Arithmetic Grade Six

Lesson Sixty-six: Decimal Subtraction

Here's another sample problem: 


      3.41
    -  .56
   ---------
To complete this problem we will first have to do the following:
  1. Subtract the digits in the hundredths column
  2. Subtract the digits in the tenths column
But before you can subtract we must borrow. 

      2 13 11
      3.41
    -  .56
   ---------
      2.85

The decimal point drops straight down from the problem to the answer.

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