IXL | Subtract numbers up to three digits: word problems

A big truck is carrying bananas. There are 327 ripe bananas. There are 179 fewer unripe bananas. How many unripe bananas are there?

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A party store sold 319 red balloons and 445 pink balloons for Valentine's Day. How many fewer red balloons were sold?

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A party store sold 319 red balloons and 445 pink balloons for Valentine's Day. You need to find how many fewer red balloons were sold. It can be helpful to draw a model.

pink balloons

445

319

red balloons

how many fewer

The model shows you can subtract to find how many fewer.

The store sold 126 fewer red balloons.

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Lesson: Multi-digit subtraction

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H.6Subtract numbers up to three digits

P.10Subtraction word problems - up to two digits

Lesson: Multi-digit subtraction

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