How do you simplify $5.91 + 2.38$ $5.91+2.38$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-04T03:55:36

8.29

We can add them this way:

$5^{1} .91$ $5^(1).91$
$ul(2color(white)(0).38)$
$8color(white)(0).29$

See that when adding the 9 and 3 together $(9+3=12)$ we wrote down the 2 and carried over the 1.

How do you simplify 5.91+2.385.91+2.385.91+2.38?