Question

Santa had no money left. Santa received two bills today. One bill was for $65, and the other bill was for $149. How much money does Santa have now?

Answer 1

To determine how much money Santa has we need to add the bills, this means that we need to do the addition:

`65+149`

To do this addition we write in the appropiate form, this is shown below:

Now that we have the addition written correctly we add 5 and 9, the result is 14. We write the 4 under them in the sum above and we need to carry the one.

After this we need to add 6 and 4 and the number we carried from the previous step, then we add 6, 4 and 1; the result is 11. We write the one below the 6 and the four in the addition and carry a one.

Finally we add what we carried with the one we have, the result is two and we write it below the one.

Hence the result is 214.

The steps described above are shown in the following picture:

Therefore, Santa has $214 after he received the bills.