E.4 Subtract two multi-digit numbers: Word problems
A wildlife park had 6,425 visitors on Saturday. By lunchtime, 2,738 visitors had entered the park.
How many visitors entered after lunchtime?
visitors
A factory made 8,000 toy cars. It shipped 3,476 of them to stores.
How many toy cars are still at the factory?
toy cars
A school collected 5,304 cans for a recycling project. Another school collected 2,867 cans.
How many more cans did the first school collect?
cans
A concert hall has 10,250 seats. For a concert, 8,675 seats were filled.
How many seats were empty?
seats
A delivery truck started a trip with 15,000 packages. It delivered 8,946 packages.
How many packages are still on the truck?
packages
A warehouse stored 7,003 boxes. It shipped 48 boxes this morning.
How many boxes remain?
boxes
A theater sold 3,640 tickets this month. Last month, it sold 95 fewer tickets.
How many tickets did the theater sell last month?
tickets
A hiking challenge is 9,100 steps long. Ava has 63 steps left to complete the challenge.
How many steps has Ava already walked?
steps
A museum received 6,500 postcards for an exhibit. It gave 89 postcards to another museum.
How many postcards remain?
postcards
A robot has traveled 4,781 inches through a maze. It needs to travel 36 more inches to reach the exit.
How many inches long is the entire route?
A cargo ship is carrying 7,314 containers. At the next port, 27 containers are unloaded.
How many containers remain on the ship?
A digital scoreboard showed 5,601 points. After a scoring error was found, 92 points were removed.
What should the scoreboard show now?
A spacecraft is 8,120 miles from its destination. After traveling 45 miles, how many miles does it still have to travel?
A printing machine was supposed to print 3,906 labels. It stopped with 73 labels still to print.
How many labels had already been printed?
A mountain peak is 6,852 feet above sea level. A lookout point is 66 feet lower than the peak.
What is the elevation of the lookout point?
A rescue helicopter started its trip with 6,215 pounds of fuel and supplies. During the trip, it used 847 pounds.
How many pounds of fuel and supplies remained?
A nature center counted 9,304 butterfly sightings this year. Last year, there were 685 fewer sightings.
How many butterfly sightings were recorded last year?
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