52304-34222

The expression you've provided appears to be a subtraction problem between two five-digit numbers:

52,304 minus 34,222 equals?

To solve it, you subtract the smaller number from the larger one:

52,304

• 34,222

Starting from the rightmost digit, you subtract each digit in each column:

4 - 2 = 2 0 - 2 cannot be done as 0 is smaller than 2, so you need to borrow from the next column to the left.

Having borrowed 1 from the hundreds column, your tens column now effectively has 10:

(10 + 0) - 2 = 10 - 2 = 8

After you borrowed 1 from the hundreds column, it now has 2 instead of 3:

2 - 4 cannot be done as 2 is smaller than 4, so again you need to borrow from the next column to the left.

Now the thousands column effectively has a 1 (since we borrowed 1), making the hundreds column 12:

(12 + 2) - 4 = 12 - 4 = 8

Next, you borrowed from the ten-thousands column, so it now has 4 instead of 5:

4 - 3 = 1

So after performing the subtraction, the solution is:

52,304

• 34,222

18,082

The result of 52,304 minus 34,222 is 18,082.