shortage Why can't producers increase supply if there is a sudden increase in demand? you would have to increase the price as well because otherwise it would cost too much to increase supply
Subtraction. In subtraction, a subtrahend is subtracted from a minuend to find a difference. In the following equation, 9 is the minuend, 3 is the subtrahend, and 6 is the difference.
The historical name subtraction -- literally, taken away from below -- referred to a specific written method, namely writing the smaller number (the subtrahend) under the larger (the minuend), and executing the method. However, that is not the only way of finding the difference of two numbers.