How do I find the difference between numbers?

Question

Is finding the difference between numbers just a matter of subtraction? If I wanted to find the difference between 3 and 8, do I just subtract 3 from 8 to get 5? What if I wanted to know how much bigger 8 is than 3? Do I divide 8, the bigger number, by 3, the smaller number to get 2.6? If so, does that mean 8 is 2.6 times bigger than 3?

Answer 1

You subtract the smaller number from the bigger number. So the difference between 8 and 3 is 5.



8 is 2.6 times bigger than three, but we don't call that the difference.

Answer 2

Difference simply means subtraction.



Difference between three and eight is 8 - 3 = 5.

To find out how much bigger 8 is than three, 8 - 3 = 5, this is difference.

Answer 3

yes the difference is just the subtraction of the two, and yes 8 is 2.6 times bigger than 3

Answer 4

Both phrases "difference" and "how much bigger" usually imply subtraction, only. It is theoretically valid to talk about a number being "2.6 times bigger" but that is a human use of the word 'bigger' - not a mathematical construct.

Answer 5

8 - 3 = 5

3 - 8 = -5





this is what u want ?