Adding Tenths and Hundredths

Adding tenths and hundredths is very similar to adding whole numbers. One must line up the numbers by place value to get the correct sum.

The illustrations below show how tenths can also be written as hundredths:

Three tenths animation

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Thirty hundredths animation

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Two tenths animation

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Twenty hundredths animation

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Five Tenths Animation

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Fifty tenths animation

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Notice how the use of zeros helps in lining up the numbers by place value correctly.

0.4

0.40

Zero and four tenths or forty hundredths

1

1.00

One or one and zero hundredths

0.51

0.51

Zero and fifty-one hundredths

1.91

1.91

One and ninety-one hundredths

 

 

 

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