{"id":4577,"date":"2013-06-29T06:49:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=4577"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:26:01","slug":"word-problems-and-subtraction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/word-problems-and-subtraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtraction Word Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Subtraction Word Problems<\/h1>\n<p>When working on a word problem, there are several words that can cue you in on the fact that you will be subtracting. Some of these words and phrases include: difference, less than, decreased by, and fewer. For example, if the question says, &#8220;Six less than a number is 8. What is the number?&#8221; you would need to figure out what number minus 6 equals 8. An easy way to solve this is to simply add 8 + 6 to get the answer 14.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Word Problems and Subtraction\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_jTX0FgDK-40\"><div id=\"lyte_jTX0FgDK-40\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FjTX0FgDK-40%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Word Problems and Subtraction<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jTX0FgDK-40\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FjTX0FgDK-40%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Word Problems and Subtraction\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subtraction Word Problems When working on a word problem, there are several words that can cue you in on the fact that you will be subtracting. Some of these words and phrases include: difference, less than, decreased by, and fewer. For example, if the question says, &#8220;Six less than a number is 8. What is &#8230; <a title=\"Subtraction Word Problems\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/word-problems-and-subtraction\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Subtraction Word Problems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-4577","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_type-video"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52958,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4577\/revisions\/52958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}