Adding Money

Adding money involves combining the values of different amounts of money to find the total amount. When adding money, it's important to keep track of the different denominations (such as dollars and cents) and align the decimal points for accurate addition.

Here's a step-by-step process for adding money:

1. Align the decimal points: When adding amounts of money, it's important to align the decimal points to ensure that the cents are added to the cents and the dollars to the dollars.
2. Add the cents: Start by adding the cents of the amounts together. If the sum of the cents is greater than 100, regroup the extra cents as dollars and carry over the remaining cents.
3. Add the dollars: Next, add the dollars together, including any carried over dollars from the previous step.
4. Combine the total: Finally, combine the total dollars and cents to find the overall sum of the money.

For example, if you need to add $15.75 and $8.50 together, the process would look like this:

So, the total sum of $15.75 and $8.50 is $24.25.

It's important to practice adding money to become more familiar with the process and gain confidence in working with different amounts of money.

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