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Lesson 3: Subtracting decimals (hundredths)- Subtracting decimals: 9.57-8.09
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Subtracting decimals: 9.57-8.09
To find the least common denominator of two fractions, we can either list out the multiples of the two denominators until we find a common one, or use prime factorization. Once we've found the least common denominator, we can rewrite the fractions so they both have this denominator, and then add them together. Created by Sal Khan.
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- Here's a question, what's 95.23 minus 56.54? This may be easy to know so here it is! You take away the two to make it into one, and the three becomes 13 so 13 minus 4 is 9. You take away one number from five to four and then the one becomes into 11, and, 11 minus 5 is 6. You take away one number from nine to eight and the 4 becomes into 14, so 14 minus 6 equals 8. This is the last and most simple but not least, 8 minus 5 and it's 3! So, the answer was 38.69, and there it is!(4 votes)
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- Like any regular subtraction problem, you will subtract right to left.(3 votes)
Video transcript
Let's try to subtract
9.57 minus 8.09. So try to pause this video
and figure this out first before we work
through it together. All right. Well, let's just rewrite it. Let's rewrite it. And when I rewrite it, I
like to line up the decimals. This one it's a
little intuitive. We have 8.09. Just like that, and now
we're ready to subtract. And we want to subtract 9
hundredths from 7 hundredths. Well, we don't have
enough hundredths up here so let's move over here. Let's see if we can do some
regrouping so we always have a higher number on top. So over here we want to
subtract 0 tenths from 5 tenths so we have enough
tenths over here. So let's regroup. So instead of 5 tenths,
I'm going to have 4 tenths, and then I'm going to give
that other tenth, which is the same thing as 10
hundredths over here, so this becomes 17 hundredths. 17 minus 9 is 8. 4 minus 0 is 4. And then I have 9 minus 8 is 1. So this is going to be 1.48.