. In a election between two candidates Mr. Iqbal got 62945 votes and Mr.
Kumar got 66976 votes. What was the victory margin of Mr. Kumar?

6. In a poultry farm 287692 eggs were collected during the year. Out of
these 57696 eggs were cracked so could not be sold. How many eggs
could be sold?

7. Till last year a car had done 65874 km. Now its odometer reads 92958

km. How many kilometres did the car travel in past one year?

8. In an election 77657 valid votes were caste. 42248 votes were in favour
of the winning candidate. How many votes did the losing candidate get?

9. Present population of a town is 459257. During last ten years population
of this town has increased by 312189. What was the population of this
town ten years ago?

10. Sum of two numbers is 64282. If one of them is 52148, find the other

number.

Properties of Subtraction

Property 1: Let us subtract 0 from 46245.

46245 – 0 = 46245

We get back the same number 46245.

When we subtract 0 from a number, the difference is

the number itself.

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