Question

Shekhar is a famous cricket player. He has so far scored $6980$ runs in test matches. He wishes to complete $10000$ runs. How many more runs does he need?

Answer 1

Hint: In this question we have been given with the data that Shekhar has so far scored a total of $6980$ runs from test matches. We have to find how many more runs he needs to complete a total of $10000$ runs. We will solve this question by first writing the data given to us as and then we will use subtraction to find the number of runs required by subtracting the current total of runs from the target runs.

Complete step by step answer:
We know from the question that Shekhar has so far scored a total of $6980$ runs in test matches.
He wishes to complete a total of $10000$ runs.
Now since the target is given and the current total is given, we will get the required number of runs by subtracting the current total from the target.
Mathematically, we get the expression as:
$\Rightarrow 10000-6980$
On subtracting the terms, we get:
$\Rightarrow 3020$, which is the required number of runs Shekhar needs to complete a total of $1000$ runs, which is the required solution.

Note: It is to be remembered that when subtracting two numbers, the number subtracted should be the smaller number out of the two because subtraction is only possible when a smaller quantity is removed from a bigger quantity otherwise the result becomes a negative number and runs cannot be negative.