Example 3

Tasmin has £305 in her bank account. She uses £146 to

buy a television. How much money is left in her account?
1. You need to subtract 146 from 305, so set out the subtraction as usual.
2. In the column furthest to the right, 9
2 1 2 1 1
305 305 305
5 is less than 6 so you need to borrow
– 146 – 146 – 146
from the middle column. But there’s
a 0 there, so you have to borrow from
the column furthest to the left first. 9 9 9
2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1
3. Once the borrowing is sorted, 305 305 305
subtract each column as usual. – 146 – 146 – 146
9 59 159

So she has £159 left.

Exercise 1
Q1 Copy and work out the following.
a) 23 b) 122 c) 243
+ 56 + 97 + 178
d) 73 e) 181 f) 233
– 27 – 35 – 187

Q2 Work out the following.

a) 342 + 679 b) 604 + 288 c) 506 – 278
d) 2513 + 241 e) 2942 – 324 f) 4003 – 1235

Q3 Work out the following.

a) 41 + 112 + 213 b) 764 + 138 – 345 c) 123 + 478 + 215
d) 221 + 126 – 98 e) (498 – 137) + 556 f) (987 – 451) + 221

Q4 Lisa has 38 marbles, John has 52 marbles and Bina has 65 marbles.
How many marbles do they have altogether?

Q5 An art club has £2146 in the bank. It spends £224 on art supplies.
How much money does it have left?

Q6 The village of Great Missingham has a population of 1845.

The neighbouring village of Fentley has a population of 1257.
How many more people live in Great Missingham than Fentley?

8 Section 1 Non-Calculator Arithmetic