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Why is it important to line up decimal numbers by their place value when you add or subtract them
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Why is it important to line up decimal numbers by their place value when you add or subtract them

Why is it important to line up decimal numbers by their place value when you add or-example-1
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So that you dont add up the whole number to the decimal part
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So that you don't add the whole number to the the decimal by accident... For example: .04+ 1.0 = 1.04 but if you didn't line up the decimals and you only lined up the numbers you would have .14
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