6th Grade Math - Subtracting Multi-Digit Decimals

Elliot bought coffee drinks from a famous coffee shop. The first two drinks cost him and he paid a total of . How much did the third drink cost?

Explanation

To find the cost of the third drink, you must subtract the total cost by the cost of the two drinks.

Subtract:

Explanation

Rewrite adding the correct number of placeholders and evaluate.

Explanation

We first subtract the hundredths place:

Then the tenths place: Since is less than , we have to borrow from the , the becomes a and the becomes :

Then the ones place:

So the final answer is .

What is ?

Explanation

removed from results in the whole integer .

Find the difference.

Explanation

Finding a difference means to subtract.

In the hundredths column, we can easily subtract .

In the tenths column we must borrow from the 7 (making it 6) and also making the 2 a 12. Now we can subtract .

Finally in the ones column we can subtract .

Thus the final answer is 1.43.

Shawn bought two coats at the jacket store for . He returned one of the two coats the next day and received back on his credit card. How much did the other coat cost?

Explanation

In order to find the cost of the coat that Shawn kept you must subtract the amount of money that went back on his credit card from the total that he spent on the two coats.

Explanation

We first subtract the hundredths place:

Then the tenths place: Since is less than , we have to borrow from the , the becomes a and the becomes :

Then the ones place: , since the is less than , we have to borrow from the , the becomes is the tens place, and the becomes in the ones place:

So the final answer is .

Menu 1

The above is a menu at the concession stand at a drive-in movie. The stand also offers a special "Meal Deal": a hamburger or a hot dog, a medium order of fries, and a medium soda for .

Randy orders two Meal Deals - a hamburger Meal Deal for himself and a hot dog Meal Deal for his friend Denise. How much more would he have paid for the items separately?

(Ignore tax)

Explanation

The two Meal Deals cost $$ 8 \times 2 = $16$ .

Purchased separately, the hamburger would have cost $4.89; the hot dog, $4.39; each of the two medium orders of fries, $2.79; and each of the two medium sodas, $1.69. The total price of the items, purchased separately, would have been